The Work Room

Connections in South Asian Dance

Friday 15 November | 1pm to 3pm | Civic House

Theiya Arts and The Work Room invite artists and practitioners working in and with South Asian dance and performance to an afternoon of sharing and connecting. This will be a relaxed space to make connections, share about your own creative practice and learn more about the work of Theiya Arts Dance Collective and The Work Room.

The Work Room is able to offer bursaries of £50 to freelancers to attend. We are also able to support travel expenses from anyone attending from out with Glasgow & can contribute to personal requirements, including support towards child care.

This event is scheduled alongside Theiya Arts performance of Maiden | Mother | W***e at Civic House, 5.30 - 7pm, which you are invited to attend.

To register email [email protected] noting any travel or access support you are requesting to enable you to attend. Please also note if you are attending as a freelancer and therefor eligible for the £50 bursary.

See more about the performance through the link below.

🎟You can purchase a ticket for the performance only here >>>>https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maiden-mother-whore-performance-and-exhibition-tickets-1022994442917

Connections in South Asian Dance — The Work Room Friday 15 November | 1pm to 3pm | Civic House Theiya Arts and The Work Room invite artists and practitioners working in and with South Asian dance an...

🤸🏻 OPEN TO APPLICATIONS 🤸🏻 BEYOND WINTER AWARD 🗓️ APPLY BY 28 NOV 🗓️

There are still FOUR WEEKS left to apply to our BEYOND Fund for the ❄️ 2024 Winter Award ❄️ - a seed funding award of £1500 to nurture the early stages of a project or idea which seeks to engage more people in dance, movement or choreographic practice 🌱

Expressions of Interest should be for two or more members working together 👯 application is via a short EOI and the award is made via peer review and random selection.

❔Have an idea and wondering if BEYOND is right for you? All the Guidance Info is on our website, PLUS you can also take our quick eligibility quiz to help you decide if your project is eligible for BEYOND funding! https://theworkroom.org.uk/opportunities/beyond-2024

❄️ SUBMIT ON OR BEFORE 28 NOVEMBER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE 2024 WINTER AWARD ❄️

📷Image: Summer 2024 Awardees Aby Watson & Anne Kjaer 'An Introduction to Stimprovisation'. Photo by Anne Kjaer

✨✨WORKSHOP with GODDESS DIVINE ✨✨

Sunday 10 Nov | 1pm to 3pm | The Work Room

GODDESS DIVINE

International artist, works in Movement, sound/ music and fashion. Born in Congo raised in Scotland.

Divine has been researching African dance and its different elements from dance, music to fashion. Exploring what the culture truly is from its core foundation. Divine’s working with Edinburgh Culture festival and Three60 on designing a programme for African dance to be apart of institutions within the western culture.

In this workshop divine looks to hold, will explore into African dance within experimental movements and challenge the session with exploration of character building and performances. Exploring the ideas of movement acting and drama through story telling.

Email [email protected] to attend.

WORKSHOP with GODDESS DIVINE — The Work Room Sunday 10 Nov | 1pm to 3pm | The Work Room GODDESS DIVINE International artist, works in Movement, sound/ music and fashion. Born in Congo raised in...

🌳🌿✨ 🎧 🎙️ Groundwork Podcast Series 🎙️ 🎧 ✨🌳🌿

Episode 3: Melissa Heywood

Melissa shares her thoughts on what it is to be a beginner when it comes to climate justice, about getting outdoors, getting connected, and the knowledge amongst us to make work in sustainable ways-how we don't need to be the first or duplicate what others are doing, but can provide one another with the support, hope, and awe we urgently need.

Drafted following a series of conversations and research activities undertaken by the Groundwork working group, they are intended as offers for The Work Room artist-members and the organisation to consider as part of approaches to greener working practices, environmental ethos/policies and sustainability in light of the climate emergency.

More about Melissa Heywood (she/her):

Melissa is a contemporary dance artist from Scotland and a founding member of The Grounding Project; a multinational dance collective working within the environmental arts sector, to share the stories of our planet and its people. The collective aims to encourage wellbeing through dancing and reconnecting with nature whilst galvanising support for climate activism through their art.

