One event on September 23, 2023 at 12:30 pm
One event on October 28, 2023 at 9:30 am
One event on November 18, 2023 at 12:30 pm
One event on January 6, 2024 at 12:30 pm
One event on February 10, 2024 at 12:30 pm
One event on March 9, 2024 at 12:30 pm
With an increasing capacity to concentrate, to listen to inner impulse, the mover learns to recognise the channel within which the creative or authentic energy flows. – Janet Adler (1987)*
Penny Collinson and Amy Voris are offering a series of seven professional development workshops for movement/dance practitioners to support the exploration of spontaneously-emerging movement and inner-witnessing skills.
The series will have an overall focus on ‘tracking’ bodily experience. The explorations will draw on somatically-informed methods from Experiential Anatomy and the mover-witness framework (also known as ‘Authentic Movement’). Each workshop will offer an investigation of a different ‘channel’ or realm of perception. The series will follow an overall progression from working with sensation, and how sensation accompanies movement, into awareness of emotion, image, and story. Each channel will be explored with some guidance/definition in relation to what it may encompass, while also supporting participants to source the style and depth of descriptive language which resonates with their own experience. Movement explorations will seek to illuminate the richness that attending to these realms (both distinctly and in conjunction with each other) can bring to our subjective and collective realities. In this sense, we understand ‘tracking’ to be a process of attending which evolves from the moment of moving into the process of shared-reflection.
Within each workshop we will shift between somatically-informed solo movement and reflection, simple hands-on (or touch) work in pairs, and group moving and witnessing explorations. Each day aims to offer movement/reflective frameworks for participants to listen into and work with their individual inquiries and needs, while acknowledging the companionship of others. We hope that the activities offered will create space for attuning to your movement, energy and imagination and for cultivating internal resources.
Who is it for?
Movement practitioners who work within teaching, therapeutic as well as creative and performative contexts. Please note that this series is suitable for those with prior experience of in-depth somatic movement processes.
Practicalities
The workshops will take place monthly between June 2023-March 2024 in Lancaster and Cheshire, with an introductory (or ‘taster’) session on Sunday 25 June 2023. Participants are encouraged to attend the introductory workshop and can sign up for the entire series or for stand-alone sessions. See below for the dates, location and theme of each workshop:
Locations
The River Room, Halton Mill, Mill Lane, Halton (near Lancaster) LA2 6ND
OR
Cheshire Dance, Winsford Library, High Street, Winsford, Cheshire CW7 2AS
Payment
Full series cost: £385.00 waged / £315.00 unwaged. (Payment in instalments is possible – contact the Amy/Penny to arrange)
Cost per workshop: £55.00 waged / £45.00 unwaged
For enquiries, contact:
Penny: hello@pennycollinson.com or Amy: info@amyvoris.com
For bookings, contact:
Amy: info@amyvoris.com
(Photo credit: Christian Kipp)
