This workshop explores healthy approaches toward dancing and living that participants can integrate into their own practices.
We will explore how embodied intelligence and imagination offer an innovative framework within which we can listen to the innate abilities of the body, driving towards wholeness, balance, creativity & healing.
This 2-day workshop is an opportunity to incorporate movement and discussion with creative and therapeutic explorations, improvisational scores, experiential journeying and concepts from philosophy; experiencing how they can be interwoven into an embodied learning process.
The sessions will offer valuable information for dancers, artists, movement and health practitioners of all experience levels and ability.
During the workshop Charlie and Kirstie will offer:
- Facilitated warmups and hands-on bodywork
- Movement scores – solo and collaborative
- Discussions with a focus towards sharing issues of creative well-being, sustainability, and growth
- Journaling and reflective practices
- Tasters of experiential biomechanics and movement patterns to embody sustainable movement approaches that can be integrated into dancing and daily life
Charlie Brittain (UK) is a dancer, teacher, choreographer and rehearsal director whose passion lies in empowering others to take ownership of their practice and champion their values through dancing. He continues to perform internationally with dance companies, independent projects and in collaboration with other artists alongside his choreographic work, which looks to the processes and innate wisdom of the body as a vehicle for learning and a means to extrapolate compositional methods. Charlie is a sought-after rehearsal director and choreographic facilitator working across a range of artistic environments and ventures as well as a passionate teacher, regularly invited to lead classes and workshops for dance companies, educational institutes and festivals worldwide. He integrates his art with his practice as a bodyworker, sports rehabilitator, musculoskeletal health specialist and integrative health practitioner, specialising in the treatment, rehabilitation and education of dancers and movement practitioners as well as lecturing and examining on higher education programs in the U.K. and Europe.
Kirstie Simson (UK) has been a continuous explosion in the contemporary dance scene, bringing audiences into contact with the vitality of pure creation in moment after moment of virtuoso improvisation. Called “a force of nature” by the New York Times, she is an award-winning dancer and teacher who has “immeasurably enriched and expanded the boundaries of New Dance” according to Time Out Magazine, London. Kirstie is renowned today as an excellent teacher, a captivating performer and a leading light in the field of Dance Improvisation. She recently retired after thirteen years working as a professor of dance at the University of Illinois. She currently resides in Wales and continues to teach and perform in the UK & internationally.