Lisa May Thomas - Open class and work in Progress at Dartington Hall

Please see the bellow message from the lovely Lisa May Thomas who will be resident at Dartington Hall in October with her dancers. This is a fantastic opportunity to take class with them and to also see the work in its beginning stages.

grassblades research and development project - film dance sound

Director and Choreographer Lisa May Thomas will be in residence at Dartington Space with her company of dancers; Niall tyzack-Carlin, Isabelle Cressy, Lucy Haighton, Rachele Rapisardi and Anne-Gaelle Thiriot, Composer and Sound Designer Andy Pink and Film-maker Dan Farberof. The team will be working on themes connected to TS Elliot's The Wasteland and The America Trilogy by John Dos Passos alongside an exploration into physical contact between humans how it connects us with our stories and the spaces we inhabit. Using improvisation-based scores, Lisa will be investigating and instigating relationships between movement and sound and working with a moving camera eye in the space to form compositional structures, characters and scenes. She will also be working with mentors Lois Taylor and Angus Balbernie as part of this residency process.

Participation opportunities

All sessions will take place in studio 6 and are free to participants, your ideas and feedback are welcome to support our process.

Company class

As part of the studio time, Lisa and her team of dancers will be offering two morning sessions from 9.30-10.45am to local dance artists.

Monday 22nd October will be an Improvisation-based session with Lisa May Thomas

Wednesday 24th October will be a Contemporary dance class with Lois Taylor

The studio will be open at 9.15am, if you can please arrive promptly so that we can begin together.

Open rehearsal session on Tuesday 23rd October between 3-4pm

You are invited to come and observe the working process.

Informal sharing onThursday 25th October from 5.15-6pm.

You are invited to come and watch some 'extracts' of from the research and development week and ask any questions to Lisa and the team.

Please email Lisa May Thomas lisamay.thomas@mac.com to register your interest in these opportunities.

This is a research and development project and is supported by Arts Council England, Dartington Space, ICIA, Arnolfini, Plymouth University, Dancespace and Theatre Bristol.After our time at Dartington, we will be in residence at the ICIA at the University of Bath in January and the Arnolfini in Bristol in March 2013. 

Please visit www.lisamaythomas.co.uk for more details.