The Constant Change

A chance for participants to explore and develop their skills, both as dancers and as choreographers with Angus Balbernie and Janis Claxton
These workshops offer participants a chance to explore, extend and investigate the links between dance improvisation and composition. Both can be developed with a clear technical training, and imaginative individual work.
Each day a morning session is led by Janis Claxton exploring the moving body through technique and improvisations based in fundamental movement principles. Playing with the dynamic pulls of gravity, extension and momentum, partuicipants are guided to expand range and discover new pathways and possibilities of motion.
The afternoons led by Angus Balbernie take this physical training and movement material into a series of compositional explorations, looking at clear choreographic skills, and compositional techniques. Using articulation and imagery, participants work with physical and imaginative choices, individually, and collectively, to devise, shape, edit and direct.