Viola Bruni Artist-Led Session: Devising from Images
3 hour movement workshop for dancers, choreographers, movement enthusiasts, and artists from diverse backgrounds who seek to expand their creative boundaries and explore new dimensions of dance and spatial expression that can incorporate images in the process. Through a series of exercises and explorations based on Checkov and Laban practices, attendees will:
- Develop the ability to analyse images and identify spatial sensations, emotions, characters, and themes within them.
- Explore different ways to bridge the gap between the visual and the kinaesthetic to translate emotions, stories, and ideas from the still images to movement.
- Practice how to compose a movement sequence based on one or more images.
A series of printed images will be provided but artists are welcome to use photography they have taken themselves, own works of art, or other found images as a creative prompt that they find inspiring.
A remote session via Zoom will be held on Tuesday 21 November at 10am for those that cannot attend in-person or would prefer to meet online. Please click here for more information and how to book.
Part of Sadler’s Wells Artist Development Programme: Artist-Led Sessions. You can find out more about the selection process for this programme online here.
Viola Bruni
Viola Bruni is an Italian creative trained in Movement Direction & Teaching (RCSSD, London) and in Directing Circus & Physical Theatre (Circomedia, Bristol). Their practice stems from 20+ years as a contemporary dancer and circus aerialist, and seven as movement director for theatre, film, and circus. Since 2016, they have worked as Movement Director and Choreographer in London and Bristol for theatre, film, circus, dance, and music videos.
They have taught workshops and classes at Circomedia, Forgotten Circus School, UAL/Central St Martins, Scuola di Piccolo Circo, Courtyard Theatre Training Company, Stratford Circus, and many others. They directed movement at Boomtown, Breakin Convention, Camden Fringe, Scoop Theatre, RCSSD, and East 15. They created choreography for artist Megan Broadmeadow and music producer/dj Ehua (Nervous Horizon), as well as mentoring DYCP funded performers and working as outside eye and creation assistant for various circus productions.
Recently, they completed their training as an Embodied Meditation teacher with Embodiment Unlimited. Viola is the founder of Flow&Radiate, from which they offer creative and wellbeing services to the performing industry.
Performances
Age 16 - 30?
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