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Sheffield Dance Collective

Posted: 08 February 2010

Sheffield Dance Collective

Saturday 13 February 2010
9.20am - 1.20pm
University of Sheffield Drama Studio Rehearsal Room 1
(Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2TD)
Cost £20 (to cover teacher and venue fee)

Contemporary technique class followed by a creative workshop, including repertory and improvisation.

Led by Mona McCarthy.

Mona McCarthy will lead a release based technique class, focusing on the journey between tension and release to find momentum, fluidity and ease in movement.  This will be followed by a creative session where structured improvisation is used to explore, challenge and expand on ones own movement vocabulary, this will be tailored to the needs of the group.   

Mona McCarthy is a dance artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne.  She has been working professionally as a teacher and performer since 2001.  During that time she has worked with choreographers and theatre practitioners such as Adam Benjamin (UK), Molly Sturges – Little Globe (New Mexico), Liv Lorent – Ballet Lorent (UK), Noa Wertheim – Vertigo Dance Company (Israel).  Her practice has expanded into the world of aerial performance, working specifically with corde lisse (rope).  She is co-organiser of Phoenix Aerial club and co-director of theybreakinpieces and The FATHoM Project (CIC).

For further information and/ or to book a place…
contact Laura Aldridge at info@anotherdancecompany.com or telephone: 07793917426.