FIRKIN CRANE PRESENTS

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Sunday 20th May 12pm – 4pm

Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)
No booking fee

Price: €10

Wendy’s workshop is about language and movement. Combining a mixture of doing and talking, physical and verbal tasks will be introduced and explored with the group.

Wendy Houstoun is a London based director, choreographer and performance maker who was worked  with experimental movement and theatre forms since 1980. Her solo works Haunted Daunted and Flaunted, Happy Hour , The 48 Almost Love Lyrics  and Desert Island Dances and  50 ACTS   have all toured in Europe, Australia and the US. Long term collaboraters are composer John Avery, lighting designer Nigel Edwards who also act as directorial voices. Collaborative work with companies and individual artists include: Lloyd Newson and DV8 Physical Theatre, Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment , Charlotte Vincent and Vincent Dance Company, film-maker David Hinton, dancer Jonathan Burrows, composer Matteo Fargion, performer Nigel Charnock, dancer Rachel Krische, artist Terry O’Connor, performance artist Rose English, Gloria Theatre, Lumiere & Son Theatre, Ludus Dance Comapany in theatre and site specific pieces , films and installations. She has taught open workshops internationally and in the UK and continues to develop a mentoring role with independent artists. 

She has received a Time Out Award for her performance in ” If Only..” with DV8 Physical theatre, a Paul Hamlyn Award for Performance, a Golden Sun Award for her film Touched made with David Hinton, a TMA award for her piece 50 ACTS and was nominated for a Critics Circle Award for the same piece. She recently received a Critics Award for Pact with Pointlessness. Wendy has made pieces for Candoco Dance Company (Imperfect Storm), Yorke Dance Project ( Home on The Range ), VCAM in Melbourne   ( Macbeth ) Antonia Grove and Probe ( Small Talk ) as well as directing two projects in Sydney: In the Dark – with Independent dancers at The Performance Space and No Success Like Failure for The Fondue Set. She is currently building an ambitious new text work for 2018.

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Wednesday 19th September 10am – 12pm

Price: €7

Theo’s masterclass begins with simple sensory exercises that encourage awareness and connection within the body alongside perception games that explore participants relationship to themselves, to each other and to the spaces they inhabit. Following this, his class becomes a balance of improvisation and learnt movement patterns devised to develop dancers coordination and help them find greater clarity in articulation. He finishes up with phrase work and/or group dances that encourage playful, present and expansive dancing.

Following 20 performing in work by many of the UK’s most celebrated dance makers, choreographer, performer and stage designer, Theo Clinkard has swiftly built an international reputation for creating compelling and visually arresting dance works. In 2012, he launched his own company to develop a portfolio of work that explores the communicative potential of the body and the empathetic nature of dance in performance. He has toured his work extensively across the UK and internationally (Chile, Switzerland, Germany), receiving invites to present at British Dance Edition (Edinburgh and Cardiff) and at Internationale Tanzmesse NRW 2016 in Dusseldorf. Past company works include Hell Bent (2012), Ordinary Courage (2012), Of Land & Tongue (2014) and Chalk (2014). This Bright Field (2017), Theo’s latest company work for 12 international performers, premiered at Brighton Festival in May this year and is now touring. He has also undertaken a range of high profile international commissions including Somewhat still when seen from above (2015) for Tanztheatre Wuppertal Pina Bausch and The Listening Room (2016) for Danza Contemporanea de Cuba. As well as leading intensive workshops and masterclasses internationally, Theo regularly teaches class to Carte Blanche, Culberg Ballet, Skänes Dansteater, Danish Dance Theatre, Pina Bausch, D.V.8., Sydney Dance Co., Michael Clark Co, Scottish Dance Theatre, New Adventures, Candoco, National Dance Co. Wales, Ballet Boyz and Rambert. Clinkard is an Associate Artist at Brighton Dome, Dance4 and Greenwich Dance. www.theoclinkard.com