Workshop: Claire Cunningham
This workshop looks at methods and concepts underpinning Claire Cunningham’s performative and choreographic practices, focusing on aspects of awareness/presence, perception and individuality.
Investigating through movement, language, writing, watching, listening and feeling, how difference – of physicality or lived experience– and diversity can both inform and shape our perception, of self, of other and of our environment and how this in turn can shape performance.
This workshop is open to people of diverse physicalities and sensory modalities.
Information:
Date: Monday 20.01.25
Time: 10:00-13:00
For: Disabled and non-disabled individuals (above age 16 and with some experience in movement).
Language: English
The workshop is free
Dressing rooms are not available and there is no space to do individual warm up before the workshop.
Registration: billettsalg@dansenshus.com (registration deadline is 15.01.25 at 16:00)
Please let us know of any access requirements in advance.
Bio:
Claire Cunningham is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performance based in Glasgow, Scotland. One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Cunningham’s work is often rooted in the study and use/misuse of her crutches and the exploration of the potential of her own specific physicality with a conscious rejection of traditional dance techniques (developed for non-disabled bodies). This runs alongside a deep interest in the lived experience of disability and its implications not only as a choreographer but also in terms of societal notions of knowledge, value, connection and interdependence. Most recently, in 2021, Claire was honoured for her Outstanding Artistic Development in Dance at the German Dance Awards. In October 2023, Claire joined the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) in Berlin as the Einstein Professor of “Choreography, Dance and Disability Arts”. Claire premiered a new solo work, Songs of the Wayfarer in November ’24