A event held at Bristol Old Vic on Today. The event starts at 11:30.
GATHER UP hosts a day long workshop four times a year, inviting celebrated artists from across the UK to share their dance and choreographic practice and current research interests in a spirit of reciprocal enquiry.
These workshops are open to the curiosity of people aged 18+ who work with contemporary dance, movement improvisation, choreography or other movement practices.
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'World building'
In this workshop you will be invited to a rigorous play of movement and text to create your own fictional world. The relationship of the performer to their own space will be explored to bring alive the role of fiction. I will introduce the idea of "Scale" to cultivate a greater range of movement and expression. The workshop is aimed at professional artists and they would be invited into a space of permission and ease to work solo and work with what's present "in the room". I will be sharing my movement practice and offer elements from my solo making.
About Akshay Sharma:
Akshay is an independent choreographer and performer born and brought up in India and based in London. He trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds and since has been working with choreographers and making his own work. He is interested in choreography as organisation, practice as returning to the relationship between the craft and self, the value of emotions as sources of information. He works with principles and values simplicity, clarity and honesty in movement. In the studio he appreciates focus, play and immersion.
He looks at choreography as organisation and explores it using Indian classical music, here creatively informing the dramaturgy of the work. He is touring his solo work "Can This Place Be A Temple?" and working on a new production.
His choreographic work has been supported by London Contemporary Dance School, Arts Council England, Dance Umbrella Akram Khan Company, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Yorkshire Dance, Kala Sangam, Dance City and Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi.
https://akshaydances.com
Instagram: akshasha_
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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 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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REALISE YOU CAN’T MAKE IT?
We try our best to price our classes and workshops fairly and offer good value for money. To ensure the viability of our programme we do not offer refunds. However, you can put your ticket up for resale or transfer it to a friend using the Headfirst booking system. Your original ticket becomes void and a new, valid ticket will be emailed to the transfer recipient.
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GATHER UP is a dance development project supported using public funding by Arts Council England. The current programme is also made possible thanks to additional support from the Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement and Bristol Old Vic.
Image Description: a coloured photograph of a dancer of south asian heritage wearing a beige top and dark trousers standing. One arm is curved, his hand stretching out above his face while he looks at it, the other folds towards his stomach. There is orange lighting and smoke behind him.
Entry requirements: 18+
These workshops are open to the curiosity of people aged 18+ who work with contemporary dance, movement improvisation, choreography or other movement practices.
----------
'World building'
In this workshop you will be invited to a rigorous play of movement and text to create your own fictional world. The relationship of the performer to their own space will be explored to bring alive the role of fiction. I will introduce the idea of "Scale" to cultivate a greater range of movement and expression. The workshop is aimed at professional artists and they would be invited into a space of permission and ease to work solo and work with what's present "in the room". I will be sharing my movement practice and offer elements from my solo making.
About Akshay Sharma:
Akshay is an independent choreographer and performer born and brought up in India and based in London. He trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds and since has been working with choreographers and making his own work. He is interested in choreography as organisation, practice as returning to the relationship between the craft and self, the value of emotions as sources of information. He works with principles and values simplicity, clarity and honesty in movement. In the studio he appreciates focus, play and immersion.
He looks at choreography as organisation and explores it using Indian classical music, here creatively informing the dramaturgy of the work. He is touring his solo work "Can This Place Be A Temple?" and working on a new production.
His choreographic work has been supported by London Contemporary Dance School, Arts Council England, Dance Umbrella Akram Khan Company, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Yorkshire Dance, Kala Sangam, Dance City and Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi.
https://akshaydances.com
Instagram: akshasha_
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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 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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REALISE YOU CAN’T MAKE IT?
We try our best to price our classes and workshops fairly and offer good value for money. To ensure the viability of our programme we do not offer refunds. However, you can put your ticket up for resale or transfer it to a friend using the Headfirst booking system. Your original ticket becomes void and a new, valid ticket will be emailed to the transfer recipient.
—-----------------------------
GATHER UP is a dance development project supported using public funding by Arts Council England. The current programme is also made possible thanks to additional support from the Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement and Bristol Old Vic.
Image Description: a coloured photograph of a dancer of south asian heritage wearing a beige top and dark trousers standing. One arm is curved, his hand stretching out above his face while he looks at it, the other folds towards his stomach. There is orange lighting and smoke behind him.
Entry requirements: 18+