Shoulder to Shoulder: Nurturing Solo Creative Practice Together
A workshop with Orrow Bell
Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th September 2022
10:30 - 17:00 on Saturday; 10:30 - 16:00 on Sunday
Temperance Hall, Penryn (32 Lower Market St, TR10 8BH)
Join a gathering of artists for a weekend of sharing and feeding your own creative practice, shaking your habits and diving into some fresh approaches.
Developing a solo practice for dance and movement making can be an enriching and yet also sometimes an isolating experience - this workshop looks to create a space for a playful, nurturing and inspiring being-alongside-ness as we delve into and deepen our own individual approaches.
Through a series of co-authored scores and invitations, we’ll swim through possibilities for improvisation, movement making, meaning making, reflection, writing and drawing. We’ll interrogate how a practice of respectful being-alongside can be physicalised. We’ll also dip into shared materials and the knowledge in the group. We’ll invite being seen and feeling keenly. We’ll play.
Each day will start with a warm up session of movement skills and somatic based practice which opens space for individual exploration. Starting with the breath, the core and opening the senses to find energetic connections through the body, the beginning of the day will suggest a development that echoes co-ordination patterning as we grow from the horizontal to the vertical. Time is given to listening and allowing sound into the body, to the repetition of functional and fluid floorwork units, to improvised moments and to expansive travelling, building imaginative complexity. Attention is given to momentum, awareness and individual discovery within the shared framework.
The workshop imagines solo practice as an ongoing question rather than as a known quantity. You don’t need to know what your practice is or might be, but rather come with curiosity to find out more. Professional dance and movement-based artists with burgeoning and established practices are warmly welcome.
