With somatic movement practice as a safe ground, this workshop considers how letting go – physical, metaphorical and psychological – informs living, being and relating, undoing Western obsessions with supremacy and individuality.

We will work relationally, with the environment and with each other, accepting messiness and failure as necessary for creative adventure.

You are welcome to bring an object that represents something you might like to let go of.

Ideas and practices are inspired by Emilyn’s book FALLING Through Dance and Life (Bloomsbury 2021).

Registration and info: praxistrondheim@gmail.com

About PRAXIS Trondheim

PRAXIS Trondheim is an initiative by Trondheim-based dance artists. With PRAXIS Trondheim, we want to create a space for sharing artistic practices for performing artists as well as other movement enthusiasts in Trondheim and beyond. In form of weekly classes, workshops, open stage events and artist talks, we offer a platform for exchange and discussion with movement as a foundation.

https://www.praxistrondheim.com

About the artist

Emilyn Claid is a choreographer, writer, director and teacher, working between academic and professional dance contexts, interested in the processes and practices of making movement based performance. She also works as a Gestalt/existential psychotherapist and enquiries from both fields are integrated into practice based research projects. Her career stretches back to the 1960s when she was a ballet dancer and the 1970s when she was co founder of X6 Dance Space in London and co-editor of New Dance Magazine. In the 1980s she was artistic director of Extemporary Dance Theatre; and in the 1990 worked with Phoenix Dance Company and Candoco Dance Company while performing and producing her own shows such as Virginia Minx at Play (1992). In 1997 she was awarded a PhD and published a book, Yes? No! Maybe… Seductive Ambiguity in Dance Theatre Performance (Routledge 2006). Between 2003-2013 she was Director of BA & MA Choreography at Dartington College of Arts and during the merger with Falmouth University she played a major role in developing the dance and choreography courses.