Image by Maurizio Martorana from Plastic Soul by Seke Chimutengwende at The Yard Theatre 2019
Date: Thursday 24th June 2021
Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm BST - including a short, informal Q&A
Location: Zoom (Room opens 10 mins prior to workshop start time)
Fee: Pay What You Can £3 / £5 / £8 / £10
Important information: By joining this online workshop participants are responsible for their own health and safety working in their personal spaces.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This improvisation class led by Seke Chimutengwende will look at different ways of generating material. You will be given the opportunity to make your own decisions in the moment and will be encouraged to follow your own interests within given parameters. The aim of the class is to develop a sense of authorship and to enable a greater understanding of one’s own practice
ABOUT SEKE CHIMUTENGWENDE
Seke Chimutengwende is a choreographer, performer, movement director and teacher. He has performed for companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre and Lost Dog and has performed solo and group improvisations internationally since 2006. His choreographies include The Time Travel. Piece (runner up for The Place Prize 2012) and Black Holes, a collaboration with Alexandrina Hemsley (The British Council’s Edinburgh Showcase in 2019.) Seke is currently researching a new group choreography looking at ghosts and haunted houses as metaphors for how histories of slavery and colonialism haunt the present. Seke has also worked as a movement director for theatre productions at The Yard, Battersea Arts Centre and The Gate Theatre, and teaches improvisation at The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and London Contemporary Dance School amongst others.
Image by Antigone Avdi from Late! Night Solos at TripSpace, London 2018.