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Workshops coming up *****

derby dance         hoot     wallpaper

   

Yoga Partner workshop

Sunday Feb 12 & Sunday March 11

10.30-12.30. £15.00         partner work

This workshop will probebly be the most fun you can have doing yoga!

Working with a partner will help  your yoga  by going deeper into some of the poses, and develop ways of sharing and supporting weight.

 Some yoga experience would be an advantage, but also as a positive attitude and an openess to new ideas.

To book a place contact www.theyogaspace.co.uk

The Yoga Space, Chapel House, 378 Meanwood Road Leeds, LS7 2JF

 0113 2620055/ 07501 463275


 Dance in the Gallery

The World Within Us

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/events.htm

Sat March 10th. 1.30-4 FREE 

Dance workshop @ Stanley and Audrey Burton gallery  

Parkinson Building • Woodhouse Lane • University of Leeds
Leeds • LS2 9JT

The workshop will explore the themes and ideas of Pip Dickens’s exhibition . It will be an unfolding journey through the artwork, engaging with shape, form, pattern and sequence. Small performances will be shared by participants at the end of the workshop. This is a unique opportunity to invent and perform dance improvisations inspired by art.

Please book with the gallery
Telephone: 0113 343 2778
http://theworldwithin.eventbrite.com

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Gerry is also planning some workshops in Manchester Galleries, and further workshops with the Galleries in Leeds later in the year.

The Space Between Greentop Circus Centre Sat/Sun May 19/20 2012 11am~5pm £80/70          space between         

This is an opportunity for both ground-based performers and aerial dancers to come together. The workshop will develop  some common ground in the ‘space between’ air and floor

The emphasis will be on play as a creative tool, improvisation, partnerships with the equipment, the space and each other. The focus will be on new ways of working, with encouragement to dive into unknown territories.

For booking and further information contact Lauren at Greentop Circus Centre www.greentop.org  

0114 2448828

 

 Yoga on Mondays 

The Yoga Shackyoga

Upstairs @ LS6 Café    Hyde Park Leeds    

Every Monday 6~7.15 £6/5.00  

Gerry's yoga class is based on a combination of Hatha and Iyengar Yoga; and some dance stretches. It provides an opportunity to focus on the breath and open the joints and muscles in the body in a gentle and playful way. She works on correcting skeletal alignment, and using yoga to make the body more mobile for use in everyday movement.  www.theyogashack.com

 OTHER EVENTS coming up.....

  •  The Space Between. Aerial Dance workshop @ Greetop Circus Centre.  Sheffield.   19/20 May £80/70 please book with Greentop

  • Partner-work Yoga Sundays Feb 12 /March 11 10.30-1. Yoga Space Leeds
  • Practising Creativity Laban Trinity March 2012workshop with Gerry, and Kim Gregory from Hoot Music. This is a  practical training workshop for professionals, community dance teachers and practitioners, with an emphasis on developing good practice in the field of dance and mental health.  

              

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Previous Work

No Grown-Ups Allowed

 This was a commission from I Love West Leeds Festival. Sam Lawrence and muscian Daniel Weaver joined Turveyworld for this  crazy event on the swings at Bramley Childrens Playground

To see images and film of the final event..... http://vimeo.com/28658511

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizziecoombes/sets/72157627138942185/                                                                              

Playground    playground2  Playground 3photos Phil Moody

Glad Rags Togs and Clobber.  

Performance in Co-op Shop window, Armley Town Street Saturday January15th 3pm.

  The shop window was transformed by the performers and large quantities of clothes and bras which  created a series of highly visual and physical images and moments full of humour and a taste for adventure......it stopped traffic!

                shopwindow                 bra event
 

                                                                                photo Laurie Ray

 

Turveyworld’s Choreography in unusual places has brought exciting performances to surprised audiences.

Gerry has been creating public dance performances in different sites and areas of both City and other environments for the past twenty years.
   

 Images of the very successful multidisciplinary project Wallpaper Dancers @ Whitworth Art Gallery  and again as part of THE BIG DRAW events in Huddersfield and Leeds

 wallpaperwallpaper2the fourphotos photos Andy Wood 

Two dancers, two visual artists and lots of paper came together  with a muscian in a gallery space to create an unforgetable performance experience.

This project was supported by Arts Council England. Whitworth Art Gallery. Huddersfield Art Gallery. Stanley and Audrey Burton Art Gallery, Leeds.

For more images by Andy Wood of the Wallpaper Dancers  Residency and Performance @ Whitworth Art Gallery click

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30126699@N08/sets/72157624851371978

 

     HELD  Site specific performance with students at York St John University. Performances in York Castle Museum, prison cells Performances Nov/ Dec   

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