Course One:
Morning Releasing warm-up sessions
Falling Wide Easter Intensive 2007
Mon 23rd - Fri 27th April: 9 - 10am


Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is the pioneering approach to dancing that facilitates a deep kinesthetic experience of movement. By engaging the imagination and involving the whole self, natural alignment and freedom of movement is rediscoverd. In Releasing classes, students are guided with poetic imagery that is interwoven with music and sound to tap into the imagination and trigger spontaneous improvised movement. Images in Releasing act as kinesthetic metaphors for technical principles such as multi-direction alignment, suppleness, suspension and economy - in this process, technical growth and creative unfoldment are integrated.

The Releasing process reveals the natural grace in every human being - reflecting a key principle in the practice that we are all born dancers. SRT is for all those with an interest in exploring their creativity through moving: professional dance artists, newcomers and beginners alike.

Course Teachers

Joe Moran is a London-based dance artist. He makes performances independently and as part of London art group, Intimate Contenders. He is currently researching improvisation into choreography with support from Chisenhale Dance Space and developing new works with dancers in London and Coventry. His solo My Father's Grace will premier at Siobhan Davies Studios in March 2007. Joe curates performances and workshops extensively and is a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique. This Spring, he will teach Releasing and improvisation at Chisenhale Dance Space, Coventry University, for Independent Dance at Siobhan Davies Studios and as part of the Falling Wide Easter Intensive.

Florence Peake is Florence Peake is a London-based dance artist and painter. She has worked extensively as a performer with a wide and varied range of choreographers, filmmakers and performance artists including Gaby Agis, Jane Turner, Gary Stevens and Miranda Pennell. Florence has created work of an interdisciplinary nature independently and in collaboration with other artists since 1998, which has been performed nationally and internationally; recent works includes Paper Portrait (Siobhan Davies Studios), Night Studio (Chelsea Space) and The Bird Trilogy (Prague Fringe Festival). She is a certified SRT teacher and has taught dance at Independent Dance, DanceXchange, Dance Mission San Francisco, Academy for Cultural Studies in Latvia, International Workshop Festival, Laban and The Circus Space. She currently lectures at Middlesex University.


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