Date/Time
Saturday 22 March 2025 - Sunday 23 March 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Categories Dance
Alongside the Saturday evening performance Quartet, three top dancers/choreographers are running workshops which are open to all. More about each below.
Saturday 22 March, 11am – 1pm : Return to the body with Jane Mason
Saturday March 22, 3 – 5pm : Ensemble Contact Impro Lab with Klara Łucznik
Sunday March 23, 2 – 4pm : Post performance workshop with Yolande Snaith
Workshop participants are welcome to join the Jam at 5pm on Sunday 23 March.
These all take place in the Studio upstairs (20 stairs, no lift).
Tickets for each workshop are £15 or £12 or £10 – please pay what you can.
Booking links below (10% booking fee) or email boxoffice@ashburtonarts.org.uk to reserve a place on one or more of the workshops.
Saturday 22 March, 11am – 1pm Workshop: Return to the body with Jane Mason Book here
Are you struggling to keep dancing, to get yourself through the door?
This workshop is inspired by the idea of reinvigorating our dancing as an act of personal survival in times of change. Working with improvisation, alone and with each other, through a range of inclusive movement scores, participants will be guided to reconnect with their intuitive dancing, expanding perception of how we sense, relate and respond choreographically in the moment. Together we’ll bring attention to awakening the artist in each of us.
“I enjoyed and trusted Jane’s approach to working with us… I respected both her fearlessness and sensitivity… The open-endedness of her ideas caught my imagination, not knowing what, where or how things might evolve, and being drawn and carried by the intensity and playfulness of her purpose…” Workshop participant
Jane Mason is a Devon-based artist working across a range of collaborative choreographic practices: jane-mason.co.uk
Saturday March 22, 3 – 5pm Ensemble CI Lab with Klara Łucznik Book here
Immerse yourself in the richness and magic of group structures in contact improvisation, where connections are woven not only through touch but also through space and time. More about Klara here.
Sunday March 23, 2 – 4pm : Post performance workshop with Yolande Snaith Book here
An invitation to experience the integral structures and themes explored in Quartet, offering insights into dance-making ‘in the moment’ and collaborative practice.
Yolande writes: “As we dance with an awareness of our relationship to other moving bodies in time, space, sound, music and our environment, we are making moment to moment intuitive choices, creating the dance as we go along. This workshop invites participants to tune their awareness with curiosity, both individually and as a collective, to ‘composing in the moment’. We engage attentively in a creative practice that opens space for dance-making with heightened senses, expanded creativity, deeply felt embodiment and playful spontaneity.
“We will begin with a guided improvisational warmup, tuning our attention to our internal landscapes and anatomical architectures through both movement and stillness; opening, softening, releasing, lengthening, expanding, surrendering to gravity, elevating with levity, listening and responding to sensation as we move and embody somatic information and images. As we extend our awareness out to the collective and the space, participants are guided to playfully build connections through dancing in imaginative and creative ways, consciously developing spontaneous, relational choice making. Time is spent both dancing and witnessing, sharing feedback and experiences, leading to the practice of joyful emergent dances, that hold their own internal logic, poetry, form and meaningfulness.”
This workshop relates to the Quartet performance on Sat 22 March – seeing that is useful but not essential.
Sunday March 23, 5-6pm: JAM
An hour-long open improvisation session with soundscapes by Gisson Hussman.
All workshop attendees are welcome to participate.
A limited number of spectator tickets at £10 or £8 or £5 are available at wegottickets.com/event/653422 or email boxoffice@ashburtonarts.org.uk.
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* We usually have three ticket prices – please pay what you can. If you can pay the full price, that’s great. If choosing a cheaper ticket allows you to come to more things, then please do! Ticket receipts are split between the artists (it’s usually their livelihood!) and the arts centre (keeps the place going). Except on the rare occasions when we have a sellout gig on our hands, it’s always better to have someone here in the audience than an empty seat, so genuinely, please pay whatever you can.