A event held at Bristol Old Vic on Monday 28th April. The event starts at 10:00.
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GATHER UP Presents is a gathering for the celebration of contemporary dance practice in Bristol, in partnership with Bristol Old Vic. Set over 3 days, between 26th-29th April 2025, we will present the work of Bristol movement practitioners and beyond through live performance, workshops, artist talks, and screen-based work.
Workshop with Kyra Norman
Deep Time Moving
This session begins with a question: What can we, as moving bodies on a moving planet, learn from an imaginative attention to the ground beneath our feet? Starting with simple movement prompts and improvisational scores, we will find our way through a series of moving environments, together: settling/ unsettling, folding, drifting, forming/re-forming, fragmenting, rest. You will be supported to find your own route into, and through, some deliciously complex, nuanced moving and thinking, and leave with an enlivened curiosity about our individual and collective embodied experience of space and time.
Participants are welcome to engage in this field of activity as a mover, or to draw/ write in response; or to shift between these modes over the course of the session. Some materials (paper, pencils) will be provided, but do please also bring what you might like to use. This workshop is for anyone with a curiosity about the themes that Deep Time Moving touches on: movement, connection, deep time, geology, climate, our relationship to the places where we live… and a commitment to engaging in a softly rigorous, physical process of enquiry. Together we will create a relaxed, playful and inspiring environment for exploration.
Kyra Norman works in dance, performance, film & contemporary visual art contexts, as a dancer, choreographer, researcher, educator and host of unique live events. She has 20+ years’ experience of facilitating, proposing and teaching movement and dance in diverse contexts including peer-led professional movement research, dance programmes within universities, and grassroots community classes. Since 2020, she has run DISTANT DANCES: adventures in movement and dance for all bodies that like to move, which includes a weekly class in Penzance, Cornwall, attended by a great gang of movers aged 20 – 70+ (come visit, if you’re passing through). With artist Faye Dobinson, she collaborates as ALL IN, generating interdisciplinary art works and co-hosting ALL IN DISCO. DEEP TIME MOVING is a movement-led interdisciplinary art work unfolding in response to the unique geological deep time moves of the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, where Kyra lives. After 3 years’ intensive development locally, in 2024, DEEP TIME MOVING began drifting upwards and outwards with performances, screenings and workshops at Ashburton Arts, Tate St Ives, Royal Cornwall Museum and Wainsgate Dances.
https://www.kyranorman.co.uk/
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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, 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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GATHER UP Presents is made possible thanks to our partner Bristol Old Vic. It is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and by Bristol City Council (Originators).
Entry requirements: 18+
GATHER UP Presents is a gathering for the celebration of contemporary dance practice in Bristol, in partnership with Bristol Old Vic. Set over 3 days, between 26th-29th April 2025, we will present the work of Bristol movement practitioners and beyond through live performance, workshops, artist talks, and screen-based work.
Workshop with Kyra Norman
Deep Time Moving
This session begins with a question: What can we, as moving bodies on a moving planet, learn from an imaginative attention to the ground beneath our feet? Starting with simple movement prompts and improvisational scores, we will find our way through a series of moving environments, together: settling/ unsettling, folding, drifting, forming/re-forming, fragmenting, rest. You will be supported to find your own route into, and through, some deliciously complex, nuanced moving and thinking, and leave with an enlivened curiosity about our individual and collective embodied experience of space and time.
Participants are welcome to engage in this field of activity as a mover, or to draw/ write in response; or to shift between these modes over the course of the session. Some materials (paper, pencils) will be provided, but do please also bring what you might like to use. This workshop is for anyone with a curiosity about the themes that Deep Time Moving touches on: movement, connection, deep time, geology, climate, our relationship to the places where we live… and a commitment to engaging in a softly rigorous, physical process of enquiry. Together we will create a relaxed, playful and inspiring environment for exploration.
Kyra Norman works in dance, performance, film & contemporary visual art contexts, as a dancer, choreographer, researcher, educator and host of unique live events. She has 20+ years’ experience of facilitating, proposing and teaching movement and dance in diverse contexts including peer-led professional movement research, dance programmes within universities, and grassroots community classes. Since 2020, she has run DISTANT DANCES: adventures in movement and dance for all bodies that like to move, which includes a weekly class in Penzance, Cornwall, attended by a great gang of movers aged 20 – 70+ (come visit, if you’re passing through). With artist Faye Dobinson, she collaborates as ALL IN, generating interdisciplinary art works and co-hosting ALL IN DISCO. DEEP TIME MOVING is a movement-led interdisciplinary art work unfolding in response to the unique geological deep time moves of the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, where Kyra lives. After 3 years’ intensive development locally, in 2024, DEEP TIME MOVING began drifting upwards and outwards with performances, screenings and workshops at Ashburton Arts, Tate St Ives, Royal Cornwall Museum and Wainsgate Dances.
https://www.kyranorman.co.uk/
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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, 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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GATHER UP Presents is made possible thanks to our partner Bristol Old Vic. It is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and by Bristol City Council (Originators).
Entry requirements: 18+
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