Recognising a lot of inaccessibility in the language we use when talking about sustainable practices, climate change and other environmental topics, Melissa is motivated to contribute to the creation of accessible resources that address the implementation of sustainable and environmentally conscious practices in the dance industry. She will share the movement practices that she has developed through her research which focus on understanding ecology through an embodied practice that draws on our innate human responses to nature.

🎧Listen to Episode 3 on Spotify >>>https://tinyurl.com/56ecwebm

📱or search for GROUNDWORK/ The Work Room (Dance) where you normally listen to your podcasts

💻Read more about GROUNDWORK and listen to all the Episodes on our website >>> https://theworkroom.org.uk/news/groundwork-podcast-series-09092024

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room

EHY- EHYY! 💃🏽🎶

A big thank you to everyone who came along to our Dance, People & Placemaking event at Civic House the other week, celebrating some of our fantastic BEYOND Projects and engaging in discussion about the role of dance in community and placemaking.

🚞🫂We hosted a hybrid digital and in person sharing from Penny Chivas & Stefanie Hellewell Baird, reflecting on their project on Orkney and the importance of building trust and relationships with community over time

💃🏽🍉Got sweaty whooping, stamping and clapping along as Nancy Ahmar facilitated some of us in learning the Dabke, a dance of joy and resistance from Palestine & Lebanon.

🎸🚸 We heard from Aya Kobayashi & Jer Reid, who shared reflections on Collective Endeavours intergenerational project 'A Wee Open Floor Day' and the different approaches to community, horizontal hierarchy and decision making modeled within dance and music improvisation

🏡🌳And Kirstin Halliday shared insights and film footage from their project in the Langside Estate with Anya Sirina & Rosie Roberts, and their approach to working hyper locally with neighbors and the way this shifts relationship to people and place.

Big thanks to:
Glasgow Connected Arts Network for co-presenting with us and welcoming GCAN members into the day!
Civic House for the lovely space to gather
Parveens for a delicious team lunch after a busy morning of hosting.

Everyone who entered our raffle! We raised £57 for the Al Harrah Theatre. (And congratulations to Our Raffle Winners Natasha Gilmore and Kirstin Halliday!)

✨ In the studio: Laura González ✨

In this 1 week studio residency, Laura is developing a tabletop hand dance for a new intimate performance called Corazonada (hunch, or heart wisdom in Spanish). The work is about intuition and other manifestations of what she calls ‘illegitimate forms of knowledge’. These are ways of knowing that often bypass the rational, the cerebral and the productive and involve entering into an object rather than moving around it. Other core features of the heart way of knowing are softness, quiet, deep listening, connection and attention to the subtle.

Laura will share some of what she has been developing each day online - follow https://www.instagram.com/soma.psychic/


Laura Gonzalez

Laura González — The Work Room In this residency, I will be developing a tabletop hand dance for a new intimate performance called Corazonada (hunch, or heart wisdom in Spanish). Th...

💃Professional Contemporary Class Autumn 2024💃

Thursday 31 Oct, 7 Nov & 14 Nov | 9.30am to 10.45am | Govanhill Queens Park Church
Friday 1 Nov, 8 Nov & 15 Nov | 9.30am to 10.45am | Kinning Park Complex

The Work Room & Barrowland Ballet co-run weekly classes for the professional dance community in Glasgow on Thursday & Friday mornings. Pro Class provides a space for independent dance artists to come together to dance and sustain practice.

Over the next 3 weeks lead artist Aya Kobayashi returns to teach class after a short break. Our aim is for these classes to be accessible to a wide range of physicalities. A different approach is taken to Aya's classes on Thursdays & Fridays - see link for details of this.

The classes operate on a Pay-What-You-Can sliding scale of £0 > £3 > £5> £7 tickets and should be booked in advance via TicketLab. While we remain keen for these classes to be an accessible resource supporting the professional dance community in Glasgow, the long-term sustainability of these is not possible without generating income to towards the cost of running these. Please do book in advance and we encourage you to consider what you are able to contribute financially to make these classes possible.

