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Is a free-to-attend event for experienced dance teachers from a range of fields and styles, curated by BOTH Dance Classes with support from Arts Council England.

DANCE CLASSES, WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIUMS FOR EXPERIENCED TEACHERS

BOTH Dance Classes is very excited to share that it has been awarded funding from Arts Council England for a new initiative: Teachers' Rehab '22.

This event is designed for experienced dance teachers, over 30 years of age, from a range of dance styles and contexts, to come together and embark on a rich programme with the aim to rejuvenate, get creative and connect.

Following on from the effects of the pandemic on teachers' practices, this intensive will spark creativity and allow teachers to learn new skills in a supportive environment. We want teachers to find commonality in new or varied learning experiences.

Please see below for more information on the event and the exciting teachers and organisations on board to make this all come together with a variety of classes, workshops and symposiums. 

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PROGRAMME OF EVENTS - OVERVIEW

4 Day Intensive

at Siobhan Davies Studios

April 11th - 14th 2022, 9.30am - 6pm

(With a variety of experienced practitioners)

 

3 Sunday Workshops

in various locations

(In collaboration with: Independent Dance; UEL: Dance Practice & London Studio Centre)

 

3 Online Toolkits

from different teaching practitioners

(Available to purchase in the Summer)

 

4 Teachers' Pilot Dance Classes

date & location TBC

(A pilot of weekly technique classes designed for and delivered by experienced dance teachers)

