Lucy will be running a series of workshops throughout the residency and would love to work with people who are interested in exploring Shakespeare and the Renaissance through a theatre practice with specific relevance to movement-based practice.

There will be two strands to the project:

• a performance-based project
• open workshops where people could choose to drop in and out

Lucy has worked as a movement practitioner at the RSC for two years and most recently worked as Movement Director on A Tender Thing. She also assisted on the Grain Store. She has worked as a choreographer, dancer and movement teacher in drama schools in London.  

PERFORMANCE PROJECT

Lucy will lead a workshop every two weeks from the beginning of the Spring Term weeks looking at a social dance from the period, in total five dances. These workshops will aim to unlock the form, in order to make a deeper kinaesthetic connection to the Renaissance world. The outcome of the workshops will then be presented in the form of a choreographed piece also involving professional actors/dancers and to be performed in a local period location.

We are looking for a core group of eight people to work with over the period of the Fellowship where a commitment of three hours every two weeks will be necessary.

The workshops will be movement-based and require a good level of physical training. Participants should have performance experience in theatre, dance, physical theatre or should have movement training. 

OPEN WORKSHOPS

We are very interested to work with people from a variety of disciplines, in particular students and staff interested in aspects of the Renaissance. We plan to host some movement-based sessions which will be open to students of History, History of Art, English, Medicine and Theatre Studies. These workshops will last for two hours and be held every two weeks.

If you are interested in taking part in the performance project or the workshops, please send me your contact details (department, email and mobile number) including a brief statement of your interests and relevant experience to Lucycullingford@yahoo.com