April saw our third residency of the project which was hosted by Misiconi Dance Company in Rotterdam. Mia and I were excited to be travelling to our Dutch partner’s home, to meet their dancers and gain a better understanding of how their company worked. Joop had kindly arranged a meeting for as at Introdans who…
Read more
In January we started with our first block on alignment and strength. Both me and Manouk devised the class immediately after our last exchange day in Leeds. Our minds were fresh and full with new ideas to test out. We came up with over 6 set excercices combined with explorations which were all based on…
Read more
By Sophie By the end of our second residency we had developed a framework of approaches and activities we were going to explore and develop as part of our sessions with our dancers. We’d divided (while acknowledging everything is intertwined of course) strength and alignment into sections: Body awareness – tactile cues (self given such…
Read more
By Gabriela Welcome back to the SHIFT blog! The project is already underway and after our first meeting of teams and countries, we met again in Leeds to set some evaluation methods for our teaching proposal. These evaluation, or testing, methods were offered to us by the specialists from the University of Edinburgh, Wendy Timmons…
Read more
By Joop It was just before Christmas and we all know this is one of the busiest times of the year for dance practitioners or even as director. Well, it didn’t matter because we were all so excited to travel to Leeds to meet all the Partners in real life. Of course there had been…
Read more
We hope you will find it relevant, interesting and enlightening. The idea for the project first started developing in Jan 2018. I had led Northern Ballet’s Ability for over 5 years and felt I needed some new input. Mia (Support Artist) and I always spend a fair bit of time reflecting on what happens in…
Read more
