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WTF Thursdays: Drawing From Life – An Art and Performance Workshop

An evening of dance-theatre and life-drawing with a live sound score and a dash of Halloween.

This evening will be a dance-theater & life drawing workshop with a live sound score that will lead to an open jam at the end where participants are invited to interchangeably take part in drawing, witnessing, and/or exploring informal performance.

As it falls on Halloween, we will get some inspiration from the spooky holiday we know today and from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. (yes, wear a costume if your guts say YES!)

morgaine & Edward will facilitate the movement and theatre bits. Dilip will facilitate the life drawing bits. Participants are welcome to interchange between the two as they desire.

All facilitation will focus broadly on the inner and outer self, improvisation, intuition, perspective, character, environment, and connection.

Event details

31 October 2024

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Free, booking required

Please note, we are on the second floor, accessed by a staircase only. Regrettably the studios are not wheelchair accessible.

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About the Host

morgaine ann de leonardis (she/they) is a dyslexic irish-italian American artist working as a choreographer, movement director, facilitator, access practitioner, and performer. morgaine was born on lenapehoking, turtle island (colonially known as jersey city, nj usa). morgaine creates stage performance, site-specific, immersive, and film work.

morgaine has been commissioned to make site-specific works for historic hotel lobbies and parks across Manhattan, New Jersey, and London. She premiered three evening length works: No Place Like Home, a dinner and dance-theater show for an audience of 23, let live: a dance opera on life and death, and Opening Reception, a gallery-specific piece.

morgaine currently performs with The Missing Theater Company in Instructions on How To Be Alone(UK) and is slowly and softly working on UK based creations.

As a performer she’s worked with KDV Dance Ensemble (Berlin), Third Rail Projects award winning immersive show, Then She Fell, and FX and Hulu’s immersive American Horror Story NYC shop (NYC/Lenape). morgaine co-facilitates Kinetic Light’s LAB, a virtual social and creative space for disabled artists.

Instagram: @morgishborgg @edwardjcdavies @dilipsuracademy

Accessibility

Audio description and BSL are both available upon request to morgaine at mdeleonardis1237@gmail.com.

In this space you can tend to your needs, lounge, and witness or not witness at any time.

Chairs and pillows will be throughout the space and a quiet space will be available.

Please note, we are on the second floor of a warehouse building, accessed by a staircase only. We regret that we cannot currently adequately support wheelchair users and those for whom stairs are a barrier.

We are committed to removing other barriers to access. If you would like to talk to us about your access needs, please contact: frances@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk. Read more about our commitments to anti-ableism as part of our Artist Community Culture Document

About WTF Thursdays

WTF Thursdays is a space creating possibilities for community-building amongst artists. Each evening, CDS hands over the keys to the building for an artist to host an event in the spirit of low-stakes, DIY action. If you would like to host an evening, click here for more info.

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