Through hands-on activities, moving/dancing, drawing/writing the class is a journey through the anatomical landscapes of the body. The aim is to create a space in which each mover develops one's own interpretation of the tasks offered. By understanding the personal need in each given moment, the invitation is to satisfy the individual curiosity for movement.

We will explore sensing as discovering, moving as a tool for learning and reflecting, dancing as both rest and a highly dynamic activity. The main fields of exploration are: Experiential Anatomy, Authentic Movement and Improvisation. If the weather allows, classes will include outdoors activities to encourage links between the environment and the living body.

Tim Ingold - Social Anthropologist (PAL talk)

Materials, movements, lines

Social Anthropologist Tim Ingold’s  interests lie in establishing an approach to creativity and perception which is capable of bringing together the movements of making, observing and describing. He attempts to refocus the study of material culture, from ready-made objects onto the circulations of materials that these processes entail.

In this talk he will explore the generative dynamics of skilled practices that – in the very precision they seek – are bound to respond to moment-by-moment variations in the environmental conditions of their enactment. By considering the potential of drawing as a method and a technique much neglected in recent scholarship, Tim aims to reconnect observation and description with the movements of improvisatory practice.

Crossing Borders
Open to all | 4 Oct - 13 Dec | Tues, 7 – 8.30pm
PAL talks £6 / £4 concession per talk I CB talks £5 / £3 freelance dance artists and concessions per talk

A series of conversations with artists whose particular practice has led them beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries, offering fresh vantage points on artistic practice, ideas and working environment. In partnership with graduate school of LCDS.

This year Crossing Borders includes a series of conversations with distinguished guests from beyond Dance, as part of the ‘Movement and Meaning Lab’ programme produced by PAL and led by Gill Clarke. With generous support from Arts Council England, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Jerwood Charitable Foundation. www.pallabs.org.

To book: 020 7091 9650 / info@independentdance.co.uk