Andromeda Graziano Artist-Led Session [in-person]
Fingers and Toes: Discovering New Connections
+ £4.00 building maintenance fee
This workshop offers time and space to delve into the embodied state to discover connections and movement potential stemming from your fingers and toes.
Knowing your body better creates a rich vocabulary of movement, and understanding your body better allows true awareness of where your movement derives and why. The aim is to create awareness and knowledge so that you can permanently acquire a deep conversation between your “self” and your movement.
From this place of deepened awareness through experiential anatomy we can embody each finger, tracing its specific lineage and connections from your hands, out to the radius, ulna, humerus, shoulder girdle and scapula, enabling you to move from these discovered places, spaces and experiences. This process is applied with equal benefit when tracing connections from your toes through to your feet, tibia, fibula, femur, hip joints and pelvic girdle. What follows is the discovery of a new sense of movement from these freshly inhabited spaces to find new connections: sensing how and why everything interacts, inhibits or encourages movement, thereby creating an enriched physical-movement vocabulary for life.
Time and space offers the gift to sense, feel, move, draw, write, rest and share.
This workshop is viable for all movers with all their diversity of experience, and all you need is a desire to investigate these areas, discover new connections and enhance your movement practice.
This will be a hybrid session, taking place in person and online. If you would prefer to attend this workshop via Zoom, please click here for further information and to book.
Part of Sadler’s Wells Artist Development Programme: Artist-Led Sessions. You can find out more about the selection process for this programme online here.
Header image credit: A still taken from ‘Leap of Faith’ a dance film Andromeda choreographed in 2022.
Andromeda Graziano is a movement research artist and choreographer. Born in London of Sicilian heritage, she trained in classical ballet at the Royal Ballet School (JA) and Merle Park Studios; and in contemporary dance with a BA (Hons) in Dance & Drama at Middlesex University, and a 1 Year Special Certificate in Contemporary Dance and Choreography at London Contemporary Dance School.
After performing for Janet Smith and Dancers, Tamara McLorg and Ian Woolley she co-formed ‘White Monkey Trip’, a contemporary dance company that toured the London contemporary dance circuit.
A Somatic Movement Educator, Certified Practitioner and Certified Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® she studied Pilates Based Body Awareness with Christine Hocking, and influenced by her method and passion, has taught Pilates based rehabilitation work for the past 25 years. She is currently working with Ian Woolley and electronicgypsy films on ‘the Golden feather’ a full-length dance film with original script in collaboration with the students of the school and is in throes of creating a piece with concert pianist Raul Jimenez to Schumann’s ‘Fantasiestücke Op.12’, 8 short pieces to be presented in public spaces that have pianos in situ and performances planned in Spain.
In the pipeline is a collaboration with Ian Woolley to Greig’s ‘Death of Aase’ a piece for 3 mature dancers based on mother-child relationships; and a reframing of the classic ‘Manon Lescaut’ by Abbe Prevost into a short dance film.
Always inspired by dance, music, film, art, and nature, family is key. An avid cook, keen gardener and painter, and lover of animals, travel, and French literature, the beach is where she finds her feet
Heath & Access Requirements
We encourage participants to share any access information that might be useful for the team to know ahead of this workshop. We can put a range of things in place to best support your participation. Please contact artist.development@sadlerswells.com with your specific requirements and feel free to include any access riders.
Performances
Age 16 - 30?
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