Moving the Image - Gaby Agis
London Skinner Releasing Easter School 2006
Week One Afternoon Intensive


This workshop will be deeply informed by the practice of Skinner Releasing Technique that we will explore each morning. We will allow images to arise and investigate ways to take them into form, in both solo and group dancing. Collectively, we will share in the process of ‘making with images’.

Gaby Agis is one of the pioneers of collaborative performance in Britain, working with leading artists of her generation from other disciplines in galleries, museums and theatres. She founded Gaby Agis & Company in 1985 and the artists she has worked with are Turner Prize nominee Isaac Julien, sculptors Kate Blacker and Cornelia Parker, composers David Sylvian and Gavin Bryars, architects Muf, and the director Atom Eyogan. Notably, she was choreographer of Atom Eyogan’s production of Gavin Bryars’ opera Doctor Ox’s Experiment for the English National Opera, and in 2000 she was commissioned to choreograph a piece for the Royal Opening of the Millennium Bridge in 2001. Among her recent work is Explicit Faith that played to sell-out houses in July 2004 at LSO St. Luke’s creating a “new venue on the dance map” (Time Out) and Touch Un-Sited, which was performed as part of the celebrations for Architecture Week 2005.

Gaby is a recipient of numerous public awards including a Distinguished Visitors Award from the US Government. Her wider involvements include Independent Dance, the Ripe Nights seasons at the Union Chapel, artist discussions for the South Bank Centre, and numerous curatorial roles at Chisenhale Dance Space, as well as extensive teaching.

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