Due to the popularity and success of this course last year, and the wonderful feedback from participants, Orient Productions, Studio Emad Eddin and Zosia Jo offered a series of dancing the self’s workshops for women only.
Level 1; Participants learned tools for connecting to their body and releasing symptoms of daily stress, received instruction on foundation somatic dance techniques and practiced improvisation and worked on developing confidence and creative expression with their bodies.
Level 2; Open to anyone who has taken level 1, at any time, this week-long workshop built on the techniques and confidence they have gained and offered a new challenge, with more complex sequences and improvisations. There were lots of chances to dance together, express oneself and create one’s own movements as well as celebrating one’s own unique movement style.
Level 3; Open to those students who’ve completed Dancing The Self Level 1 & 2, this three-day workshop focused on taking the confidence they’ve created and moving and shaking it! Participants learned a somatic sequence to warm up and move into solo, contact and group improvisations that reminds one to move with the whole self: body, mind and heart.
Performance workshop; Open to students who’ve completed levels 1, 2 and 3 AND women with previous dance experience, this has been the culmination of the Dancing The Self program. The participants warmed up with a technique class and used structured improvisations and creative tasks to create their own version of Zosia’s solo work (Un)Covered. They then performed it at Falaki Theatre for an invited audience at the end of the course. It was a solo for 20 dancers- ‘(Un)Covered en-masse.’*
Level 1 from 13th – 17th of March 2017 at Studio Emad Eddin
Level 3, Post Continued from 21st – 23rd of March 2017 at Studio Emad Eddin
Level 1 from 26th – 30th of March 2017 at Studio Emad Eddin
Performance workshop from 21st – 27th of April 2017 at Studio Emad Eddin & Falaki Theater
Level 2 from 4th -18th of May 2017 at Studio Emad Eddin
Level 1 from 21st – 25th of May 2017 at Studio Emad Eddin
Level 2 from 14th – 23rd of June 2017 at Studio Emad Eddin
*Made between the UK and Egypt, (Un)Covered is a dance theatre action exploring who we are as women inside our clothes. How we can embody empowerment, against the politicization, violence and control society imposes on our bodies, via the clothes we wear. This issue connects us all, across borders and transcending cultural difference. The freedom is not in what you wear or don’t wear- it’s in the choice. So, rise up and let’s dance!