SUPPORTED BY

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CURATED BY

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4-DAY INTENSIVE

DAY 1

MONDAY
APRIL 11th, '22

STUDIO OPENS @ 9AM

TEA MEET & GREET

9:30AM - 10:30AM

INTRO & WARM UP

BOTH - Beatrice & Orley

10:45AM - 12:15AM

RELEASE TECHNIQUE

GUEST - Luke Birch & Musician Ronen

12:15AM - 1:15PM

LUNCH

1:15PM - 1:45PM

OPEN SYMPOSIUM

1:45PM - 3:15PM

IMPROVISATION

GUEST - Rebecca Mackenzie

3:30PM - 5:00PM

HIP HOP

GUEST - Hakeem Onibudo

5:00PM - 6:00PM

WIND DOWN

BOTH - Beatrice & Orley

DAY 2

TUESDAY
APRIL 12th, '22

STUDIO OPENS @ 9AM

TEA MEET & GREET

9:30AM - 10:30AM

INTRO & WARM UP

BOTH - Beatrice & Orley

10:45AM - 12:15AM

LIMÓN TECHNIQUE

GUEST- Nina Atkinson & Musician Nick

12:15AM - 1:15PM

LUNCH

1:15PM - 2:45PM

BEHIND THE MOVEMENT 

GUEST - Jason Reece Boyle

3:05PM - 5:00PM

ANATOMY, MOVEMENT & SAFE CARE

GUEST - Nicky Ellis

5:00PM - 5:30PM

WIND DOWN

BOTH - Beatrice & Orley

DAY 3

WEDNESDAY
APRIL 13th, '22

STUDIO OPENS @ 9AM

TEA MEET & GREET

9:30AM - 10:30AM

INTRO & WARM UP

BOTH - Beatrice & Orley

10:45AM - 12:15AM

SHARING BHARATANATYAM 

GUEST - Stella Subbiah & Musician Bobby

12:15AM - 1:15PM

LUNCH

1:15PM - 2:00PM

SYMPOSIUM

GUEST - Annie Lok

2:15PM - 3:45PM

CREATIVE JAZZ THEATRE

GUEST - Dollie Henry

4:00PM - 5:30PM

AFRO GROOVES

GUEST - Bafana Matea

5:30PM - 6:00PM

WIND DOWN

BOTH - Beatrice & Orley

DAY 4

THURSDAY
APRIL 14th, '22

STUDIO OPENS @ 9AM

TEA MEET & GREET

9:30AM - 10:30AM

INTRO & WARM UP

BOTH - Beatrice & Orley

10:45AM - 12:15AM

LINDY HOP

GUEST - Sunanda Biswas

12:15AM - 1:15PM

LUNCH

1:15PM - 2:45PM

CHOREOGRAPHIC SESSIONS

GUEST - Lea Anderson

3:00PM - 4:45PM

CHOREOGRAPHIC SESSIONS

GUEST - Lea Anderson

5:00PM - 6:00PM

WIND DOWN

BOTH - Beatrice & Orley

3 SUNDAY WORKSHOPS

MAY

12:30PM - 5:30PM

HOST

LONDON STUDIO CENTRE

'DANCE SCIENCE'

VENUE - London Studio Centre

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12:30PM - 12:40PM

WELCOME

Laura Erwin & BOTH

12:40PM - 2:00PM

PILATES BASED CONDITIONING

Astrid Donati

2:00PM - 2:15PM

BREAK

2:15PM - 3:15PM

NUTRITION

Jasmine Challis

3:15PM - 3:45PM

BREAK

3:45PM - 5:20PM

FOAM ROLLING

Laura Erwin

5:20PM - 5:30PM

CLOSING COMMENTS

Laura Erwin & BOTH

JUNE

SUNDAY WORKSHOP
JUNE 12th, '22

1:00PM - 6:00PM

HOST

INDEPENDENT DANCE

WITH STELLA SUBBIAH

VENUE - Siobhan Davies Studios

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1:00PM - 6:00PM

A workshop exploring connections and overlaps between Stella Subbiah’s Bharatnatyam dance/performance practices and Heni Hale’s somatic trainings.

For Full Details

JULY

SUNDAY WORKSHOP
JULY 3rd, '22

12:30PM - 5:30PM

HOST

UEL DANCE: URBAN PRACTICE

'DANCE STYLES & APPROACHES'

VENUE - UEL

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12:30PM - 12:45PM

INTRODUCTION TO THE DAY

AND ACCESS TO FACILITIES

Robert Nicholson

12:45PM - 2:15PM

LOCKING WORKSHOP

Fred Folkes

2:15PM - 2:30PM

BREAK

2:30PM - 3:30PM

BBOY FOUNDATIONS AND PLAY

TrublRoc

3:30PM - 3:45PM

BREAK

3:45PM - 5:15PM

SOCIAL DANCE STYLES

Fred Folkes

5:15PM - 5:30PM

PLENARY

3 ONLINE TOOLKITS

THESE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE IN THE SUMMER.

MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON.

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INTERVIEW LIBRARY

This collection of interviews is part of our Teachers' Rehab 22 (funded by ACE). We interviewed dance teaching artists who have made a significant impact to education and learning.

