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INNERSCAPES24th – 28th March 2008 Wexford Ireland |
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Contact
Composition Technique |
Release-based
Morning Class |
DETAILS
OF WORKSHOPS + BIOGRAPHIES |
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| Wolfgang
Hoffman – Contact Improvisation Biography: Wolfgang is Artistic Director of the Dublin Fringe Festival and the Aurora Nova Programme at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 1990, he co-founded the Fabrik Postdam in Germany, where he worked as a dancer, choreographer and Artistic Director for 14 years. His work has toured extensively to over 20 countries. |
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Description: Contact Improvisation In this workshop Wolfgang will focus on the nonverbal communication aspect of our dance. What do we say or refuse to say with our movement and how do we listen and understand our partner? Working with harmonies and conflict, over- and understatement and a range of emotional and energetic qualities, class participants will aim to understand more about their own intentions and ability to communicate with them. This class should be a lot of fun, as all participants will have an intense learning experience through playing freely with one another. |
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| Niamh
Condron – Constant Composition Technique Biography: From Dublin, Niamh, has a BA in Dance with Distinction that majored in choreography (1999) from Northern School of Contemporary Dance, UK. Since graduating she has worked as a dancer with Scott Wells & Dancers Company; San Francisco, Justin Morrison; San Diego, Irish Modern Dance Theatre; Dublin, Sioned Hews Dance Company; Belgium, Earthfall Physical Theatre; Wales, The Curve Foundation; Scotland and Dance Theatre of Ireland; Dublin. In 2001, Niamh won a scholarship for emerging dance artists to train at the Impulstanz Festival, Vienna, and soon after established This Torsion Dance Theatre Company, www.thistorsion.com. She has made creations combining dance with live music and text for numerous theatres, festivals and alternative performance spaces in Ireland and abroad. She trains regularly around the world with prestigious teachers in Ballet, Release based Contemporary, Improvisation, BodyMindCentering, Alexander and Yoga techniques. Niamh is also, for 3 years, the Artistic Director of Vibrate Dance Festival in Ireland. |
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Descriptions: Release Based contemporary class works on developing physical strength and flexibility specific for dancers and students working with the body as an instrument for expression. The class progresses through body awareness work, floor work for warming up and exercising joints and muscles, standing sequences, moving phrases in space and finally a dance phrase. The class is geared at working in a soft and strong way so that there is the least amount of undue stress and strain placed on the body resulting in a larger possibility for movement. Constant Composition dance technique class is a class that frees the body's natural potential for pure dancing and invites instant creation from each student. The class begins with physical self awareness and quieting work which moves on to structured authentic movement forms and contact work and finally dancing in solos, duets, trios and groups with a heightened awareness of choreographic choices. The class encourages; a grounding of the body through development of kinetic awareness and physical structure and works on creating an understanding of space and time within choreography. The Release Class and Constant Composition combine methods from Niamh's 10 year background in ballet, contemporary, release, contact, Body- Mind-Centering, Alexander and yoga techniques. |
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| Deirdre
Grant Biography: Deirdre Grant is co-founder of Myriad Dance and has been Artistic Director since 1999, where she has been at the forefront of developing Contemporary Dance regionally in Ireland. Deirdre has developed a reputation for producing flexible exciting professional work in widely varying performance settings over a10 year period – theatre, outdoors, site-specific and adapted non-traditional spaces for audiences both regionally around Ireland.Her choreographic credits with the company include works: Broken Masque' 1999, Together from Shortcuts & Storylines', 2000, In an Instant, 2001, Adventures in E < motional Pictures', 2002, Scramble'2002, Rainbow' 2003, and Mutation in 2004, ‘Ruins’ 2007 . Deirdre is now developing strands for the company that promote a deeper understanding of the body based on somatic studies & cellular work and where the body is a resourceful intelligent & communicative tool both for movement investigation and presentation. |
