Workshops / Intensives (Spring 2010)

Forthcoming...

Workshop With Charlie Morrissey - SUN 28 March (1.15 - 5.00pm)

Mass and Orbit - This workshop explores ways in which we can tune ourselves to a relaxed, alert and fluid approach to movement. Moving alone and with a partner or partners.

Gravity and weight, energy and momentum will be explored via different pathways into and out of the floor and up into space, on our own and with others, to facilitate lively, responsive, fluid and integrated movement.

We will look at how we can commit the mass of our bodies to space and remain open and responsive to the different choices on offer to us, to enable the fullest participation in the moment to moment dialogues we have with our own bodies and with those of our partners. Anatomical imagery, technical exercises and work with the senses will provide materials to facilitates a deeper relationship with the internal and external movement that drives and supports our motion through space and informs our ability to participate more fully in satisfying and surprising dancing.

The workshop will involve solo and partnering work.

Bio:

Charlie Morrissey is a performer, teacher, director and researcher. He has been working in the UK and in many other countries around the world for 20 years. He creates large and small-scale site-specific and theatre and gallery based performance work in diverse contexts working with set and improvised materials. His teaching is informed by ongoing and long-term collaborative working relationships with Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Scott Smith, Kirstie Simson, K.J.Holmes and many others. Charlie is part of the trio Moving Men with Jean-Hughes Miredin and Adrian Russi who have been teaching and performing together across Europe since 2007. He co-organises a group called Movement 12 in Brighton – a group of dance artists who curate an international professional development programme for dance artists. Find out more about them at www.movement12.org. Charlie is an Associate Artist of South East Dance. You can find out more on his website: www.charliemorrissey.com.

Venue for workshop

West Oxford Community Centre, Botley Road,Oxford OX2 0BT

Cost:

£15 (£12 concessions)

NB: To book for the workshop, please contact Claire Thompson - e-mail: cthompson@oxford.gov.uk or tel: 01865 252820