BOTH Dance Classes meets.../Amy Butler and Hannah Sampson
Amy joined Stopgap in January 2013 and is one of our senior dance artists. In 2019 Amy completed an MA in Developing Artist Practice at London Contemporary Dance School. Other qualifications includea first class honours in BA Performing Arts at London Metropolitan University and a Higher Certificate at London Contemporary Dance school. In 2011 Amy was awarded the Lisa Ullmann Travel Scholarship Fund enabling her to complete an Integral Yoga Qualification at the IYI India. Amy is rehearsal director for Akram Khan company, specifically for the pieces ‘Chotto Xenos’ and ‘Chotto Desh’. She performs the role of Choreographic Consultant for Highly Sprung Performance Company and is choreographic mentor to Christopher Pavia on his latest work ‘The Journey Between’. She has performed for Akram Khan company in the 2012 olympics, Enrique Cabrera (Aracladanza), Helene Blackburn (Cas Public), State of Emergency, Highly Sprung, Ascendance Rep., Jonathan Poole, Motionmanual and Balbir Singh. Her choreographic work includes ‘Slide with the Sun’ performed and toured by SG2, ‘Composition in Time’ for Ramallah festival in Palestine, ‘Outside Spaces, Inside Places’ for Ascendance Rep and two short works for Three Scores. Amy’s teaching experience has seen her work for Ausdance NSW and NASDA in Sydney Australia, Solodos En Danza in Costa Rica, Greenwich Dance Agency, Northern Contemporary Dance School, Laban, Phoenix Dance Theatre, RAD, Yorkshire Dance and many other international companies. Amy’s first collaboration with Stopgap was Artificial Things. Since then she has collaborated on The Enormous Room, Bill and Bobby, The Seafarers, and with Sg2 on The Awakening. Hannah has been involved with Stopgap for a number of years, firstly as an original member of Stopgap’s Youth Company and from 2010 as an Apprentice Dancer. In 2013 Hannah became the original member of Sg2 and graduated in 2016 into the main touring team. She also toured a number of countries nationally and internationally as an apprentice and touring member of the main company. Hannah danced in Chris Pavia’s choreographic works Shadowed Voices (performed at schools and conferences across UK, as well as Albania for the Albanian President in 2010), Captured by the Dark (Resolution! 2013 at the Place, London) and The Awakening (2014, Southbank London). From Sg2, Hannah had collaborated on Exhibition, The Awakening and Night at the Theatre (choreographed by Tim Casson). She was a guest artist for Stopgap in our outdoor work Tracking, SPUN Productions and Seafarers. From 2016-17, she took part in the indoor production The Enormous Room. She’s now currently collaborating with other dance artists in our recent outdoor work FROCK.
BOTH Dance Classes meets.../Donna Schoenherr
Donna was born in Rochester, NY receiving a superb extensive comprehensive training under full scholarship with internationally renowned dance luminaries on staff including Patricia Wilde, Anton Dolin, George Zoritch, David Gayle, Fernando Bujones, Woytek Lowski, Valentina Pereyaslavec, Leon Danielian, Miguel Lopez, Jurgen Schneider at the prestigious Botsford School. Her formative training continued in New York at the David Howard Dance Center and the Melissa Hayden School of Dance under full scholarships, training intensively with Melissa and David. After a long and successful career as a professional ballet dancer and a contemporary dancer in Europe and the US in companies such as Cleveland Ballet, Dance Express, Michael Mao Dance Co, and Dance Company Giessen, Donna went on to develop an impressive portfolio of work as a guest teacher, choreographer, rehearsal director, private mentor, and successful entrepreneur. Over the last 4 decades, she has been a frequent guest teacher at leading American and European dance schools, festivals and companies. She held a post at the Millenium Performing Arts school for 3 years in London and guest taught at other dance institutions in London. Her choreography has been commissioned and performed internationally and is used in films and advertising and her Repertory has over 12 full works in it. Her new work to Cecilia McDowall's music premiered in June 2022 in West London. https://ceciliamcdowall.co.uk/ After the birth of her son, in 2004 she founded what was to become Ballet4life®. Her vision was to create an inspiring organisation that would pioneer top quality dance education for adults on a vocational level. Her 1st ballet class for adults in London was offered in January 2004 to eager adult learners in a studio at Rambert Dance Company's former location in Chiswick. 18 years later, Ballet4life® is a well-established and thriving institution, with daily classes both online and in-person and has delivered dance to thousands of Londoners. Driven by decades of personal resonance, passion, and research, Donna created and founded Move into Wellbeing® in 2014. MIW attained charitable status in 2017, Registered Charity 1172264. She has directed and managed this since its inception. Donna is forever grateful to every person who supported her vision and assisted in her endeavours to make this all happen and to all involved in her inspirational organisation. MIW offers unique dance, movement and exercise classes to people living with Parkinson's and a diverse range of other mobility restrictions and wellness issues. This charity is a living legacy to her father Gerard E Schoenherr and brings joy and relief to hundreds each week with classes in over 9 venues and also online. At the Hounslow Business Award 2018, MIW was Commended in the Best Charity category, it won the 2019 Atul Pathak Community Award.
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