CONTEMPORARY DANCE
OPEN LEVEL

Open to everybody!

Fridays
7:45-9pm
Price £15

FLYING LOW
&
Passing Through

Guests teachers on rotation.

Flying Low is a technique initiated by David Zambrano that uses simple movement patterns and principles (such as spiralling and alternating between expansion and cohesion) to dance our whole selves in, out and along the floor with speed, efficiency and pleasure.

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COMING SOON!!
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1 DAY
INTENSIVE

Mini intensive lead by a Professional
dance artists.

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Saturdays
3-7pm
Price: £25-£50

Intensive
workshops

Once a month we invite an internationally renowned dance
artists to lead a 4 day long intensive for the uk based professional dance community. The invited artists have often danced/ choreographer for some of the most prestigious contemporary dance companies in the world and therefore have some of the most cutting edge forms of training and creative toolkits in the world.
They often offer inspiration to young artists to develop/refine their own forms of trainings and creative making and increase their technique portfolio.

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GAGA
MOVEMENT

Participants: Dancer and Movement Practitioners.

Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations, and offers ways for their elimination. The work improves instinctive movement and connects conscious and unconscious movement, and it allows for an experience of freedom and pleasure in a simple way, in a pleasant space, in comfortable clothes, accompanied by music, each person with himself and others. Gaga/dancers classes are open to professional dancers or advanced dance students ages 16+. These classes last for an hour and fifteen minutes and are taught by dancers who have worked closely with
Ohad Naharin.

Gaga/dancers classes are built on the same principles as Gaga/people classes but also employ the specific vocabulary and skills that are part and parcel of a dancer’s knowledge. The layering of familiar movements with Gaga 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. Gaga/dancers 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.

Every first Sunday of the month.

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Trip
the Light

To date we have run five performance festivals/events, two focussed solely on uk based dance work, three also had international remit. These have all received ACE funding in addition to funding from partner cultural organisations (The Place, Aerowaves, Hayward Gallery, ICI, Czec Center).

The vision of these festivals is always to promote and showcase new work by the most talented new dance artists in UK and Europe.

DANCERS' WELLBEING TOOLKIT

As part of MMM, we have hosted a series of online encounters with lecturers and clinicians to catalyze conversations around the health and wellbeing of contemporary dance artists in the workplace and throughout their careers. The aim was to question how we operate as a sector and what our relationship with our workforce’s health is.

Unfortunately evidence indicates that professional dancers are a medically under-served occupational group.

Consider this booklet as an awareness toolkit containing information drawn from these online conversations.

Contributions by dance artist and educator Nita Little, phd; Osteopaths Arianna Pisano & Victoria Hoyland; Royal Ballet Company Physiotherapist Katy Chambers

We hope this will be useful for all dancers and please do spread the word.

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Contact Improvisation

Contact Improvisation is a dynamic, touch-based partner dance form that blends elements of martial arts, physics, and somatic principles to create an organic, improvisational dance experience. Developed by Steve Paxton in 1972 with input from dancers like Nancy Stark-Smith and Nita Little, it encourages participants to explore balance, momentum, and shared weight in a non-hierarchical, collaborative way. Through workshops, jams, and skill exchanges, dancers engage in a practice that emphasizes bodily awareness, responsive movement, and communication through touch, allowing for a spectrum of experiences—from gentle, sensory exchanges to energetic, acrobatic play. This form has gained a global following as a democratic and accessible practice, open to people of all backgrounds and skill levels.