Casglu is a monthly space for professional dancers and movement practitioners to come together, explore their craft and learn from established industry leaders.
In this session, Jane will offer scores and structures for improvisation. Inspired by the natural elements, we will layer their qualities, imagery and dynamics to explore dances rich in possibility, form and expression. Within the session there’ll be space for dancing solo, with others, for writing and drawing.
Improvisation through movement and dance has much potential to teach us about self, others and ways of being in the world, whilst taking care of ourselves and following our own appetites and interests for moving. This session offers a space to be with your own dancing, guided and supported by the presence of others.
Jane McLean is a dance artist, facilitator and creative leader. She works with improvisation, touch, poetry and mark making to cultivate presence, attention and curiosity and to create dances with people of all ages and abilities. As the Creative Director of Cheshire Dance she champions the importance of embodied knowledge and of valuing, celebrating and amplifying the creative expression of people from underrepresented communities.
Drawing on twenty years of experience she facilitates one to ones, classes and workshops, offers mentoring and support for artists, creates performance and leads programmes and projects of different sizes and scopes, currently with a focus on people labelled as having profound and multiple learning disabilities and artist development.
Enquiries into anatomy, presence, attention to sensation, use of energy and focus support all of her work – though the forms the work takes continually evolve.
Find out more about Jane’s work here.