📸 Brian Hartley

Professional Contemporary Class Autumn 2024 — The Work Room The Work Room & Barrowland Ballet co-run weekly classes for the professional dance community in Glasgow on Thursday & Friday mornings. BOOK H...

🔊🔊TWR ARTIST RESIDENCY - CLOSING SOON🔊🔊

📆Deadline: Monday 28 October at midnight.

At the heart of The Work Room (TWR) is our programme of supported, choreographic residencies. These are for members to explore ideas and projects through experimentation and creative processes, from research through to production, according to the needs and requirements of each artist.

Over the last few years we have been adjusting our programme and artist support offer. Knowing that flexibility is key for members in the challenging circumstances of today, we are continuing to offer simpler and more responsive approaches to residencies. In this call out, we continue to welcome proposals that might be undertaken ‘at home’ or in spaces closer to where you live, residency time that is flexible around caring responsibilities and other commitments, as well as supporting research in an outdoor environment.

Our residencies are open to members of The Work Room, for more about becoming a member see our website 💻 >>>https://theworkroom.org.uk/join/

💻Read more and download call out>>>https://theworkroom.org.uk/opportunities/artist-residency-call-out-the-work-room-artist-residency-call-out-residencies-january-june-2025

📸 Penny Chivas & Jack Webb, photo by Tommy Ga Ken Wan

The Work Room Newsletter October 2024✨

Read all about it! Our September Newsletter went out today with a round-up of activity in The Work Room studio and programme, as well as news, opportunities and events from the wider dance sector in Scotland.

💻You can view the newsletter by visiting our website >> Resources >> The Work Room Newsletter September 2024

💌Sign Up on our website 💌 to receive TWR monthly newsletter direct to your inbox.

Image: Kieran Brown, photo by Genevieve Reeves

🌳🌿✨ 🎧 🎙️ Groundwork Podcast Series 🎙️ 🎧 ✨🌳🌿

GROUNDWORK Episode 2: Amy Dakin Harris

Amy centres her research ideas and practices around mutual aid, rest, interception, and conversation with land. Amy discusses her intension to share tools for situating our collective experience of ecological destruction in our growth oriented society and hopes to propose rituals for moving through difficult emotions arise from this together.

Drafted following a series of conversations and research activities undertaken by the Groundwork working group, these Podcasts are intended as offers for The Work Room artist-members and the organisation to consider as part of approaches to greener working practices, environmental ethos/policies and sustainability in light of the climate emergency.

More about Amy Dakin Harris (she/her):

Amy is an interdisciplinary artist and land worker, who facilitates multiple community growing projects around Glasgow. Her movement practice currently investigates how embodiment can help create a more expansive and integrated view of regenerative [growing/life-sustaining] principles. Central to this research are ideas and practices around mutual aid, rest, interoception and conversation with land.

Drawing on a recent course in degrowth economics with The Centre for Human Ecology, and research into embodied grief practices, Amy will share tools for situating our collective experience of ecological destruction in our growth-oriented society and propose rituals for moving through difficult emotions that arise from this, together.

🎧Listen to Episode 2 on Spotify >>>https://tinyurl.com/2dc2x3sd

📱 or search for GROUNDWORK/ The Work Room (Dance) where you normally listen to your podcasts

💻Read more about GROUNDWORK and listen to all the Episodes on our website >>> https://theworkroom.org.uk/news/groundwork-podcast-series-09092024/

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room

Pro Class in Glasgow with Guest Artist Monika Smekot

📆Friday 25 October | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Kinning Park Complex
📆Friday 29 November | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Kinning Park Complex

The class will offer a unique journey of self-expression, discovery and play. We will begin by gently waking up the body and imagination. We will tune into the body's innate wisdom and connect with the space and others through creative experiments and movement sequences.

The aim of the class is to encourage you to be curious about old and new ways of moving, find new patterns of articulation and also meet and explore your edges with care. We will work individually, in pairs and finish the class with group improvisation.

Pro class in Glasgow is supported in partnership with Barrowland Ballet

🎟Booking via TicketLab, see link for details and more classes!

