Workshop: Pulse (Movement)

Instructor: Ruth Douthwright

In these workshops we will practice a wide range of rhythms, steps, gestures, movement qualities, sounds and spatial formations inspired by dances and music from here and there. Dance offers numerous ways of knowing and becoming as our senses, time and space interact and entangle. The process of learning and practicing dances and songs from other times and places provides a multitude of new experiences; one can engage on many levels, discovering unique relations with time, space, self and other. This is a public workshop that is available through LDN Convergence, a two-week long multidisciplinary artist residency here at TAP.

Bio: For over a decade Ruth has been a certified teacher of the Axis Syllabus offering individual and group movement therapy, dance classes and workshops, and as a guest teacher for International Teacher Trainings. Formative education in folk, sacred dance, storytelling and music has greatly influenced her work. Graduate from LADMMI - École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, continued studies: Continuum, Laban (UK), The Body Weather Farm and The Kyoto Arts Centre (Japan). Artistic highlights: PATRIA R. Murray Schafer, ABCDC Frey Faust 2003-2008, L’Inattendue Compagnie, (Belgium) 2006-2008, Dasein Dance Theatre (Canada) 2014-2016. Ongoing research and performance projects Ecological Bodying with Strange Strangers Collective. Ruth lives in London where she currently provides programs as an Educator and Mentor with London Arts Council, Museum London and creates with PublicDisplaysArt.