WORKSHOPS
GATHER UP hosts a day long workshop four times a year, inviting celebrated artists from across the UK to share their dance and choreographic practice and current research interests in a spirit of reciprocal enquiry.
These workshops are open to the curiosity of people aged 18+ who work with contemporary dance, movement improvisation, choreography or other movement practices.
workshop with Annie pui ling lok
This workshop will provide a series of open frames and invitations to improvise and observe:
- how I move
- what/who affects my dance
- what/who is my dance effecting
Guided work in tuning proprioception and observing physical sensations will lead us into noticing choice, agency, and desire as we play, explore and improvise alone and with others.
Annie will draw on key areas of her work – performance, choreography, contact improvisation, and biodynamic craniosacral therapy.
Exercises exploring the giving and receiving of touch and weight will be used.
About Annie Pui Ling Lok:
Annie has been a freelance dance artist since 1999, and graduated as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist (BCST) in 2014. She makes live performances in processes that are experimental and collaborative. Teaching and facilitation remain a key part of her practice and she has taught in numerous community, professional and Higher Education settings. In 2021 Annie became one of the first leaders of colour to direct a dance organisation as Co-Artistic Director and Joint CEO of Siobhan Davies Studios (SDS) alongside independent producer Kat Bridge. Outside of working at SDS Annie continues to freelance and take care of her (nearly) 5-year old daughter.
https://www.siobhandavies.com/
Image Description: A South Asian man in his early 30's wearing a white t-shirt and black slim fitting jeans is standing/dancing facing an East Asian woman in her mid-40's wearing a grey t-shirt and navy wide legged jeans. Both are twisting their torsos and arms in opposite directions to each other and the woman has a small smile on her face.They are in a dance studio with wooden floors a white background and in natural daylight.
Photo taken by Roswitha Chesher.
Who is this workshop for?
Artists and practitioners (18yrs+) working with contemporary dance, improvisation, choreography or other movement practices.
What are the timings of the day?
The studio will be open from 11am. The workshop will begin at 11.30am with an hour break for lunch, small breaks in-between and will end at 5pm with 30mins until 5.30pm to connect, cool down, stretch and leave the venue.
Access:
If you need access support during the workshop or have a question contact us at: info.gatherup@gmail.com
If you are a dancer with a visual impairment and would like to come to this workshop and access our free creative audio description 1-1 support please get in touch to find out more and how to book: info.gatherup@gmail.com
We have a Care Pot available offering cash support towards childcare, parking, travel, access or other extra costs that may surround being able to attend this workshop. Take a read and please be in touch with how we could cover some of your extra costs so that you can come along and participate: info.gatherup@gmail.com
Read our sharing spaces commitment here.
Booking:
Book your place here: https://hdfst.uk/e105870
Ticket price is pay-what-you-decide with a min. cost of £25.00 + booking fee (which is donated to a Bristol-based charity via Headfirst).
Realise you can’t make it?:
We no longer offer refunds. However, you can put your ticket up for resale or transfer it to a friend using the Headfirst booking system if the workshop is fully booked. If you put your original ticket for resale or transfer via headfirst it will become void and a new, valid ticket will be emailed to the transfer recipient. Transfers can be made up to 24 hours before the event.
Waiting List:
If the workshop places sell out you can add yourself to a waiting list via the headfirst booking link and you will be informed when a ticket is available to purchase.
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS & CREATIVE RESPONSES:
Below is an archive of all the workshops we have hosted.
At previous workshops, we have invited a participating dancer to capture an essence of some of the ideas/provocations/explorations shared in the workshop through the lens of their own dance practice. All of these responses can be found here, or are linked below.
BAKANI PICKUP
KALANGA
October 2023
EVERYWHERE HERE
March 2023
January 2023
image Camilla Greenwell
September 2022
Anushiye Yarnell
AN ARRAY OF OPPOSITES
June 2022
March 2022
STARTING FROM A PLACE OF COMFORT
January 2022
WHY BRING ATTENTION TO A MOMENT LIVED?
September 2021
SIMPLE SCORES
January 2020
HOW DOES THE DANCER SPEAK?
September 2019
THE IMPROVISATIONAL PERFORMER
June 2019
TOGETHER
March 2019