This workshop will draw on processes and techniques used to create our current performance 'They Fell To Earth {A Flight Log}', which is being shared at Bath Spa University on Wednesday 14th October. This is a improvisatory workshop exploring Dust Ensemble’s playful physical improvisatory approaches towards making performance. We will use the body as a source, along with objects, to explore the concepts of playing the game and going too far. Through individual scores and pairwork, playing with a singular idea that drives a game between you. We will develop these ideas in larger groups in the game of ‘the grid’ to explore how games intersect, and relationships arise to generate performance material.

We'll look at how to organise and perform a group fight when you are stretched for time. Together, we will explore swashbuckling swordplay. Culminating in a choreographed group fight that will take us back to the golden age of piracy!

'A Different Way of Looking' is a choreographic workshop challenging and exploring how we observe movement and stillness. We will be drawing on pedestrian movement to build choreographic patterns that we will observe through a simple cardboard framing device that I call a Looking Box. Please bring a mobile phone.

Physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhilarating, Medicine Dance is a verbally guided, often music-accompanied movement experience. We identify present moment thoughts, feelings, and sensations and invite them to be expressed through the body. In a Medicine Dance class or workshop we dance from the inside, out. There is attention on Self, time with partners, and time with smaller and larger groups. Every participant always has the option to work individually, in the belief that our most significant partner is our Self. No dance experience necessary.