Photo: Heidrun Löhr / Dancers: Laure Bachelot (UK) & Luke Campbell (AU)

BEYOND TECHNIQUE – SEARCHING FOR AUTHENTICITY

Masterclass / Workshop

Class Level: Open (intermediate skill level)
Class description: ‘Beyond Technique’ is a practical workshop designed to challenge and inspire participants to search for and embody authentic quality of movement derived from their lived experience. Pitched to suit a range of experience including emerging and professional artists of diverse cultural background, non-stereotypical performers and people with different physicality interested in inclusive creative process.

‘Beyond Technique’ is suitable for people with some dance/movement experience interested in developing an awareness of improvisation techniques to inform the beginnings of creating new work.

This masterclass is not exclusive for people with and without a disability and is transferable from children to adult aged participants with varying dance experience.

This masterclass / workshop has been presented in Australia, Finland, Russia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan at the following venues:

• National Dance Forum’s Dance Your Heart Out at the Australian Ballet Centre Melbourne
• Arts Activated Conference at Carriageworks, Sydney
• Accessible Arts NSW Dance Symposium Carriageworks, Sydney
• This is not art – Crack Theatre Festival, Newcastle
• Options Tertiary Dance Festival Adelaide College of the Arts, Adelaide
• Global daCi/WDA Dance Summit at the Taipei National University of the Arts, TAIWAN
• Zuoying Senior High School, TAIWAN
• Boyd Education Centre at the Bundanon Trust NSW South Coast
• Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts Brisbane
• Zodiak – Centre for New Dance Helsinki, FINLAND
• Centre for Community Cultural Development, HONG KONG
• Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre Moscow, RUSSIA
• WDAS Asia Pacific Dance Bridge at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, SINGAPORE