Robert Anderson
Class description
Arriving into a sensitized-grounded-centred self, we’ll expand awareness and movement into space and composition. Entering the ‘open score’ of group improvisation, we’ll practice shifting our attention between witnessing and action using both vision and touch. As we attune to the dance of the ensemble we’ll focus on how we support the space. Maybe less is more, stillness as valuable as movement? We’ll look at ideas of the tableau, of flocking and swarming as techniques for sculpting and enlivening space.
Biography
Robert Anderson is an independent dance artist based in London. He teaches improvisation and contact improvisation in Higher Education and in a variety of settings in the UK and abroad.
Robert has studied dance improvisation for 11 years with leading teachers from the US and Europe (including Kirsty Simson, Angus Balbernie, Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, KJ Holmes, Steve Paxton, Julyen Hamilton, Ray Chung).
After gaining a BA Dance and Culture at the University of Surrey, in 2000, he spent six months in San Francisco to train in contact and improvisational dance. Since 2001 Robert has been teaching and facilitating contact improvisation classes, jams and workshops in London. Robert has taught at international improvisation festivals in Germany, Israel, Poland, Russia and Italy and participated in co-teaching gatherings in Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Scotland and Austria. He was a curator for the CI36 celebration in Pennsylvania (2008) and part of the organising team for ecite09 in Ormskirk, England (2009).
He has performed in work by Joe Moran, Kate Brown, Tino Seghal, Jovair Longo, Meghan Flannigan, Margot Henderson, Lalitaraja and Sarah Shorten. He currently performs with Touchdown Dance and the improvisation collective SoFt. His classes invite a sense of pleasure, play and poetry for the dancing body.
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Duration
1 minute 32 seconds
Filmed by Becky Edmunds