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Laban Dance Summer School in Kildare
Kildare County Council Arts Service, through its three-year Dance Artist in Residence programme with Cathy O’ Kennedy identified a need for training in Community Dance in the Kildare area. As a result, the Laban Guild Community Dance Leaders Course was established in 2002, in association with Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge. Twenty-two dancers, artists, actors, teachers and community workers attend the course.
Following on from the success of the Community Dance Leaders Course, Kildare County Council is pleased to announce that a Laban Guild Summer School will take place in NUI Maynooth Kildare from Tuesday 5th August to Saturday 9th August 2003.
A provisional programme for the Summer School includes practical workshops/classes in
- Contemporary Dance
- Integrated Dance work
Dance in Education, with emphasis on the Dance Strand of the Physical Education- Curriculum for primary schools
- Youth Dance
- Integrated Dance work
- Choreography
- Dance in a community Context
- Dance Technique
The programme is based on Laban principles i.e. a systematic analysis of movement in relation to dynamic use of the body in space. However, previous experience of Laban’s work or other dance techniques, is not essential.
