Gill Clarke
Class description
Morning Professional Class:
Begins from visualisation of skeletal connections and use of the breath to open pathways of energy through the body. We then move on to the exploration of set material, focusing on clarifying awareness of movement through the body and into space, playing with weight shifts, quality, and timing. The aim is always to go beyond learning material to the dancing of it!
Delving Deeper:
Critical Feedback - A practical workshop based on the Liz Lerman approach to giving and receiving feedback led by Gill Clarke
Are you often in the position of needing to give feedback on choreographic work? Or are you an artist wondering how to get the most out of a feedback or mentoring opportunity? Then this session might give you some tools and a chance to practice with some colleagues.
A workshop day introducing the Liz Lerman approach to giving and receiving choreographic feedback and considering how feedback can be used constructively to support our development as artist, choreographer or teacher. Within the session there will be plenty of opportunity to work together in practicing the framework in relation to live choreographic work.
Biography
Gill studied English and Education at York University and has spent her career as an Independent Dance Artist performer, teacher, choreographer/director, advocate.
A founder member of the Siobhan Davies Dance Company she was recipient of a London Dance and Performance Award. As a freelance performer she has worked with other choreographers and companies including Janet Smith, Rosemary Butcher, Rosemary Lee.
Recent projects have included directing site-specific movement installations, collaborating with composers and choreographing for the Gandini Juggling Project.
'Teaching has always been an integral part of my dance practice, developing alongside my own performing and my own learning and exploration. My teaching has been influenced by study of Alexander and Feldenkrais Techniques, Klein Technique (especially through Jeremy Nelson) and by my own ongoing curiosity with mind and body in motion.'
- Watch a clip of Gill teaching
Duration
1 minute 48 seconds
Filmed by Becky Edmunds