Join this workshop for all ages, leading you through gentle movement improvisations and simple exercises.
The workshop will be facilitated by Yael Flexer, drawing inspiration from their production, Imagining Otherwise.
The class will focus on developing an awareness of our anatomy, cultivating a connection to our bodies and each other using imagery and playful exploration. Starting with personal movement exploration improvisation, and developing into work in duets and groups.
The second section of the workshop leads participants through a simple set exercises followed by playful improvisational and compositional scores.
This workshop is accessible to adults of all ages, without or with dance experience. Yael will be around following the workshop for further conversations about the workshop and/or show for any interested participants.
Yael Flexer
Co-artistic director of Flexer & Sandiland with digital artist Nic Sandiland Yael originally formed the company as Choreographer in Residence at The Place Theatre, London. To date she has created 15 full-length productions, touring throughout the UK and internationally. Live and/or digital commissions include works for: Brighton Festival, Brighton Digital Festival, Hull Dance, South East Dance, Sadler’s Wells, Barbican Centre & Birdmask. Current touring productions include the immersive interactive live work Imagining Otherwise & intergenerational Acting Our Age (made with Israeli choreographer Galit Liss) as well as the touring installations An Elevated Platform and An Obscure Camera. Recent productions and commissions include Curiouser (2020) co-produced with dybwikdans, Norway, movement direction for artist Rita Evans (Towner Gallery), new works and restaging for London Contemporary Dance School, Dance East & Stavanger University, Norway. Flexer & Sandiland run intergenerational classes online and in-studio as partner company at South East Dance, Brighton. Previous company productions include: Disappearing Acts (2016), Weightless (2012-14), The Living Room (2010-2011) and digital works The Hum (2017-2021), Border Control (2022) Weighting (2015-2017), Trip Hazard (2013-ongoing) and Gravity Shift (2010-2017). Commissions as an independent artist include, among others: E-Werk Tanz Festival, Motus Fetival, National Youth Dance Company Scotland, Ludus Dance, Edge, Scottish Dance Theatre, Trinity-Laban, mapdance, Maslool (Israel), Stavanger University (Norway) Encore East, Three Score Dance and numerous youth commissions for C.A.T and independent youth programmes. Yael leads workshops, professional training and mentoring projects in the UK and internationally. A reader in Dance Yael directs mapdance, the University of Chichester’s MA/postgraduate touring company. To find out more see: https://www.flexerandsandiland.com/works https://www.flexerandsandiland.com/classes