dance feel connect

Description

This class combines contemporary/lyrical style movement, which emphasises alignment, weight transfer, fluidity, gravity and momentum, with improvised, unchoreographed movement. Tuning our attention to how we move allows for a deep and personal connection to the dance. In allowing movement to emerge spontaneously, we can find more freedom of expression. Tuning our attention to others and the music can offer up new movement material enabling us to sense, discover and compose together.  The workshop promises to be playful, engaging, and accessible.

Penny Collinson has lived and worked in Lancaster and Morecambe for over 30 years, she is a dance practitioner and Somatic Movement Therapist. Her first job was with Ludus in 1992 as a contemporary dancer, and she went on to perform with various company’s plus make her own solo work, with theatre director, Mark Whitelaw. Penny works in community settings, such as Morecambe Pain Café (Stanley’s), and the River Room (Moving into Awareness). She is a mentor and supervisor for movement therapists and teachers whose work is somatic-informed, and has recently co-created the Community Interest Company, Shoreline Health in Movement, CIC with other local practitioners. She led the MA Dance & Somatic Wellbeing: Connections to the Living Body at UCLan and has written on the application of somatic practice in health https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2869-7132

November 13th and November 2oth

6 pm

The Gregson Centre, Lancaster.

For more information about Penny’s work: Email hello@pennycollinson.com

Phone 07979 445169   www.pennycollinson.com