💻https://theworkroom.org.uk/events/pro-class-with-monika-smekot/

📸 Monika Smekot

Pro class with Monika Smekot — The Work Room Pro Class with guest artist Monika Smekot Friday 18 October | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Kinning Park Complex Friday 25 October | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Kinning P...

Pro Class in Glasgow with Guest Artist Kieran Brown

📆Thursday 24 October | 9.30am to 10.45am | The Work Room

Class will start by awakening the body through observation. Bringing our attention to movement, noticing how the body responds. Building our awareness through the experience of the body in motion and investigating new pathways through touch. Finishing with set material focusing on the weight and coordination of the head, pelvis and limbs.

Pro class in Glasgow is supported in partnership with Barrowland Ballet

🎟Booking via TicketLab, see link for details and more classes!
📸 Genevieve Reeves

Pro Class with Kieran Brown — The Work Room Pro class with guest artist Kieran Brown Thursday 24 October | 9.30am to 10.45am | The Work Room  Class will start by awakening the body throug...

Morning practice with Kieran Brown

📆Monday 21, Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23 October - 10am to 11.15am

The Work Room Studio - enter via Stage Door

These sessions, led by artist in residence Kieran Brown, will explore Inner listening and peer support. Meeting our selves through the meeting of another. Moving, speaking and listening from the body. The experience of being with, being in relationship. And connecting through touch based moving practices. Finding, noticing, sensing, ourselves, our bodies in relation.

🎟Free but let us know you plan to attend by emailing [email protected]

📸 Eoin Carey

Morning practice with Kieran Brown — The Work Room Monday 14,  Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16 October - 10am to 11.15am Monday 21,  Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23 October - 10am to 11.15am The Work Roo...

Taking the Temperature - workshop & sharing with Aniela Piasecka
Monday 4 November | 12.30 - 4.30pm | The Work Room

Aniela will be leading this event based on research into their solo work development based on a practice Aniela is calling 'taking the temperature'. As part of the afternoon event Aniela will first lead a workshop that endeavours to create space for exchange and sharing through movement, offering a space where diverging needs, desires, and sensibilities might coalesce to create different ways to experience the body in space. The class will be structured around guided vocal invitations based on a range of somatic movement techniques chosen to support experiences of chronic pain and to enable participants to gain greater consciousness of their own internal worlds.

After the workshop Aniela will then share the work-in-progress performance with a chance to chat afterwards.

Email [email protected] to attend and indicate if you will be joining for the workshop, the sharing or both.

💻See link for full schedule

📸 Daniel Cook

Taking the Temperature - workshop & sharing with Aniela Piasecka — The Work Room Monday 4 November | 12.20pm - 4.30pm (schedule below) | The Work Room  Aniela will be leading a crip connections event based on research into th...

🌳🌿✨ 🎧 🎙️ Launching the GROUNDWORK Podcast Series 🎙️ 🎧 ✨🌳🌿

Drafted following a series of conversations and research activities undertaken by the Groundwork working group, they are intended as offers for The Work Room artist-members and the organisation to consider as part of approaches to greener working practices, environmental ethos/policies and sustainability in light of the climate emergency.

At the heart of every conversation the group has had an intention to work towards more embodied approaches to responding to climate and biodiversity injustice in our work and our daily lives. As part of this, the participating artists –Amy Dakin Harris, Emily Nicholl, Hamshya Rajkumar, Hannah Draper, Melissa Heywood and Penny Chivas –have all shared insights into their differing practices and perspectives, in conversation with Luke Pell, as part of a pilot series of podcasts from The Work Room.

Each episode offers a series of approachable, impassioned reflections and recommendations for dancing peers in Scotland-and beyond-whether they are already involved in these kinds of conversation, are just joining or are keen to learn more.

🌱Episode 1: Introduction with Luke Pell 🌱

This new pilot series of podcasts from The Work Room. Luke Pell introduces Groundwork working group where they met to consider approaches to greener working practices, environmental ethos, policies, and sustainability. At the heart of every conversation the group has had was an intention to work towards more embodied approaches to responding to climate and biodiversity injustice, in our work and our daily lives.

