Shedule:
9 th November / Sunday
13.00 – 17.00
10 th November / Monday
13.00 – 17.00
Cost: PLN 350 (the application assumes a declaration of participation in both days)
Workshop place: Centre for Culture in Lublin (12 Peowiaków street), Rehearsal room no. 4
Joan Clevillé / fot. Sean Millar
This two-day workshop with Scottish Dance Theatre Artistic Director and choreographer Joan Clevillé is aimed at professional dancers, physical theatre practitioners and/or vocational students wanting to develop their skills and expand their performative range.
It is based on two key elements of Clevillé’s artistic practice: movement research (improvised movement guided through somatic and image-based scores) and experimentation with voice and movement (grounding the voice in the breath and physicality). Drawing from this practice, we will use the voice as an extra limb and reach with the body where words don’t get to, blurring the conventional boundaries between dance, theatre and storytelling.
The sessions will be grounded in somatic practice, and encourage playfulness, autonomy and creativity. “I am interested in movement as a live process of embodied awareness where the dancer is in real-time dialogue with different sources of information: their own physical sensations, their imagination, feelings, ideas… but also the environment around them and the people in it.”
Joan Clevillé has been the Artistic Director of Scottish Dance Theatre since April 2019.
Born in Barcelona, he combined his dance training at Elise Lummis’ La Companyia with studies in Humanities at University Pompeu Fabra. He worked internationally as a dancer and rehearsal director for seventeen years in companies across Europe, including Scottish Dance Theatre, Collective Endeavours, Lost Dog, Dog Kennel Hill Project, the Ballet of the Graz Opera, the Choreographic Centre of Valencia, and Ballet Carmen Roche.
In 2015, he created his own independent company, Joan Clevillé Dance, presenting his work extensively across the UK and mainland Europe. Since joining Scottish Dance Theatre as Artistic Director, Joan has created several stage and digital works for the company, receiving the Classical:NEXT 2021 Innovation Award for these bones, this flesh, this skin and two consecutive nominations as Best Independent and Mid-Scale Company at the UK National Dance Awards.
His choreographic practice is rooted both in movement research and experimentation with theatre and storytelling. Exploring the connections between breath, voice and movement, his works invite audiences to engage with their senses, intellect and imagination, and explore subjects connected to our contemporary reality and the notion of change.