Date: Monday 4 October to Wednesday 6 October, 2010
Time: 10am to 4pm
Cost: FREE
Registration:This workshop is exclusively for choreographers and dancers. Up to 12 places available.
Location: Critical Path, Rushcutters Bay More information
Ruth Gibson has been practicing the Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) for the past 20 years. She has just finished the first part of her instructor training and will be leading a workshop for choreographers and dancers that is informed by this technique.
Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is an innovative approach to dance and movement training developed by Joan Skinner in the early 1960s. SRT utilizes image-guided floor work to ease tension and promote an effortless kind of moving, integrated with alignment of the whole self. Tactile exercises are used to give the imagery immediate kinesthetic effect; spontaneous movement is frequently evoked by imagery and movement studies. SRT smoothly integrates technical growth with creative process. Through the 1970s, Releasing technique was taught by Joan and the American Contemporary Dance Company, primarily in Seattle, Washington. The work continues to be taught and practiced today, deeply influencing many contemporary movement artists.
'Skinner Releasing practices letting go: letting go of stress, letting go of unnecessary holding in our body, letting go of preconceptions about what is supposed to happen, letting go of fear of awkwardness, letting go of the belief that we don't have the right body for dancing. We let go of habitual holding patterns and habitual ways of thinking in order to let something new happen.'
For more information on the technique and further readings go to http://www.skinnerreleasing.com/articles.html.
Ruth Gibson (UK) is a dancer, choreographer and media artist, as well co-director and founder of Igloo, UK. Ruth's visit is supported by a Lisa Ullman Travelling Scholarship and she is an AHRC Creative Fellow. More about Ruth Gibson here.
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