Catch the Curve Contemporary Workshop with Lucia Kickham

Date:

Mon 27 Jan 2025

Time:

13:00 - 16:00

Please Note:

No external footwear allowed in studio. Shoe covers can be provided at reception if requested.

Venue:

DanceHouse

Admission:

€20 Non-members / €15 DI Members

Level:

Professional/Advanced

Teacher:

Lucia Kickham

Flying Low is a dance technique developed by Venezuelan dance artist David Zambrano. Its main focus is the dancer’s relationship with the floor. Passing Through is a complex system of spontaneous composition based on collective leadership, interconnection and infinite possible pathways in space.

In this workshop Lucia will introduce the participants to the key elements of these movement approaches. The workshop builds up from gentle exercises and develops into more energetic and expansive sequences. In Flying Low, we'll work with the natural spiral patterns within the body and in Passing Through explore the use of spirals in space. Groundedness, efficiency of movement, practicality, open awareness and group dynamics are important elements at play in this movement training.

ABOUT Lucia Kickham

Lucia Kickham is a Wexford based dance artist. Trained in the Netherlands she has worked with companies and artists including Liz Roche Company, Company Philip Connaughton, Junk Ensemble, Maria Nilsson Waller, Laura Murphy, TRASH(NL) and Oonagh Kearney.

Training intensively with David Zambrano in Flying Low and Passing Through techniques, Lucia has developed her interest in group dynamics within improvisation, composition and teaching environments. She has received coaching from Rosalind Crisp in choreographic improvisation and is invested in this line of research. Lucia is a guest tutor at IWAMD at University of Limerick and regularly leads workshops at dance centres across Ireland.

In recent years she has been a recipient of awards from Dance Ireland, Dance Limerick, Tipperary Dance, Grand Studio Brussels, Tanztendenz Munich and the Arts Council of Ireland, including the Next Generation and Commission Awards.

As a dance performer Lucia has toured extensively across the UK and Sweden and has presented her own work at Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, side.kicks Festival Munich, Modes of Capture Symposium, What's Next Festival Limerick.

Lucia was Dance Ireland HATCH Artist 2018 and Associate Artist with Liz Roche Company 2018/21. In 2022 she took up the role of rehearsal director on Step Up, a development programme for early career dancers.

Read more about her HERE

www.luciakickham.com

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