🎧Listen to Episode 1 on Spotify >>> https://tinyurl.com/hj7j23j7

📱or search for GROUNDWORK where you normally listen to your podcasts

💻Read more and listen to the full series on our website via SoundCloud >>>https://theworkroom.org.uk/news/groundwork-podcast-series-09092024/

GROUNDWORK is supported by the Glasgow Life Arts Development Fund

🔊🔊2 WEEKS TO APPLY FOR TWR ARTIST RESIDENCY🔊🔊

📆Deadline: Monday 28 October at midnight.

At the heart of The Work Room (TWR) is our programme of supported, choreographic residencies. These are for members to explore ideas and projects through experimentation and creative processes, from research through to production, according to the needs and requirements of each artist.

Over the last few years we have been adjusting our programme and artist support offer. Knowing that flexibility is key for members in the challenging circumstances of today, we are continuing to offer simpler and more responsive approaches to residencies. In this call out, we continue to welcome proposals that might be undertaken ‘at home’ or in spaces closer to where you live, residency time that is flexible around caring responsibilities and other commitments, as well as supporting research in an outdoor environment.

Our residencies are open to members of The Work Room, for more about becoming a member see our website 💻 >>>link in bio

📸 Penny Chivas & Jack Webb, photo by Tommy Ga Ken Wan

Pro Class in Glasgow with Guest Artist Monika Smekot

📆Friday 18 October | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Govanhill Queen's Park Church
📆Friday 25 October | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Kinning Park Complex
📆Friday 29 November | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Kinning Park Complex

The class will offer a unique journey of self-expression, discovery and play. We will begin by gently waking up the body and imagination. We will tune into the body's innate wisdom and connect with the space and others through creative experiments and movement sequences.

The aim of the class is to encourage you to be curious about old and new ways of moving, find new patterns of articulation and also meet and explore your edges with care. We will work individually, in pairs and finish the class with group improvisation.

Pro class in Glasgow is supported in partnership with Barrowland Ballet

🎟Booking via TicketLab, see link for details and more classes!

💻https://theworkroom.org.uk/events/pro-class-with-monika-smekot/

📸 Monika Smekot

Pro class with Monika Smekot — The Work Room Pro Class with guest artist Monika Smekot Friday 18 October | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Kinning Park Complex Friday 25 October | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Kinning P...

Pro Class in Glasgow with Guest Artist Vince Virr

📆Thursday 17 October | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Govanhill Queen's Park Church

The class will start by bringing our attention to our bodies in the present, gently exploring articulation of the body to warm up and prepare for fluid sequences to strengthen ourselves and build stamina with final travelling sequences.

Pro class in Glasgow is supported in partnership with Barrowland Ballet

🎟Booking via TicketLab, see link for details and more classes!

💻

Pro Class with Vince Virr — The Work Room Pro Class with Guest Artist Vince Virr | Thursday 17 October | 9.30am to 10.45am  Govanhill Parish Church The class will start by bringing our a...

Member-Led Event from Monica De Ioanni✨

Performance Practice and the Land: Site-Specific Performance / Embodiment Practice

📆Sunday 27 October 2024 | 12 – 4.30 pm | The Work Room

Drawing on her experience in inclusive, participatory dance, together with her background in environmental science, Monica invite's members of The Work Room to reflect together on ongoing movement research that intertwines site-specific performance with embodiment practices.

This event will offer a day of sharing and experimentation—an interdisciplinary space focused on the intersection of site-specific performance and embodiment practice. It also aims to contribute to the development of methodologies for creating immersive performance experiences.

💻See more on the What's On page of our website>>> link in bio

📸 Gea Cimenti

Morning practice with Kieran Brown

📆Monday 14, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16 October - 10am to 11.15am

📆Monday 21, Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23 October - 10am to 11.15am

The Work Room Studio - enter via Stage Door

These sessions, led by artist in residence Kieran Brown, will explore Inner listening and peer support. Meeting our selves through the meeting of another. Moving, speaking and listening from the body. The experience of being with, being in relationship. And connecting through touch based moving practices. Finding, noticing, sensing, ourselves, our bodies in relation.

