MONDAY MORNING CLASs
Our classes support the continuous training and development of experienced movers and professional dance artists. They take place weekly on a Monday morning in term time.
GATHER UP invites different Bristol-based practitioners to lead a block of classes with an intention to host a programme that offers a variety of contemporary dance approaches, techniques and interests.
See below to learn more about upcoming classes and the specific offer from the lead artists.
Time: Studio is open from 9.40am, class time is 10-11.30am, with time to stretch and meet 11.30-12:00.
Location: Bristol Old Vic
Booking: Book in advance to secure your place via Headfirst. Pay-what-you-decide with a min. price of £5.00 + 50p booking fee (donated to a Bristol-based charity via Headfirst).
Realise you can’t make it?: We try our best to price our classes and workshops fairly and offer good value for money. To ensure the viability of our programme we do not offer refunds. However, you can put your ticket up for resale if the event is fully booked or you can arrange to transfer your ticket to a friend using the Headfirst booking system.
Waiting List: When an event is sold out, a waiting list will be set up, should you wish to join it and be informed when a ticket gets released.
Access: Get in touch if you have access needs that we could support you with: info.gatherup@gmail.com
Creative Audio Description: If you are a visually impaired dancer planning to attend a class, you may like to book a free Creative Audio Describer to provide you with 1-1 support during the class. Please get in touch if you would like to request this support.
Care Pot: the Care Pot exists to offer cash support towards childcare, parking, travel, access or other extra costs that may surround coming to these classes. Take a read and please be in touch with how we could cover some of your extra costs so that you can come along and participate.
Rest: Our spaces are rest welcome. There are various benches, seats and corners in the studio or you are always welcome to leave the studio for a break.
MORNING CLASS WITH ANNIE KELLEHER
Image Description: a colour photograph of a female dancer with long ginger hair dances in loose white clothing. She is in a deep squat with arms raised above her head.
ABOUT ANNIE:
Annie Kelleher (AK) is a dancer & choreographer based in Bristol. She trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD), receiving a first-class honours degree, & followed this by completing Jasmin Vardimon Company’s JV2: Professional Development Diploma. As a choreographer, AK is passionate about creating socially- engaged work that captures the current zeitgeist. Her work has been performed at Sadler's Wells Lilian Baylis Studio Theatre, FLOCKFEST, The Middle Floor, Centre for Live Art Yorkshire & the Riley Theatre.
Annie has toured nationally as a performer with Excessive Human Collective, AKA Dance Company and Anatomical Creations; small to mid scale companies that centre care and social responsibility. She's also performed works by Jasmin Vardimon, Anthony Matsena and Joseph Mercier in her training. She's been freelancing since 2021 working as a dancer, release technique teacher, community artist and choreographer.
ABOUT CLASS:
With these 3 sessions I will continue my work on creating a playful release technique class. These 3 classes will lean into improvisation more heavily than I have previously so will be less of a codified technique class.
We'll use aspects of games, social dance and improvisation tasks to create a sense of play whilst invigorating your body and building a sense of community. The class will include touch and some floor work.
@annie_kelleher_dance
Image credit: Elly Welford - @ellywelphotography
MORNING CLASS WITH LINZY NANAKORN
Image decsription: A black and white image of Linzy, full length mid-move. She is standing with her upper body tilting, the wing span of her arms outstretched one arm to the ceiling, the other towards the ground. Her brown hair hanging down and ruffled in motion. The image is a mirrored featuring Linzy twice. She wears a black sleeveless top and lighter full length trousers.
ABOUT LINZY:
Linzy Na Nakorn is a dance artist/movement director and community organiser bridging the fields of dance and activism. As a dancer/performer she has danced for Jo Fong, Frantic Assembly, Protein Dance, Seven Sisters Dance Company, Velcro Collective, This Egg, Holly Thomas & Bittersuite UK among others. As an educator she has facilitated classes for Chisenhale Dance Space, Gather Up, CD60 Harringay & Bernie Grants Arts Centre, Trinity Laban and has held visiting lecturer positions in dance, movement for theatre and immersive practice at University of Bristol, Dulwich College Seoul, South Korea, Malvern College of Art, Bath University and Bristol School of Acting.
Her recent work has been centred around movement building through community gathering using collaborative, participatory and mixed form creative practice. She is a politicised somatic practitioner exploring movement and body work as a container for sustained resilience and regenerative practice for organisers working in social justice. Movement Direction credits include LA Rep for Frantic Assembly, Luca Rutherford, The Wardrobe Theatre, Sharp Teeth, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal Stratford East and The Egg Theatre, Bath
Linzy is part of INTERVAL, a cooperatively run artists collective based in the heart of Bristol.
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Join Linzy for a high energy, joyful and collaborative class exploring structured improvisation as a tool for expanding into a dynamic movement vocabulary. We will begin warming into the body from the inside out through movement sequences that work from the organs, bone, muscle and skin before playfully expanding our dance by using movement games, creative prompts and structured improvisation for instant composition.
We will work in and out of the floor, individually, as a whole class, in smaller groups and in pairs. Some tactile prompts will be offered.
Suitable for those with a professional movement practice.
@nanakorn_moving
MORNING CLASS WITH JAN-MING LEE
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CLASS INFO:
Jan-Ming’s classes will draw from an improvisation-based approach informed by her background in somatics, dance/physical theatre, and her ongoing practices in Daoist internal energy arts, Capoeira and Contact Improvisation.
She will use anatomical references as well as our perceived relation to gravity to guide the direction of our energy as we begin to warm up our physical/emotional space inside and outside our bodies. Responding to the individuals in the class, she will offer a mixture of slower paced somatic scores as well as faster paced travelling improv scores. We will set up our bodily intelligence to respond and notice the speed of attention and capacity at which we choose to traverse the space between each other.
Depending on time, there will be some invitations to use touch/contact which will be clearly demonstrated and alternative options will always be possible. Choice and consent will be a key element of the exercises. All material is offered so that each dancer can attend to their own particular needs and body choices. Translation is encouraged so that material may look different for each person.
ABOUT JAN-MING:
Jan-Ming is a 2nd-generation British-Chinese dance artist who loves to work in the spaces in-between things, in the movements of transition and translation between different known worlds. She has devised and choreographed for ensembles, led improvisation scores for site-specific work, created spoken word and sound poetry performance, improvised music for theatre and dance productions, and designed and performed installation-based work. Some venues she has shown work include Victoria & Albert Museum & Tate Modern.
In the last few years she focused on choreographic and movement facilitation projects celebrating cultural differences and re-imagining mythologies. She is a member of Interval artists collective in Bristol; and is a practicing somatic bodyworker, certified in The Pantarei Approach.
@janleeuk