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A new programme of professional development for early career dancers.

Combine professional level dance intensive weekends with business skills webinars to support your dance career, sustain your practice and gain a peer network.

THRIVE: Trinity Laban Professional Development for Dancers

Presented by Trinity Laban and running from April – August 2022, THRIVE is geared to early career and emerging professional dancers, recent dance graduates or those seeking to replenish their professional dance technique skills.

The mix and match programme offers:

  • 4 x Live Dance Technique Weekend Intensives
  • 6 x Business Skills Webinar Sessions
  • a Facilitated Action Learning group

Dance Technique Intensives include Gaga/Dancers, Flying Low and Passing Through, Improvisation and Contemporary Technique.

Business webinar sessions include managing a portfolio career, inclusive and safe dance practice, social media skills, understanding arts funding, business and financial management and peer networking support.

THRIVE is funded by Lewisham Council and produced by Clearcut.

Find out more and book below.

Thrive: Weekend Dance Technique Intensives 

Four professional-level dance intensive weekends to delve deep into practice, refresh skills, and connect with peers. 

Improvisation

Improvisation with Seke Chimutengwende

Sat 28 May & Sun 29 May | 10.00 – 16.00

In this workshop led by Seke Chimutengwende we will look at different ways of generating movement material and relating it to other people in the space. 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.

www.sekechimutengwende.com

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Flying Low and Passing Through

Flying Low and Passing Through led by Luca Braccia

Sat 9 July & Sun 10 July | 10.00 – 16.00

The workshop led by Luca Braccia will focus on David Zambrano’s Flying-Low technique and Passing Through system. We will spiral, run, slide, and sing to pass through the floor and other bodies by playing with speed and energy! In the morning, you will be introduced to the basic principles (‘gathering and sending’) by practising sequences of set material with different pathways. In the afternoon, you will explore instant-composition rules and group improvisation. Peer work will encourage collaboration and analysis, and the session will include reflections on Zambrano’s philosophy.

www.lucabraccia.com

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Contemporary Technique

Contemporary Technique by Glenn Graham

Sat 16 July & Sun 17 July | 10.00 – 16.00

Glenn Graham‘s classes are designed to help individuals realise their own unique way of moving. The main emphasis is shifting the body around the space whilst finding rotations around the spine, exploring the use of weight and suspension. There will also be a collection of phrases that’s a fusion of Modern, Ballet and Contemporary techniques.

www.glenngrahamdance.com

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Gaga Dancers

Gaga/Dancers led by Anoushka Jago

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Anoushka Jago’s Movement Research

Sat 6 August & Sun 7 August | 10.00 – 16.00

Each day will begin with a 75 minute Gaga/Dancers class which deepens dancers’ awareness of physical sensations, expands their palette of available movement options, enhances their ability to modulate their energy and engage their explosive power, and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures.

The layering of familiar skills with Gaga/Dancers tasks presents dancers with fresh challenges, and throughout the class, teachers prompt the dancers to visit more unfamiliar places and ways of moving as well, unlocking the endlessness of possibilities. Dancers are guided to connect their effort to pleasure and to discover the virtue of silliness. We will explore these principles in a variety of formats.

Anoushka Jago’s Movement Research has been influenced by a love for exploring and expanding the range of one’s physically expressive abilities. This involves constant experimentation with movement quality and intention inside of physically challenging material. The class will encourage participants to layer physical and theatrical research to use their ‘whole self’ within their dance.

Anoushka graduated from the Gaga Teacher Training Programme in 2020, under the artistic direction of Bosmat Nossan, Saar Harari and Ohad Naharin.

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Weekend Intensive Prices

Full price £30 – If you are able to pay full price, please do.

Concessions £20 – If you are having difficulty paying full price this time, have this session at reduced cost.

Reduced price £15 – We understand if it’s tricky.  If you can pay more next time, we’d appreciate it.

 

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Thrive: Business Skills Webinars

6 Webinars for dancers led by industry professionals to brush up on your Business Skills and to support you in sustaining your career. 

Webinar 1: How to apply for Arts Council funding Wed 13 April 16.00 – 18.00
Webinar 2: Inclusive and Safe Dance Practice Wed 11 May 16.00 – 18.00
Webinar 3: Showing off your best side: developing your social media skills Wed 18 May 16.00 – 18.00
Webinar 4: Portfolio career – being a freelance dancer (and living well) Wed 15 Jun 16.00 – 18.00
Webinar 5: Managing your dance business Wed 22 Jun 16.00 – 18.00
Webinar 6: How to feed your practice  (wellbeing, further CPD, peer support) Wed 13 July 16.00 – 18.00

 

All participants attending webinars will be invited to join a free Action Learning Group to continue discussion around the webinar themes supporting peer learning and to help build your network.

Webinar Prices: Full price £5 | Concessions £3 | Free to those in Lewisham postcodes

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