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South West Dance Theatre announce contact workshops for contemporary, ballet and breakdancing
South West Dance Theatre will be running a series of dance workshops in different styles in February and March, all based around contact – from contemporary to ballet and breakdancing.
For Anna Davis, founding director of the community interest company that supports a range of dancers and dance-related projects in Bristol, it’s the vital ingredient.
“Nothing happens in dance without contact”, she states, pointing out that the idea of pushing and pulling, both within a single body, and from one body to another, is where everything happens.
Photo: South West Dance Theatre
And there’s even more to it than that. For Davis, the idea of moving an audience through dance, is also down to the idea of contact and connection.
Working as a dancer, choreographer and teacher, she also holds a PhD in physics, and brings her scientific background into her artistic practice – most memorably in the interdisciplinary projects Aperiodic by way of Ballet, Breakdancing and Hofstadter’s Butterfly, and Art of Quantum.
This latest series of workshops will begin on February 17 with morning and afternoon sessions in contemporary dance at The Station.
Owen Ridley-DeMonick – photo: Tom Kirkpatrick
The first is aimed at kids and families, led by Davis, and then the latter will be for older kids and teens, with Owen Ridley-DeMonick, who is a founding member of Impermanence Dance, as well as a current guest artist with Culburg Dance Company in Stockholm.
At the end of February and in early March, subsequent workshops at Kulture Dance Studio in Stokes Croft will pair ballet, acro and breakdancing, to be co-hosted by Silvia Orazzo, aka Bgirl Danger.
“Which ever one you attend”, says Davis, “expect to have fun, learn something new and go home sweetly exhausted!”
Silvia Orazzo aka BGirl Danger – photo: South West Dance Theatre
Contact – contemporary dance workshop is at The Station on February 17 from 11am-1pm with Anna Davis (for kids and families) and 2-4.30pm with Owen Ridley-DeMonick (for big kids and teens). Tickets are available at www.headfirstbristol.co.uk.
Future workshops for contact in ballet/acro/breakdancing will take place at Kulture Studio: on February 28 from 2-4pm with Anna (for kids and families); and March 7 from 2-4pm with Anna and Silvia Orazzo (for teens). Follow @southwestdancetheatre for updates.
Main photo: Anna Davis and Renee Brown by Derwood Photography
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