NSCD Events, Workshops
Join us for morning professional level class as part of CoLab North: a Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund (BBCF) programme in partnership with Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD).
Open to local professional artists, recent graduates and those in full time training.
Find out more about the CoLab North Programme here
Tickets:£5
| Date(s) | Time | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 of CoLab | ||
| Tuesday 19 August | 9am – 10:15am | Tiia Ourila-Thorpe (Mad Dogs) |
| Wednesday 20 August | 9am – 10:15am | Tiia Ourila-Thorpe (Mad Dogs) |
| Thursday 21 August | 9am - 10am | Xiaoyi Tong |
| Friday 22 August | 9am - 10am | Xiaoyi Tong |
| Week 2 of CoLab | ||
| Tuesday 26 August | 9am - 10am | Lewys Holt |
| Wednesday 27 August | 9am - 10am | Keira Martin |
| Thursday 28 August | 9am - 10am | Keira Martin |
| Friday 29 August | 9am - 10am | Lewys Holt |
Tiia creates a welcoming atmosphere for dancers to be curious and playful in their movements. The classes explore movement possibilities in all planes and levels, finding efficient pathways and patterns to help achieve sense of ease in moving. The movement material employs the dancer to discover their movement potential and further develop their articulacy and expression. The dancer is encouraged to move with a clear intension from a place of connection and awareness. The class is a space for dancers to connect and dance together and they are invited to find joy and inspiration in dancing together.
Photo credit: Douglas Thorpe
A highly dynamic session combining release and breath techniques into rich movement phrases, inspired by the fusion of Eastern and Western perspectives on the body.
Photo Credit: yuelin yang @yl_yueliny
Lewys’ class will guide participants through an assemblage of focuses and instructions such as ‘move your hands and feet towards and away from your centre’. These instructions taken on their own, may appear simple but when combined, layered on top of one another, perhaps in tension or contrast to one another, create a web of elements, forces and directions within and without the body which often result in complex full-bodied dancing. Lewys will then encourage ways of noticing and enjoying the ways that your dances always already intersect with the dances of the others in the room, asking participants to indulge in these crossings and coincidences to form explosive and tender improvised group dances.
Photo credit: Tim Dunk
Embodied Technique & Cross-Cultural Practice
Start your day with an energizing, full-spectrum physical practice. Keira’s class offers a dynamic integration of contemporary technique, somatic awareness, and rhythmically driven movement rooted in her cross-cultural Irish dance lineage. Expect a grounded, whole-body warm-up that activates core strength, articulates the spine, and builds toward expansive, rhythmically complex phrases.
This class blends release-based technique with percussive footwork, spatial clarity, and dynamic transitions—designed to refine physical precision, enhance musicality, and cultivate embodied presence. Keira’s approach supports dancers in arriving fully in their bodies, ready for rehearsal, performance, or creative work.
Photo Credit: Joe Armitage @boneshakerphotography
