Photo Steve Tanner

Date: Saturday 18th January 2020
Time: 11.00am - 4.00pm
Venue: AMATA, Falmouth University, Studio B
Who? For dancers, practitioners, teachers, choreographers with an active physical practice 18yrs +
Fee: £10 p/p for the day.

/Bookings OPEN email artsdevelopment@hallforcornwall.org.uk

The Master Workshop #12 Programme is curated & produced by artist Emily Alden.
Supported by Hall for Cornwall.

Workshop Description

Emily’s workshop will encourage curiosity, physical exploration and dynamic connection with the body, each other and the physical space. Beginning with a contemporary based technical class with phrases focussing on accessing different energies, tensions and expressive capabilities to discover an instinctive way to get lost with purpose in the act of movement. Grounded in Cunningham, Release and Emily’s own individual movement vocabulary.

The afternoon session will build on material from class and with fresh improvisational starting points working deeply with partners and in small groups to play, make, throw away, begin again, respond, adapt and finally share material.

About Emily

Emily is a dancer and choreographer who works across dance and theatre, live and digital formats and communities. Originally from the Midlands Emily trained in Contemporary Dance at Bretton Hall College of Arts in Yorkshire and is now based in Cornwall. She has toured extensively as a dancer and performed in numerous site-based productions with companies including WildWorks, Cscape, Kneehigh and Simon Birch, and performed in works by Rosemary Lee, Emma Rice, Yael Flexer, and Agnieszka Blonska. Her work has taken her from Yorkshire to Northern Ireland, the Midlands, USA, mainland Europe and the South West of England.

Emily’s choreographic work includes WildWorks 100: UnEarth, and recently creating a devised work with Dance & Choreography students from AMATA, Falmouth University. Her dance for camera work with film collaborator Brett Harvey (Kneehigh, o-region, Lucasfilm) has been screened worldwide including Buenos Aries, Southern Ireland and Los Angeles.

She is currently developing new solo work In My Head (2020/21) exploring everyday sound & hearing loss with a DYCP grant and Project Grant from Arts Council England, supported by Hall for Cornwall where she is an Associate Artist. She has previously been supported by British Council and Arts Council England to nurture her practice through training and shadowing opportunities in Belgium, Norway, London and the Midlands with Motionhouse, Theo Clinkard, Maxine Doyle (Punchdrunk), Batsheva (GAGA Intensive) amongst others.

Emily is a Lecturer of Dance at Falmouth University, an Associate Artist at Hall for Cornwall, Co-founder of Freefall Dance and curator of the Master Workshop #12 Programme 2019/20.

In My Head - Work in Progress sharing at the Kneehigh Barns
Photo Steve Tanner