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Please note that these workshops are limited to 5 people and pre-booking is required to attend. You may choose to attend one, some or all of the series. Register via eventbrite link here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dance-into-darkness-tickets-172197225537

This six part themed workshop series offers playful ways to explore the moving body as an art-making and storytelling medium fostering wellbeing.

As we move through Autumn into the depths of the Winter season, like the trees shedding their leaves, you may find yourself letting go of what no longer serves and turning your attention inward. These workshops draw inspiration from the Japanese Butoh dance form founded by Hijikata Tatsumi, and invite you to turn to your moving body, to embrace the dance into darkness of the coming months. For it is in darkness that we dream and birth the new. Each workshop offers guided slow somatic movement working with different themes, non-human animals and the elements, gentle ways of tracing sensations on the skin as a way of listening to the inner self and witnessing, as well as expressing emotions, through gesture. Each session closes with mark-making or creative writing and storytelling.

Accessibility

I strive to make my events accessible and inclusive to all people of adult age regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, race and ability. No previous experience of dance or movement is needed for these workshops. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your needs to participate in these workshops.

*If Covid-19 lockdown-related government guidelines prevent these workshops from happening in person, they will go ahead and be delivered online via Zoom instead.

Cancellation

Refunds are available on a case-by-case basis, depending on your circumstances and reason for requesting the refund. If you wish to cancel your booking more than 7 days before the event and I am able to offer the place to a waiting list applicant you will be offered a full refund. You are also free to find your own replacement.

I will not be able to offer a refund if we are not able to find a suitable replacement and/or your cancellation request occurs within 7 days of the start date of the workshop.

Covid-19 related clauses

A limited number of 5 participants means that at the time of advertising this workshop – I will be able to deliver this workshop in line with current government distancing-related guidelines. The cabin is further ventilated and supplied with air purifiers.

In the case of this workshop having to be delivered online, it is the participants' responsibility to ensure they have access to a stable internet connection and can make use of Zoom. No refunds will be offered in the event of a participants’ internet connection causing them to lose access to the workshop.

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About the Facilitator

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​Fabienne is a creative practitioner working with the moving body as a restorative practice to foster sustainable ways of living and enhance well-being. She is also a practice-led doctoral researcher with the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths College where she is currently performing embodied research in the field of Mad Studies. Her work approaches experiences of distress as ecologically entangled and explores the body, through dance movement improvisation, as an art-making and storytelling medium.