Leila McMillan
Flying Low and Passing Through workshop
Leila McMillan - Flying Low and Passing Through workshop
For 2 days we will dive into the world of Flying Low and Passing Through. Flying Low focuses on our relationship with the floor. We will dissolve the hard floor into a lush swimming pool by transforming our bodies into water. Through individual and group movement phrases we will challenge gravity, learning how to fall, how to rise, and how to command our body as we change qualities. We will move in and out of the floor efficiently with speed without forgetting any part of our body. We will dive, roll, slide, gather and send. Passing Through, an improvisation technique working with the philosophy that movement needs no leader in creation. We will begin with the basic principles of walking, running, pausa, following and leading and looping. Specifically working with instant adaptation and transforming the environment of the dance while playing with expansion and cohesion. We will be soft, wild and powerfully spontaneous. We will work to see the room full of infinite pathways passing through the walls, the floor and the bodies.
Leila McMillan is an International choreographer, dance artist and teacher currently based in London. She is currently a guest lecturer at London School of Contemporary Dance and has taught workshops throughout Europe, North and South America, Russia and Lebanon. She was one of 50 artists chosen to be a part of 50 days of Flying Low and Passing Through with David Zambrano in Costa Rica. Her work has been supported by Blueprint Bursary 2008, Sadler’s Wells, Laban Theatre, Greenwich Dance, Arts Council England, Tripspace Projects, LEM (Argentina), La Caldera (Spain) and Plesna Teater Ljubljana (Slovenia). She has recently made a new work Family Portrait and has been invited to curate a Wild Card at Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, in December 2015.
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