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Accumulatively
over the week, the course will explore movement into and out of
the floor, into space and into and out of a partner or partners
as a means of offering pathways to facilitate open and unhindered
dancing. Andrea Buckley has been extensively performing, teaching, making dances and working with diverse community groups in various contexts. After Graduating Laban Centre, in 1989 she went on to work with independent choreographers and companies on a project basis. To include MacLennan Dance & Company, Rosemary Lee, Gill Clarke and Siobhan Davies Dance Company. Improvisation and contact work has been her main source of inspiration travelling abroad to work with Kirstie Simson and Nancy Stark Smith to continue to explore the work in performance. As well as working with CH4PTER Andrea currently is creating a new solo performance piece with film artist Danny Williams and is a visiting lecturer at Hope University, Liverpool. Charlie
Morrissey trained in dance and choreography at Dartington
College of Arts in the late 1980's under teachers including Katie
Duck, Sasha Walz, Jaap Flier, Steve Paxton and Laurie Booth. Since
1991, he has been performing, directing, teaching and researching
in the UK and in many other countries around the world. He works
with improvisation and set works in large and small-scale site specific,
theatre and gallery based performance events, collaborating with
artists from other fields. His work is influenced and fed by ongoing
and newer working relationships with Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson,
Kirstie Simson, Scott Smith, K.J.Holmes, Gill Clarke, Becky Edmunds,
Henry Montes, Christoph Lechner, Christian Burns and Kate Brown
amongst others. Charlie co-directs the site specific performance
company Small Wonder with Paul Harrington, creating movement-based
performance for unusual outdoor and indoor spaces with professional
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