Lorea Burge (In) Company with Steph McMann
(In) Company Morning classes are curated by Lorea Burge as part of their research within the Rose Choreographic School. Lorea invites artists that inspire and complement their practice to facilitate a class at the start of their working studio day. These classes will range across different artistic practices and mediums and are open to experienced practitioners to join in for free.
These sessions will be hosted by Steph McMann. Steph McMann is a London based dancer, movement coach and choreographer, whose work fuses emotional and embodied depth with physical precision. A notable performer with a rich background in the contemporary arts and a successful performance career of over 15 years, she is known for creating evocative, behaviourally grounded movement. Steph’s work is shaped by a career spanning internationally recognised film, tv, music and globally staged theatre. Steph values collaboration across disciplines, identities and environments.
These workshops will guide participants through a structured improvisational class grounded in somatic principles. We will explore noticing as a practice, deepening our listening and cultivating available, responsive states. Through a process of layering and weaving movement scores, images, and questions, we’ll play with giving and receiving simultaneously, disrupting self-judgment and emboldening play. We will aim to build confidence through connection with our dancing selves, moving directly with the tensions and relationships between our senses, environments, and pleasures.
Some tasks may involve touch or group work, but all activities can be adapted to meet individual needs.
These classes are open to those wanting to enquire into knowns and unknowns of the stuff of our bodies and beings in movement and dancing practices. Come as you are and use what is useful to you at your own pace.
Tickets are available via this link.
- Tuesday 8th July - SWEast Studios (10-11:30am)
- Wednesday 9th July - SWEast Studios (10-11:30am)
- Friday 12th September - SWEast Studios (10-11:30am)
- Friday 26th September - SWEast Studios (10-11:30am)
Disclaimer from Lorea: I am aware Sadlers Wells is in partnership with Barclays, a bank that is actively arming, supporting and profiting from Israel's apartheid regime against Palestinians. The Rose Choreographic School is hosted by Sadler’s Wells but is not funded by Barclays. Though we cannot disentangle ourselves completely from this complicity, I am actively engaged in the campaign against Barclays and the genocide and am involved conversations asking the institution to drop its ties.
You can read a statement written by the cohort of Rose Choreographic School here.