At Chisenhale Dance Space
Sat 14th Nov 13.00-19.00
Sun 15th Nov 13.00 - 19.00

£187.20 Early Bird Fee
(until 14th September)
£212.85 Standard Fee
(both fees may fluctuate due to exchange rate)

ALL LEVELS

This workshop is open to anyone with a particular interest in the moving body, its expression and its skill development. We welcome practitioners from all ages and backgrounds.

CONTENT

Moving is one of the most direct ways we experience ourselves and the world. And yet, moving freely and skilfully is becoming more and more distant from the way many of us live.

Many people train strength, flexibility, dance, acrobatics, martial arts, yoga, or other physical disciplines, but still don’t feel fully available in their bodies. They may be strong but not fluid. Flexible but not coordinated. Technical but not free. Expressive but not grounded.

THE QUALITY OF MOVING IS

a workshop about bridging these gaps through movement practice.

In this workshop, quality is not about showing off. It is not about copying an impressive body or reaching a perfect form. Quality is the attention within the action. The timing of a fall. The way we receive the floor. The way we use strength without becoming rigid. The way we stay available when situations change.

We will work between discipline and art, between the technical and the natural, between training and play. The aim is not to collect more movements, but to become more connected inside the movements we already have, and more prepared for the ones we have not yet met.

We don’t mix disciplines for variety. We use them to study relationship, adaptability, and quality. To find universal principles of movement.The body already carries a history: previous training, habits, instincts, injuries, fears, imagination. The practice is not to erase this history, but to bring it into the work and let it become useful.