Florence Peake: Movement Workshop Series
SPACE Mare Street
Sat 9, 16, 23 & 30 April, 2 - 5pm
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Drawing on somatic dance practices including contact improvisation, Skinner Releasing Technique and Peake’s own art and dance background this series of workshops delve into the creative potential of movement, as well as its relationship to voice.
Incorporating writing, drawing, voice and movement these exploratory and playful sessions will include invited expert guests and are open to all. No prior dance or art experience required.
On 23 April, Peake will be joined by guest Seke Chimutengwende who works in dance as a performer, choreographer and teacher.
Tickets are available for all 4 sessions, but it will also be possible to drop into individual sessions on the day if space is available. Tickets for these will be £15 on the door.
Please email nathalie@spacestudios.org.uk to inquire about single ticket availability.
“I am very happy to have discovered a whole world of movement I knew nothing about and hope to explore in much more detail, thanks!”
- Florence Peake: Movement Workshop participant 2015
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Florence Peake is a London-based artist and choreographer. With extensive training in dance and a background in painting, her performance practice combines a variety of media—from drawing to sculpture—in relationship to the moving body. Site and audience, live and recorded text, wit and humour are key to her work.
Her interdisciplinary projects, made both independently and collaboratively, have been exhibited and performed nationally and internationally since 1995 in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Prague, Sweden and Latvia. Peake’s work has also been commissioned and shown at prestigious venues such as the National Portrait Gallery (2008), National Review of Live Art (2009), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2012), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (2013) and Hayward Gallery (2014).