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Description: Body & Text Deirdre will lead 2 playful improvisations sessions for all body-based performers, utilising work from her experiences of Body-Mind-Centering & Authentic Movement practices, with reference to her latest choreography ‘Authenticity’. In these workshops, Deirdre will encourage participants to observe, witness, define and craft their movement, playing with reality versus fantasy, interwoven with layers of text, spoken, written and devised on the days. These two short improvisations will be of interest to both dancers & actors. |
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| Aine
Stapleton & Emma Fitzgerald Biographies: Aine Stapleton is from Wicklow. She has a distinction in Dance and Performing Arts from Inchicore College Dublin, and furthered her training at the University of Surrey in London, where she achieved a First Class BA Honours Degree in Dance Studies in 2004. Choreographies include Out of Darkness by Ex Tenebris, directed by Eric Fradd, Shove and Life on Four Legs with dance artist Shelly Herring, and Blink White with Jessica Kennedy (Junk Ensemble). Performances include Romeo & Juliet at the Abbey Theatre, directed by Jason Byrne, Behindtheeyeliesbone and Adaptation of a Meeting by Ella Clarke (Myriad Dance), Ruins and Mutation by Deirdre Grant (Myriad Dance), and Daniel Figgis’s The Banquet choreographed by Junk Ensemble. Aine recently commissioned eminent American dance artists choreography The Runner, and is funded by Wexford County Council and the Irish Arts Council to create her own solo adaptation of the work. This is in association with Genesis Project, Dublin, directed by Ella Clarke and Julie Lockett. Emma Fitzgerald is a dance artist, choreographer and writer. Her work has been performed in New York, London and Dublin. She trained at one of Europe’s leading conservatoires, the London Contemporary Dance School. She has had the pleasure of working with several key figures in the contemporary dance scene both in Ireland and abroad including Ella Clarke (Irl.), Cindy Cummings (Irl.) Charles Linehan (U.K.) and Jan de Schynkel (U.K.) amongst others. In 2004 she began working with internationally renowned choreographer and performer Deborah Hay. Hay has mentored Fitzgerald in developing three solo works for performance and encouraged her to write extensively about her experiences as a dancer and choreographer. Fitzgerald’s writing on her work with Hay has been published in the D.H.D.C. Dance Journal. Earlier this year she was received an Incubation Space Award from Dublin City Council, which has allowed her to work intensively on developing her collaborative relationship with Regan O’Brien. |
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Description: Studio & site specific The aim of this workshop is to discuss, create and see movement from different perspectives. The group will be asked to venture site specific and draw their movement impetus from places of diverse angles and heights. We will explore and define how to accomplish working within these parameters, placing emphasis on how and what we want their audience to see. |
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| Deirdre
O’Connor – Yoga ~ Dance Biography: Yoga Training in philosophy and full spectrum yoga 1990/91 in the Bihar School of Yoga, India. Extensive meditation training and philosophy with both Eastern and Western teachers, including teachers of the Dalai Lama. Two year training in Dancing The Rainbow, a creative and self development programme integrating movement, yoga,dance and voice. A further two years study with mentor and trainer of Dancing The Rainbow leading to Teacher Trainer statusYoga Teacher Training Diploma with Shiva Rea in America Currently studying voice expression and release with Chloe Goodchild of Naked Voice in a three-year programme Also trained in Cranial-Sacral Therapy |
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Description: Yoga~Dance - a synthesis of free-flow yoga infused with creative dance. Having found the forms of yoga can often be restricting and cumbersome for most people I developed a way of working that helped them become more comfortable with the inner movements of body and breath, leading to a more embodied way of approaching movement and dance. As we follow our breath in our yoga practice we drop into a quieter and more instinctual way of moving and allow ourselves to follow our intuitive and creative bodies. Following our internal instincts to move and express we engage much more that the physical body ~ we begin to engage our emotive bodies thus leading us to new ways of expressing and ultimately new ways of being with ourselves. Our internal movements are encouraged into form by breath release techniques, a deep meditative inner listening and emotive world music. |
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