Sunday Best is a safe and inclusive space to dance freestyle and move at your own pace. All welcome, there are no steps to be learnt. You just need a body and a willingness to move it.
What can you expect?
I will be offering a broad choice of music divided into three main sections: 1. Arriving: songs and soundscapes to help you to arrive and familiarise with the space and the fellow dancers, also your opportunity to warm up. 2. Staying: this is the main section where I will play a broad variety of songs that would allow you to set your inner dancer into motion and explore where your body wants to take you. 3. Leaving: this section would be calmer, allowing you to cool down and slowly returning to your centre and prepare you to end the session. You are your own guide. At the beginning I might say some words to help you to warm up and it is up to you to follow them or not.
Who am I?
I am a writer, performer and musician. I spent the first half of my life, reading books, writing books, publishing books, teaching books, until I realised that I was with the wrong tribe; my real tribe was the movement people tribe. Then I started to dance non-stop until today; and to go to workshops and have one to one sessions in a range of disciplines: somatic dance, butoh dance, total theatre, improvisation, Alexander Technique, voice improvisation, clown, dark clown, mime, etc. My aim has always been to increase the range of my body expressivity that I have used since then for: acting in theatre and video, live art, body movement, vocal improvisation, experimental music, performance poetry, and in the last 10 years playing with the band chopchop.
Is that it? Organized by dance lab: THE, fancy name… do you have a plan?
Glad you ask! Well! Maybe not that glad. Hum! You know when there is something simmering in your mind, but you don’t know what it is yet. Maybe giving it a name makes it more real, maybe you can help to discover what it is? Some things are bouncing inside my skull, to this date only under my beret, and now under yours too: 1. I am a music improviser, maybe in future I would add my own mixes and live music, by myself and/or other musicians? 2. Run workshops to spark creativity emerging from body movement, helping people that feel stagnated and need a bit of a shake to be energized. My interest is in finding new angles, sending you on tangents, unblocking obstacles, generating ideas, opening creative spaces, etc. I have been asked to do this in the past and this has been very successful. 3. Invite people from diverse dance disciplines to run a class: contact improvisation, somatic dance, etc. But for the time being, let’s just dance in Sunday Best.
Where, When, How much, etc?
Humble Hub, 4-5 Shepherd St, Saint Leonards-on-sea TN38 0ET
1st Sunday of the month, 10.30 to 12 am. Starting 5th April.
Price £ 15, £12, £10 (The first time you come: two for one)
book online
If you want to be kept in the loop and receive reminders/info, please, write to me to: xldetoro@icloud.com