GATHER UP, an artist-led programme for dancers, invites celebrated artist Annie Pui Ling Lok to share their dance and choreographic practice and their current research in a spirit of reciprocal enquiry.

This workshop is open to the curiosity of artists and practitioners aged 18yrs+ who work with contemporary dance, movement improvisation, choreography or other movement practices.
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This workshop will provide a series of open frames and invitations to improvise and observe:
- how I move
- what/who affects my dance
- what/who is my dance effecting

Guided work in tuning proprioception and observing physical sensations will lead us into noticing choice, agency, and desire as we play, explore and improvise alone and with others.

Annie will draw on key areas of her work – performance, choreography, contact improvisation, and biodynamic craniosacral therapy.

Exercises exploring the giving and receiving of touch and weight will be used.

About Annie Pui Ling Lok:
Annie has been a freelance dance artist since 1999, and graduated as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist (BCST) in 2014. She makes live performances in processes that are experimental and collaborative. Teaching and facilitation remain a key part of her practice and she has taught in numerous community, professional and Higher Education settings. In 2021 Annie became one of the first leaders of colour to direct a dance organisation as Co-Artistic Director and Joint CEO of Siobhan Davies Studios (SDS) alongside independent producer Kat Bridge. Outside of working at SDS Annie continues to freelance and take care of her (nearly) 5-year old daughter.

https://www.siobhandavies.com/
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Who is this workshop for?
Artists and practitioners (18yrs+) working with contemporary dance, improvisation, choreography or other movement practices.

What are the timings of the day?
The studio will be open from 11am. The workshop will begin at 11.30am with an hour break for lunch, small breaks in-between and will end at 5pm with 30mins until 5.30pm to connect, cool down, stretch and leave the venue.

Access:
If you are a dancer with a visual impairment and would like to come to this workshop and access our free creative audio description 1-1 support please get in touch to find out more and how to book:
[email protected]

If you need access support during the workshop or have a question contact us at: [email protected]

We have a Care Pot available offering cash support towards childcare, parking, travel, access or other extra costs that may surround being able to attend this workshop. 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. https://www.gatherup.live/care-pot

To read our sharing spaces commitment visit:
https://www.gatherup.live/working-together

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Image 1: A South Asian man in his early 30's wearing a white t-shirt and black slim fitting jeans is standing/dancing facing an East Asian woman in her mid-40's wearing a grey t-shirt and navy wide legged jeans. Both are twisting their torsos and arms in opposite directions to each other and the woman has a small smile on her face.They are in a dance studio with wooden floors a white background and in natural daylight.
Photo taken by Roswitha Chesher.

Image 2: Two people are seated on the floor, one of them a white woman in her 50's with light blonde hair wearing a stripey long sleeved top and a blue t-shirt on top is sitting cross legged with her back to the camera, the other is an East Asian woman in her mid-40's wearing a light grey loose sweater and is kneeling in profile to the camera and perpendicular to the other woman, she has one hand on her upper back the other hand on her chest. They are in a dance studio with wooden floors and natural daylight coming through the windows.
Photo taken by Cheniece Warner

https://www.gatherup.live/workshops

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