Guest Artist Workshop with Mary Prestidge

Description

What is at the core of what we do?

A time for sharing experiences and supporting our dance practice. Offering compositional devices to organise improvisations: interactive and playful!

A chunk of time in this session will be devoted to moving and sensing our bodies;  giving into and playing with the forces of gravity and momentum, for example, noticing what arises in our thoughts and imagination.

Do come with some of the questions you might have within the context in which you work?

Looking forward to meeting and dancing with you all!

Mary Prestidge has been evolving a dance practice for over 50 years. She performed with Ballet Rambert in the early 1970’s but later gravitated toward an independent context with artists giving space and support to experimentation and research. Mary was a co founder of the radical X6 Dance Space and collective and its successor Chisenhale Dance Space in London in the late 70’s and 80’s.   Specific influences were the improvisational forms via the lineages of Steve Paxton, Mary Fulkerson, Lisa Nelson and others.  Based in Liverpool since 1995 Mary teaches and continues movement and performance research both with her dance collaborators and with others in a diverse range of contexts and communities.