DIY Nights - IMPRINT#LOVE

About the Night:

A Writing Workshop - A Dance Performance - A Love Party

IMPRINT#LOVE is a participatory dance project & creative writing workshop reimagining love and its practice. During the event, participants are guided through composing ‘love manuals’ in response to a series of nine improvised movement scores that unravel in front of them. The event concludes with an optional facilitated circle, offering space to read excerpts, reflect and connect with others. Upon the participants' consent, the writings are gathered and shaped into a Collective Love Manual that is then shared with those in attendance.

About the Artists:

Delicia is a UK based dance theatre artist, choreographer and movement practitioner.​ Often in a mix of movement, imagery, text and sound her work takes various shapes and forms, from dance theatre performances to improvised participatory projects. Her ongoing creative research is exploring movement as an 'inter' space, a meeting place, a link between dance and theatre, ideas and practices, realities and fantasies, texts and bodies, the individual and the collective!

Xavi De Santos is an interdisciplinary artist working across dance and theatre with a focus on the theatrical potential of the moving body. As well as performing and creating with Dust Ensemble and AllouAqui Dance Theatre, Xavi runs Bath and Trowbridge Creative Playgrounds.He also facilitates for various dance schools and other community groups across the Southwest. You can find out more at www.xavierdesantos.com

Juliana Ruiz Torres is an interdisciplinary dance artist working across contemporary dance, somatic practice, and performance studies. Her work explores embodied relationships between people and environments through questioning, improvisation, and collaboration. Juliana works as a facilitator, performer, producer, researcher, and assistant director, creating reflective and transformative community spaces.

Anoushka was born in South East London. She trained on the Foundation Course at Northern School of Contemporary Dance before attending the International Dance Journey Programme with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and shortly afterwards Nuova Officina della Danza. She joined Jasmin Vardimon 2 (JV2) in 2017. Anoushka has performed work by choreographers such as Akram Khan, Jasmin Vardimon and Botis Seva and continues to perform on a freelance basis internationally.

Accessibility:

Please note, we are on the second floor of a warehouse building, accessed by a staircase only. We regret that we cannot currently adequately support wheelchair users and those for whom stairs are a barrier.

We are committed to removing other barriers to access. If you would like to talk to us about your access needs, please contact: frances@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk. Read more about our commitments to anti-ableism as part of our Artist Community Culture Document

About DIY Nights:

DIY Nights are CDS’s performance programme created in the spirit of grassroots, low stakes performance making and sharing.

Anyone can apply to run a DIY Night, and CDS programmes them on a rolling basis for artists looking for a way to try out new ideas with low financial risk.

If you are interested in running your own night, you can learn more and apply here.