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Dance is a progressive collective creative action best enjoyed with others. Consequently, I have tried to do it with as many different groups of people as possible and this has meant becoming a very experienced teacher and facilitator of dance and performance.
Subject areas that I work in include:- Dance techniques: Humphrey/Limon, Cunningham, release, contact, contemporary.
- Choreography: material development, composition, devising and refining strategies.
- Improvisation: ways to become responsive, spontaneous and original in creating live dance and performance.
- Working with mixed-media: film, video, photography and projection, objects, costume, text, voice.
- Concepts and ideas: from art movements (expressionism/postmodernism) to science (Chaos and Emergence).
- Identity, Representation, Expression: subject-object relationships, autobiographical work, political, social and cultural perspectives in performance.
- Twentieth Century Dance History.
- World Dance Forms: Exploring styles such as classical Spanish dance, Cajun, Tap, Jazz, Tango amongst others.
- Teachers courses: leadership and group skills, planning teaching and designing courses, publicity, funding, and communication skills.
I am always interested in working with others to design new courses and creative learning opportunities, particularly if they have relation to my current aesthetic concerns, so do get in touch.
