You & Us - Exploring Invisibility Through Movement and Narrative

Workshop: You & Us - Exploring Invisibility Through Movement and Narrative

Led by Cathy Waller Company | Facilitated by Cathy Waller alongside a company dancer

This workshop invites professional dancers, makers, and those in vocational training into a shared space of movement, reflection and choreographic exploration.

You & Us is currently on a UK tour. Using exhibition, film, discussion and embodied practice as a starting point, participants will dive into its ideas of invisibility, visibility, and narrative: what is unseen, unheard, hidden, or overlooked, and how movement can reveal, hold, or transform these experiences.

Through warm-up, guided exercises, improvisation, and choreographic tasks, participants will explore how invisibility can be expressed physically and creatively, while considering how dance and making can become tools for recognition, empathy and making others feel seen. Together, we will investigate how embodied practice can uncover hidden narratives and generate new ways of seeing ourselves and one another.

This workshop is an inclusive, supportive space for all participants. Movers are encouraged to engage in ways that feel right for them and to participate in whatever way feels most comfortable, safe, and authentic. As a disabled artist, Cathy welcomes participants of all backgrounds, bodies, and lived experiences to join.If you have any access requirements or need further information to support your participation, please contact lydia@cathywaller.com and we will do our best to support you.

SCHEDULE

10:30 - 10:40 Welcome

10:40 - 11:10 Exhibition & film as a provocation

11:10 - 11:30 Sharing invisibility exercise

11:30 - 11:45 BREAK

11:45 - 12:15 Warm up

12:15 - 13:00 Choreographic exercises looking into invisibility and narrative

13:00 - 13:15 Sharing of ideas

13:15 - 13:30 Debrief and closing

This workshop is delivered by Cathy Waller Co in partnership with Chisenhale Dance Space.