A event held at Bristol Old Vic on Monday 17th March. The event starts at 10:00.
GATHER UP invites different Bristol-based practitioners to lead morning classes to support the continuous training and development of experienced movers and professional dance artists. Morning Class takes place weekly on a Monday morning in term time.
Time:
Studio is open from 9.40am, class time is 10-11.30am, with time to stretch and meet 11.30-12noon.
This class will explore how to access surprising movement and sound vocabulary from sensation, both external and internal. I'll be drawing on Body Weather training, somatic practices, and extended vocal technique to improvise from real time touching, seeing and hearing as well as diving into composing from our imagination and fantasy. We will explore imagined landscapes; bogs, mountains, forests, as well as impossible, fantastical realities, unearthing movements from these places and locating them in our own material bodies!
We will explore vocalising as an extension of movement to discover an immediate and total embodiment. I will be inviting participants to use their voices in this class but you certainly don’t need to be able to ‘sing’ or have any prior experience using your voice. We will use touch in this class but alternatives can be found, and everyone will be welcome to work at their own pace and energy level. This class will be relaxed, playful & unpredictable and give opportunities to work solo, in pairs and in groups.
Bio:
www.johellier.co.uk
Jo Hellier is an artist, choreographer, vocalist and performer making experimental performance work across dance, live art and music. Their practice uses improvisation, somatic movement practices and extended vocal technique to amplify awareness in body and imagination. From this place they create abstract, expansive work that intends to disrupt binary thinking. Their work explores queer ecologies and ways to expand and transform relationships between human and nature.
Jo’s work has been commissioned by Jerwood, Artsadmin, In Between Time, SPILL, Bristol Biennial, Buzzcut, Battersea Arts Centre and Bristol Ferment. Their work has been performed across the UK (including BAC, Mayfest, SPILL, Buzzcut, Forest Fringe, In Between Time) and internationally. Jo often dances for, and collaborates with makers and musicians including: Hanna Tuulikki, Simone Kenyon, Louise Ahl, Cade & MacAskill, Verity Standen and Wojciech Rusin.
Access:
Get in touch if you have access needs that we could support you with. Email us at: [email protected]
Creative Audio Description: if you are a visually impaired dancer planning to attend a morning class, you may like to book our free Creative Audio Describer service to provide you with 1-1 support during the class. Please get in touch if you would like to request this support.
Care Pot: the Care Pot exists to offer cash support towards childcare, parking, travel, access or other extra costs that may surround coming to these classes. Take a read and please be in touch with how we could cover some of your extra costs so that you can come along and participate.
Rest: Our spaces are rest welcome. There are various benches, seats and corners in the studio or you are always welcome to leave the studio for a break.
Find out more here: www.gatherup.live
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Image description: Jo is on a mountain, standing up and leaning to her left hinging at the waist, with her arms outstretched over her head. Her eyes are closed and she looks calm, like the wind has blown her over and she's enjoying the feeling. She's got blonde hair, white skin and is wearing a cream wooly jumper and green trousers. There are two other figures in the background.
Image Credit: Felicity Crawshaw
Entry requirements: 18+
Time:
Studio is open from 9.40am, class time is 10-11.30am, with time to stretch and meet 11.30-12noon.
This class will explore how to access surprising movement and sound vocabulary from sensation, both external and internal. I'll be drawing on Body Weather training, somatic practices, and extended vocal technique to improvise from real time touching, seeing and hearing as well as diving into composing from our imagination and fantasy. We will explore imagined landscapes; bogs, mountains, forests, as well as impossible, fantastical realities, unearthing movements from these places and locating them in our own material bodies!
We will explore vocalising as an extension of movement to discover an immediate and total embodiment. I will be inviting participants to use their voices in this class but you certainly don’t need to be able to ‘sing’ or have any prior experience using your voice. We will use touch in this class but alternatives can be found, and everyone will be welcome to work at their own pace and energy level. This class will be relaxed, playful & unpredictable and give opportunities to work solo, in pairs and in groups.
Bio:
www.johellier.co.uk
Jo Hellier is an artist, choreographer, vocalist and performer making experimental performance work across dance, live art and music. Their practice uses improvisation, somatic movement practices and extended vocal technique to amplify awareness in body and imagination. From this place they create abstract, expansive work that intends to disrupt binary thinking. Their work explores queer ecologies and ways to expand and transform relationships between human and nature.
Jo’s work has been commissioned by Jerwood, Artsadmin, In Between Time, SPILL, Bristol Biennial, Buzzcut, Battersea Arts Centre and Bristol Ferment. Their work has been performed across the UK (including BAC, Mayfest, SPILL, Buzzcut, Forest Fringe, In Between Time) and internationally. Jo often dances for, and collaborates with makers and musicians including: Hanna Tuulikki, Simone Kenyon, Louise Ahl, Cade & MacAskill, Verity Standen and Wojciech Rusin.
Access:
Get in touch if you have access needs that we could support you with. Email us at: [email protected]
Creative Audio Description: if you are a visually impaired dancer planning to attend a morning class, you may like to book our free Creative Audio Describer service to provide you with 1-1 support during the class. Please get in touch if you would like to request this support.
Care Pot: the Care Pot exists to offer cash support towards childcare, parking, travel, access or other extra costs that may surround coming to these classes. Take a read and please be in touch with how we could cover some of your extra costs so that you can come along and participate.
Rest: Our spaces are rest welcome. There are various benches, seats and corners in the studio or you are always welcome to leave the studio for a break.
Find out more here: www.gatherup.live
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Image description: Jo is on a mountain, standing up and leaning to her left hinging at the waist, with her arms outstretched over her head. Her eyes are closed and she looks calm, like the wind has blown her over and she's enjoying the feeling. She's got blonde hair, white skin and is wearing a cream wooly jumper and green trousers. There are two other figures in the background.
Image Credit: Felicity Crawshaw
Entry requirements: 18+
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