Artistic Support

We have workshops from Chisenhale Members being held here at the space in the coming weeks, see below on how to book onto them! To check out members biogs please click here

Leila Mcmillan Workshop – Flying Low

This year Leila was one of 50 artists chosen to be a part of the 50 days of Flying Low and Passing Through training with David Zambrano in Costa Rica, which certified her in the techniques. In early July she will hold a half-day taster workshop. This workshop will be a taste of Leila’s development of the Flying Low technique, created by David Zambrano and it will be a taster for the full workshop one week intensive in Flying Low and Passing Through (Improvisation) on 16-20th August. This workshop focuses mainly on the dancer’s relationship with the floor using Zambrano’s concept of sending and gathering.

Wednesday 14th July
10-12pm
Level – Advanced/Professional
£5 taster
No Booking Required – First Come First Served
 

Flying Low Passing Through Workshop  16th - 20th August

Intensive week with Leila McMillan for advanced students and professional dancers on David Zambrano's techniques Flying Low & Passing Through. Leila was one of 50 International Dance Artists chosen to train with Zambrano in Flying Low & Passing Through for 50 days in Costa Rica 2010. She is now certified to teach her own development of the 2 techniques.

The workshop will be broken up in 2 parts: Flying Low dance technique in the morning, Passing Through Improvisation technique in the afternoon. There is a focus on speed, earth, energy and wildness through the work aiming to interconnect the 2 techniques with your own movement vocabulary and life experiences during a 1-2 hour improvisation on the final day.

Flying Low: focuses mainly on the dancers relationship with the floor/ground/earth. Using simple movement patterns that involve breathing, speed and the release of energy throughout the body in order to activate the relationship between the center and the joints, moving in and out of the ground more efficiently by maintaining a centered state.
Passing Through: an improvisation technique working with Zambrano’s philosophy that movement needs no leader in creation. Specifically working with adaptation, interconnecting with everyone and the room at all times, transforming the environment of the dance. We work to see the room full of pathways - infinite pathways passing through the walls, the floor and the bodies. These pathways go in any direction and are filled with curves both large and small with visible and invisible spirals constantly passing through. Thus the passing through is created into a wild spontaneous composition.

Leila has recently come back from assisting Zambrano in Senegal in Passing Through workshops at Ecole des Sables and organizing his tour of Soul Project in 10 villages in Senegal.

www.leilamcmillan.com

Time: 10-5pm
Price: £150/£120 - Concessions
Level: Advanced, Professional
Booking: 0208 981 6617

You must send CV to leila@leilamcmillan.com to apply for the workshop.
If you are accepted you will have to pay the full workshop fee to reserve your place.