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2019 WORKSHOPS

 

31 October - Cardiff. For details and booking here

 

Updates on workshop in Reading  Coming Soon

 

 

2018 WORKSHOPS

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23 September 2018   YORKSHIRE DANCE - workshop open to all 10am-4pm - (essential to join 5th Oct performance)

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MAY-AUGUST 2018 - Great Exhibition of the North, Newcastle 

SEE BELOW CALL OUT and further details  Here

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Download the call out here

23 March 2018 at Independent Dance, London

 

JUNE - JULY 2018

Intensive week workshop with final performances - MALTA, Valletta
29 June – 6 July 2018


During this five-day workshop we will explore some of MESH specific ensemble improvisation approaches through both outdoor and indoor practice which will end with two public sharings.

The process will merge Vanessa's choreographic, Contact Improvisation and urban walking practices. We will begin by moving between solo and group explorations, investigating how we can move with an awareness of a coexisting self and a group practice. We will focus on different species of experiential 'edges' and what types of perceptual, kinetic and sensorial investigations might allow us to experience permeability, entanglement, interconnectivity, and interdependence amongst each other, strangers, and the environment. We'll explore and question how far we can extend our sense of 'here' and how our moving can be generous and outward looking. We'll dynamically self-organize to channel, current, weave, and entangle our paths through different spaces as we challenge ourselves to nurture and sustain curiosity in group, collectivity, and interconnection.

Elements of Contact Improvisation will be explored to support different group contact dynamics and formations. We will then focus on practicing specific MESH performative scores in preparation of the two outdoor final informal public sharings, which will be presented in Castille Square and surrounding area overlooking the grand harbour, and will happen parallel to the Dance Studies Association annual conference taking place 5-8 July 2018.

The workshop is open to adults with different levels of movement experience. A good base of Contact Improvisation and a particular interest in outdoor site-responsive work and performance is preferable. Through the week participants will gain skills and develop experience in partnering work, ensemble improvisation, and participatory choreography.

Workshop
29 June - 3 July, 1-6pm, daily in Palazzo Pereira, 224 Republic Street, Valletta
(day off 4 July)

Public sharings on 5 & 6 July (5 July 5-6pm & 6 July from 7-8pm) Valletta locations tbc

Price €140 / €95 early bird booking (before 20 May)

Bookings:
Richard Sarco-Thomas contactfestivaldartington@gmail.com
Additional queries: Malaika Sarco-Thomas Malaika.sarco-thomas@um.edu.mt

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https://valletta2018.org/events/mesh-workshop-with-vanessa-grasse/

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Hosted by Contact Improvisation Malta, this project aims to feature as part of the program for Valletta 2018 Capital of Culture

 

 

 

 

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NOMADS IMPRO

Mesh project is directly linked to Nomads Impro – Regular/monthly collective movement improvisations and flash mob actions in public spaces. JOIN THE FACEBOOK PAGE

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