Creative Re-Work provides a variety of opportunities, available to professional and aspiring performance artists to support their continuous personal development. A continuously developing suite of fully funded programmes has been designed to include;
- Professional Dance Technique Classes
- Choreographic Workshops
- Industry Focussed Workshops
- Mentoring
- Careers Guidance
- Dance and Performance Leadership Training
- Teaching Experience
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CREATIVE REWORK HISTORY
PRO DANCE CLASSES
Fully funded, regular professional classes are offered with time to warm up and cool down as well as network with other dance artists. For our inaugural cohort, we delivered our classes at Woolwich Works, and since then have been based between East London Dance in Stratford and Studio Wayne McGregor at Here East.
Classes are led/facilitated by Jenny Hayes and cover Cunningham technique and Ballet for contemporary dancers. We frequently have an exceptional array of Guest Artists leading classes, including Monique Jonas, Simone Sistarelli and Zee Zunnar.
Our classes are accompanied live by a range of musicians.
Professional morning class warm up before getting into technique exercises in contemporary.
WORKSHOPS
Supporting the free Professional Classes, we have delivered a selection of workshops, providing dancers with the skills to be self-sufficient artists. These are facilitated by Jenny Hayes and Eloïse Poulton and invited specialists, and have been delivered both internally at Creative Re-Work sessions and at external institutions. Creative Re-Work is proud to have collaborated with organisations whose work inspires us, creating mutually beneficial relationships in the process including Rambert School and Chickenshed Theatre Company.
Workshops have included:
Industry Focused Workshops
- Portfolio CVs and Showreels
- The Power of Networking and How to Pitch your Project
- How to approach Funding Applications
- Performance Approach
- Wellbeing in the creative industries – how to maintain balance between work and life
Guest Artist Practice Based Workshops
- Repertoire with Richard Alston
- Improvisation and performance approach with Annie Edwards
- Choreography and structuring phrases with Bar Groisman
- Artistic Gremlins with Liam Francis
- Introduction to Intimacy Coordination with Christina Fulcher
Participant Led workshops
Our Over to You sessions, devised and led by project participants, are a chance for dancers to explore an idea with a small group, to contribute to an R&D, support a funding application, or just for enjoyment and discovery. So far, we have had Over to You sessions including:
- Choreography with Julian Nichols
- Repertoire with Odyl Creations
- Research & Development with Liam Woodvine
- Choreography: Repertory and creative tasks with Dickson Mbi
- Funding: where to find it and how to apply for it
Participant Led workshops
- Funding Applications Surgery
- Working with Text with Eloïse Poulton
- Dance Photography Workshop with Jack Thomson
- Further Over to You sessions exploring a range of skill and material to share and teach peers
- Celebration and Launch Event, our biggest open sharing event, also including some special activities planned for this day, to celebrate all we have achieved this year and launch some exciting future projects coming up with Rinova
Future Plans and Vision
Our Autumn programme is about to be released and will include a chance to catch up on some of our most popular sessions that you may have missed the first time round. There will be also be some new titles, so watch this space.
Dancers exploring and learning their creative soft skills in a reflective task before sharing back to the group their findings.
Dancers in conversation about performance approach with Anhelo Collective
Dancers in rehearsal with Sir Richard Alston preparing for a performance.
SHARING, NETWORKING AND PERFORMANCE
We regularly factor in opportunities to share work, choreography and ideas-in-progress with other participants and also with a wider audience, in order to obtain constructive feedback.
Our Open Sharing events have provided a relaxed opportunity for participants to share films, duets and other forms of short live and recorded performance.