🎟Free but let us know you plan to attend by emailing [email protected]

📸 Eoin Carey

Morning practice with Kieran Brown — The Work Room Monday 14,  Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16 October - 10am to 11.15am Monday 21,  Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23 October - 10am to 11.15am The Work Roo...

PRO CLASS with Guest Artist Rosalind Masson 💥

📆 Friday 11 October | 9.30am to 10.45am | Kinning Park Complex

In this class we will tune into our movement capabilities by sensing our whole body and how it’s connected to the floor and to gravity.

We will explore the movement of different parts of the body: arms, legs, head, chest and pelvis, to increase awareness and possibility for movement expression. This freedom of movement will then be explored in the context of movement phrases signature to Rosalind’s choreographic language which she has been developing since 2010.

Material can be adapted to whatever level and improvisation forms a big part of the approach to movement informed by Rosalind’s time at Movement Research in New York and her work with Laborgras in Berlin.

Part of Professional Contemporary Class Autumn 2024 programme >>>booking through ticket lab >>> link in our bio

📷Photo from Gleb Kalin, ‘Morph’ Performance Project, Tanzfabrik, Berlin

In residency Emma Hamilton✨

Emma Ready is developing a satirical Hip Hop dance project centred around the concept of fake apologies. “Fauxpologies” seeks to dissect the phenomenon of faux apologies prevalent in contemporary society and aims to provoke critical reflection on the societal implications of insincere apologies, particularly in the context of cancel culture. Emma will utilise her breakdance technique as well as research into forensic linguistics and body language to inform the choreography.

📷 Mitzi de Margary

Pro class with Shaper / Caper 💥

📆Thursday 10 October | 9:30 - 10:45 am | Govanhill Queen's Park Church

While /Caper are in town touring Small Town Boys in Glasgow, dance artists Glasgow Alex Gosmore and Ben Knapper will lead this one off class featuring choreo from the work.

Class can span a mixture of mobilisation, conditioning, floorwork, improvisation, grooves and dynamic phrasing. Moving the body as a whole and dancing from the gut. We will be sure to sweat to some good music! one of their dancers will lead this one off class featuring choreo from the work.

Small Town Boys is showing in Glasgow 13 – 14 October when a cast of eight dancers take over the floor of the Polo Louge, with a soundtrack of everyone’s favourite 80s & early 90s anthems, as well as original music. The dancers are joined by our Community Cast, a group of volunteer dancers bridging the gap between performers and spectators, bringing the joy and chaos of the nightlife scene to life.

Shaper/Caper is a diversity-led dance company and registered charity. They bring the work of multi-award-winning choreographer Thomas Small to new and diverse audiences, through our inclusive approach to dance-theatre.

🎟Booking via TicketLab, link in bio >>> Professional Contemporary Class Autumn 2024.

📷 Alex Gosmore, photo courtesy of Shaper/Caper

In Residence: Rosalind Masson & Jer Reid

"In our dynamics of healing residency we will explore the roll of movement, breath work and sound making in navigating the impact of personal turmoil under the ever-present forces of capitalism. We will look at how our creative practices can support and hold us and we will examine what the role of choreography and composition have in sustaining us through times of particular pressure, and more generally, in the political systems we live in."

This flexible residency will take place over a number of days in TWR studio, Kinning Park Complex and Scottish Ballet Engagement Studio (with in kind support from Scottish Ballet).

📸(left) Rosalind Masson, photo by Phil Dera, (right) Jer Reid photo by Colin Greig

Read more 💻>>>https://theworkroom.org.uk/residencies/rosalind-masson-jer-reid-102024-102024

TWR Artist Residencies - info Zoom for applicants ✨

📆 Wednesday 9 October | 10:00–11:30 | Online via Zoom

💻This information Zoom, co-hosted by Anita Clark (Director) and Sara Johnstone (General Manager), will give an overview of our approach to residencies and take general questions about the application process.

This Zoom is for members of The Work Room considering applying for an Artist Residency during the period January to June 2025. The call out is now live here with a closing date of Monday 28 October at midnight.

🔗Members can email [email protected] for the Zoom link

📷 Penny Chivas & Jack Webb, photo by Tommy Ga Ken Wan