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An online workshop to explore 2D mark-making in relation to improvisation and movement.
(Limited spots available) Join us on Sunday March 3 at 6pm (UK time) for an online workshop explorig the connection between senses and different approaches to experiment with movement improvisation. Hosted by Jamila Boughelaf, the online workshop will give attendees the opportunity to participate from their own space to experiment with visual mark making, movement styles and personal improvisation methods that they can share with others (or choose to keep for themselves).
By focusing on sound, or lack of it, participants will be asked to visualise sound and represent it bi-dimensionally through mark making. The marks captured materially will then be used as a starting point for movement improvisation with no sound. The exercise will then build on what already developed to work on a short improvisation piece with the original sound / music.
As we witness the unimaginable circumstances in Palestine, we’d like to encourage you to hold space for our Palestinian participants, keeping in mind that this session is developed with that intention in mind. Supporting our community through this moment in every way we know how including processing difficult emotions, learning, organising and holding space as a priority.
Online Workshops are held monthly as part of Commun People, a programme that advocates for emerging Global Majority voices to participate in the Arts while strengthening their skills and widening their employment opportunities. By encouraging critical discourse, peer mentoring, practical and creative development, the programme will support Global Majority voices to develop their practice and overcome often exclusionary barriers to initiating or sustaining a career in the Arts.
Jamila is one of the founding members of Hawiyya Dance Company, a culturally diverse all-women’s group who explore identity, culture and resistance through dance. In addition to dancing contemporary and Palestinian dance ‘Dabke’ since 2012 as part of the acclaimed UK based Al-Zaytouna Dance Theatre Troupe, she has undertaken training in other disciplines, such as ‘Afro-dabke’ with Palestinian dancer and choreographer Sharaf DarZaid, and ‘Folk dances of North Africa’ with Algerian-American dancer and choreographer Esraa Warda. Jamila fully produced and performed in ‘Curfew’, a contemporary dance production developed in collaboration with El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe and performed in London (March 2018 and July 2022), Ramallah (April 2019) and Liverpool (July 2022), and supported by the Arts Council England and British Council. Jamila is also co-founder of Bahatha Theatre, a dance-theatre group exploring the multi-faceted nature of Algerian Identity and the challenges faced by the Algerian diaspora at current times.
Supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Bagri Foundation
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MEMBERS NOTE: If you are a member of the 1 Year Plan on our website and all spots are taken for this online workshop, send us an email or dm on instagram and we’ll register you for free :)