Workshops
This workshop invites us to reconnect again and listen more closely to our bodies.
Following tasks designed to heighten individual awareness, we’ll begin improvising along collective lines, expanding our ability to negotiate between internal and external impulses in the moment. Process is prioritised and imaginative exchange is encouraged.
Suitable for: dance professionals and theatre practitioners with movement experience
After the workshop, join Aristide Rontini for an artist Q&A at 1pm chaired by Darren Carr, Vice Principal & Director of Studies at NSCD. Entry to the Q&A is included in the workshop.
Tickets:FREE
This workshop and Q&A concludes a residency at NSCD, made possible through Open Dialogo, a bilateral cultural exchange project managed by Stopgap Dance Company and commissioned by Arts Council England, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Cultural Institute of London and the British Council to promote sharing of knowledge and experiences between disabled and non-disabled artists working in England and Italy. With support from Yorkshire Dance and Northern Ballet.
Aristide Rontini is an Italian dancer and choreographer and a founding member of the Italian disabled artists/activists group Al Di Qua who are leading the way in advocating for the autonomy and rights of disabled artists in Italy. Rontini’s research questions the dimension of identity, the relationships between individuals and society and of nature and human beings. He graduated as a dancer from Codarts Rotterdam in 2010 and has worked with Simona Bertozzi (IT), Candoco Dance Company (UK), Alessandro Carboni (IT), Alessandro Schiattarella/BewegGrund (CH), Teatro Della Tosse (IT), Michela Lucenti/Balletto Civile (IT), Angelica Liddell (SP), Carl Olof Berg/Spinn (SV), Vahan Badalyan (Armenia) and Diego Tortelli/Aterballetto (IT). In the past few years he has developed his own artistic projects, such as “It moves me”, “Giovane Notturno”, “Talitha Kumi”, “Alexis” and “Alexis 2.0” and “Lampyris Noctiluca”.
