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Contemporary: STOPGAP Spinnstudion
Wednesday, 30 October kl. 10:15 – 11:45
V44 Daglig Träning/Daily Training
CONTEMPORARY
Mån/Mon-Tor/Thu: 10:15-11:45 Spinnstudion
Stopgap Dance Company is driven by a diverse creative team who uses dance as a movement for change.
Their mission is to create an inclusive world where diversity is not just accepted but pursued, a world where no one is limited by prejudice against Deaf, Disabled, or neurodivergent people.
Working with an artform shaped by human touch and energised by the spark of connectivity, our work demonstrates the compelling power of diversity and inclusivity. We move together to create a remarkable experience that transforms society’s perceptions of difference and dismantle the inequity of privilege, in dance and in all aspects of living, collaborating, and creating together as humans.
The company are a global leader of disability access in dance and continuously examine best practice. We actively advocate for the industry and the wider world to become more inclusive.
Morning company class
Laura and Cherie will lead you through a professional-level company class, using Stopgap’s inclusive training methods, developed in collaboration over time with the diverse creative team. Building over the four mornings, class will cover various elements, including warm-up to tune in to your body and developing specific dance skills through a blend of improvisation and structured movement sequences. The class explores the importance of connection physically within our own bodies, with others through contact and collaboratively through dance.
Afternoon artistic practice workshops
These workshops will guide, build and develop you as dance artists and collaborators. Each day will have it’s own theme drawing on Stopgap’s Inclusive Practice. Building an open and non-judgemental setting, we will offer explorations with time to share and reflect.
Monday: Exploring and developing individual personal movement vocabulary. This afternoon will focus on getting to know your body and preferred way of moving through the use of textures and open language explorations.
Cherie Brennan (she/her), Community Engagement Artist, trained at the University of Surrey with a focus in Contemporary and Traditional African and Caribbean Dance Forms. She joined Stopgap in 2013 as part of her placement year and after graduating with BA Hons in Dance and Culture and a 1st for her placement year in 2015, she re-joined Stopgap as an Access worker.
Since then Cherie has been Access Officer, Creative Learning Associate, Youth Leader and now Community Engagement Artist (3 days a week). Within this time she has performed in Moon Language, co- managed an international inclusive choreographic lab, was integral in the research of The Enormous Room which she then went on to tour with as Assistant Stage Manager, as well as observing and receiving in house teacher training to support, perform with or lead Stopgaps youth companies as well as teaching outreach workshops and Summer intensives.
Klasser med STOPGAP sker i samarbete med Språng. https://dusprang.se/vidare/
Språng har fått utvecklingsstöd från Kulturrådet och Göteborgs stad för att bedriva utvecklingsprojektet VIDARE. Projektet syftar till att utveckla en funktionsöverskridande danspraktik på professionell nivå både lokalt och nationellt. Inom ramen för projektet kommer Danscentrum Västs daglig träning på måndagar vara i Spinnstudion. Dansklasserna vänder sig till dig som är professionell dansare eller har stor danserfarenhet oavsett vilken funktionalitet du har. Den dagliga träningen inom VIDARE är ett samarbete mellan Språng, Danscentrum Väst, Danskompaniet Spinn och Regionteater Väst.
Klasser och workshops med STOPGAP sker i samarbete med Dansalliansen. https://dansalliansen.se
Dansalliansen erbjuder en unik anställningsform för yrkesverksamma frilansande dansare. Genom att även erbjuda kompetensutveckling och förmedlande möten i samarbete med områdets aktörer bidrar Dansalliansen till att stärka dansen i Sverige.
Samarbetsparter för att göra detta möjligt är Dansalliansen, Danscentrum Väst, Språng, Danskompaniet Spinn och RTV.