WORKSHOP DETAILS

Kildare dance Summer School 2003

WELCOME WORKSHOP
CATHY O’KENNEDY
A dance experience that gently welcomes the participants into the realm of the art of dance. An introduction to the physical tasks inherent in current contemporary dance practices with a focus on working from the inside out. The approach heightens student’s awareness of the use of the bones and breath in movement work. There will be a strong emphasis on safe practices, both physical and environmental.

DANCE WITH DISABILITY
COLM GALLAGHER
AMICI Dance Theatre Company is a unique dance theatre company integrating able-bodied and disabled artists and performers. Founded in 1980, its productions and workshops have had a major impact challenging conventional attitudes about disability and the arts. The Dance with Disability workshop is based around a philosophy entirely based on the opportunity for any individual to experience share and develop their own style direction and movement vocabulary.

CERTIFICATE IN DEVELOPMENTAL MOVEMENT FOR CHILDREN
CHER MATHER
The Introductory course in Sherborne Developmental Movement (SDM) provides participants with an overview of SDM and its applications. The underlying theory and philosophy is discussed, including a brief explanation of its roots in Laban's work, and participants have the opportunity to develop and extend personal movement vocabulary within the structure provided by Veronica Sherborne in practical workshop-type sessions. Also included is a brief history of Veronica Sherborne and the Sherborne Association. The Introductory course is part of an extensive training program; information about this will be available for those interested in extending their knowledge of SDM.
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TOOLBOX FOR CHOREOGRAPHY
ANNA CARLISLE
The workshops will focus on ways of translating themes and ideas into dance material and introduce devices for developing and shaping phrases and sequences into compositional form. An emphasis on music/sound accompaniment for dance will feature as an integral part of the workshops, as will an introduction to aspects of dance analysis - evaluation and appreciation – of dance as a communicative art.

DANCE AND DANCE PERFORMANCE IN A COMMUNITY CONTEXT
CATHY O’KENNEDY
The workshop will focus on the experience of those who interact with dance in a community context and on the place of the art of dance in this relationship. It will include dance-making techniques and practices including composition and improvisation. The work is informed by contemporary dance and release techniques and will use Laban’s principals of movement as a framework throughout.

BACK TO BASICS - ON TO DANCE
ANN WARD
An introduction to, or revision of, Laban Fundamentals, will provide the material for creating a dance together.

DANCE DRAMA
SUSIE THORNTON
The group will explore and devise ways of performing an exciting tale from Ovid using movement, sound and voice: mystery, mayhem and murder!

LABAN STUDIES
SAM THORNTON
These sessions will focus on Laban’s distinctive appreciation of body awareness and his classification of the personal ‘effort’ characteristics which are particular to each individual.

MUSIC FOR DANCE
WENDY HERMELIN
Using a variety of musical styles and looking at different approaches to using music as an accompaniment for dance - creating short dance pieces in groups to perform for each other.

MOVEMENT CHOIR
SAM THORNTON/ WENDY HERMELIN
A movement choir has been described as “an unforgettable experience”. Large groups moving with a common purpose, generate an energy, which is distinctive and remarkable. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. It can be compared to the blending of different voices in a massed choir. This event will provide an opportunity for the whole course to dance and be together in a stimulating and unique way.

CRITICAL VOICES
CAROL LYNNE MOORE
As part of Critical Voices series of talks and critical events, Kinetic Reflex and Kildare County Arts Service will present a lecture on Movement Pattern Analysis by Carol-Lynne Moore on August 8th at NUI Maynooth. The lecture is part of a series on The Intelligent Body and “kinaesthetic intelligence”, which will examine areas where dance meets science, business and education.

Over the past 25 years, Carol-Lynne has lectured extensively in the US and Europe on Laban theory, including Movement Pattern Analysis, an assessment of executive decision-making style developed from industrial and managerial movement studies by Laban, F.C. Lawrence and Warren Lamb. Her publications include Executives in Action (MacDonald & Evans, 1982) and, with Kaoru Yamamoto, Beyond Words: Movement Observation and Analysis (Gordon & Breach, 1988).

Other contributors in the Critical Voice series include Kitsou Dubois, a French choreographer that works in developing efficient movement for astronauts in zero gravity. She will make a presentation at Meeting House Square and Project Arts Centre Dublin on September 12th to 14th and also American educationalist Sherry Shapiro.