SUMMER
WORKSHOPS
TEACHERS 2024
Photo credit Roswitha Chesher
Thursday 15th August 2024
ROSEMARY LEE
Known for working in different contexts and media, Rosemary is a UK choreographer and film maker who has created a range of work including solos, large-scale, participatory, site-specific works, video installations and short films. Her work is characterised by an interest in creating a moving portraiture of the performing communities she gathers and exploring and highlighting our relationship with our environment.
Her more recent live works include Threaded Fine (2020) – a five-hour work for 24 soloists ranging from 9-75+ yrs old, and Passage for Par (2018) - commissioned by CAST as part of the Groundwork season of international art across Cornwall involving 30 women moving slowly across Par Sands.
Her most current film projects include award winning Sentence (2023), a short dance film made with Hugo Glendinning exploring stop frame animation and slow shutter speeds, and Orchard Portraits, a seven-screen video installation created with Roswitha Chesher shot in a wild orchard and consists of six video portraits each with an ancient fruit tree and a solo senior performer, and one landscape screen featuring 60 school children.
Her teaching ranges from masterclasses, movement laboratories, lectures and presentations and she is known for her friendly welcoming approach to participants of all ages and experiences.
Rosemary will lead an informal workshop focusing on coming home into our bodies, raising our sensory awareness of ourselves moving and expanding our range of movement qualities. If possible, Rosemary might lead some tasks outside looking at our connection to the natural world and taking inspiration from it. She is responsive to the participants and their interests and needs.
Friday 16th August 2024
ERICA STANTON
Erica is a dance teacher, choreographer and teaching mentor working in a wide range of settings. She was co-founder with Marion Gough of the collaborative company Mothers of Invention and following Marion’s legacy, has supported the professional development of dance teachers for over three decades. She has worked with and for Dance programmes and institutions throughout the UK as a lecturer, link tutor, external examiner and consultant.
Erica specialises in Limón technique and has led workshops focusing on its principles in the UK, in the USA and in New Zealand. Her recent pursuits include writing on the shifting role of the dance teacher and participation in BOTH Dance’s ‘Teachers’ Rehab.’ project for experienced practitioners who are interested in Limón and its contemporary relevance. Since 2017, she has collaborated with Sonia Rafferty and David Waring organising studio retreats for teachers and students to address current issues for teaching and learning in Dance under the auspices of Simply for the Doing.
Erica delights in meeting people through and with movement in new situations, this enthusiasm takes her beyond the dance studio to walking groups, and to coaching young netball players.
In her dance workshops Erica emphasises how it feels to be dancing - embracing the work (sweating!) and the interests and curiosity of participants to arrive at the collective joy of moving together.
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Saturday 17th August 2024
MONIQUE JONAS
Monique began dancing with the Chance to Dance programme before training at the Arts Educational Schools London. She completed her training at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, and received her Masters Degree from The London Contemporary Dance School, passing with distinction in 2017.
Monique is currently playing the role of Juliet in Mathew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet, which is touring internationally in 2024. She joined New Adventures in 2019 and has performed across multiple productions in that time. She, however, started her career with Richard Alston Dance Company as an apprentice in 2016 and toured extensively, both nationally and internationally with RADC, until their final performance in 2020.
Additionally, Monique founded her own dance company, Jona Dance in 2019. She has been choreographing, movement directing, teaching and producing work both online and in person, with the aim of amplifying silenced voices through contemporary dance in the UK. Jona Dance have created for Ballet Black, Rambert School, Pegasus Opera, Reebok and London Fashion Week to name a few. She recently premiered her work FLOCK on ENBS at the Peacock Theatre in 2023, a full length work called Siren Calls with Serendipity Institute UK in Leicester in 2022, and a new creation, Infinite for National Youth Ballet at Sadler’s Wells in 2022.
Monique is also a guest contemporary tutor at The Royal Ballet School, The Dang and formerly at English National Ballet School. She is a Ballet Futures Lecturer with English National Ballet. She teaches as a guest for London Contemporary Dance School, National Youth Ballet, Dilek Taptik School of Dance, Artistry Youth Dance, New Adventures and Laban CAT to name a few.
Over the years, Monique has worked with Rambert Dance Company, Ben Duke, Agudo Dance, Vidya Patel Clod Ensemble and commercially on the Brit Awards (2021) BBC Drama; The Pursuit of Love (2021), The Marvels (Disney 2023), The REGIME (HBO, 2024) Jamie Cullum and Kae Tempest, and Kylie Minogue.
The JONA DANCE technique is led by Monique Jonas. Our movement sessions are influenced by Cunningham Technique, whilst layering influences from the West African and Caribbean movement vocabulary. Our sessions encourage you to connect to groove and flow and remind us to reconnect to our natural rhythms through movement.
Sunday 18th August 2024
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