A Licence to Dance:

A Movement Cultivation Workshop by Tal Siano & Anna Spink

Exploring ways to release our minds and bodies from expectation and form. Allowing movement with sensitivity; liberated from thought or judgement. Finding pleasure in being with yourself, and part of a collective composition.

*For booking details: see bottom of page.

Workshop Duration:

1hr 45 mins (1hr workshop exercises + 45 min composition class)

Workshop Overview:

‘Tuning In’ & Release Exercises: (1hr Facilitated Workshop)

Movement Meditations:

Meeting yourself and your environment before meeting others, exploring internal to external sensation and stimuli.

Guided Visualisations:

Textures, dynamic qualities, body parts, negative space, closeness vs distance.

The ‘Gaze’:

Focus-based: peripheral, soft, direct.

Composition/ Movement Improvisation: (45 mins, Facilitated Workshop/ Composition/ Jam)

Parameters to Play with:

Text: Elements of spoken-word, poetry, repeated sounds/ pitch/ intonations.
Flocking Technique: Interconnected group movement.
Stillness: Staggered moments of stillness vs moving and stopping in unison through active group ‘listening’.
Contact vs Negative Space: Solo/ duo/ trio.
Mirroring Action: Inspiration of movement from fellow participants.
Question/ Answer Movement: Non-verbal communication/ playful conversation through movement.
Music vs Silence: Percussive, organic sounds of silence vs instrumental influences.

A Licence to Dance workshops bring people together in a celebratory movement cultivation. We invite you to connect, play and explore viscerally: serving tools for independent investigation and community grooving. Dance with us in an environment where you are licensed to let go, live presently, liberate from learned limitations. To paraphrase Funkadelic:

“Free your ass… And your mind will follow.”

Meet the Facilitators

Anna Spink [left]:

“I am a contemporary dance artist with seven years of experience, specialising in improvisation and composition. My movement practice is inspired by promoting collaborative arts engagement as a mode of improving mental, physical and social wellbeing within communities. My particular dance interests are in movement improvisation. Fascinated by the limitless potential, intuition and sensitivity involved with improvised movement, I work this device both as a tool for research and within performance creations. Sharing and exchanging skills with specialists in different fields, I strongly believe that collaboration unlocks innovation.”

Credentials:

ISTD Advanced 1 Classical Ballet [2010]

ISTD Advanced 1 Modern Theatre Dance [2010]

BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance [2012-2015]

CIMSPA Level 3 Personal Training [2016]

Health & Wellbeing Coaching [2017-present]

Assisted Stretch Therapy (PNF, ROM, Somatic Practices) [2017-present]

Contemporary Dance Performer, Choreographer & Workshop Collaborations [2016-present]

Tal Siano [right]:

“My name is Tal Siano, born in Israel, I have lived in New York, Kathmandu, Tel Aviv and since 2014, in Berlin. Although I studied and worked in Film and Art, I was always drawn to Yoga, Dance, Bodywork and Meditation Practices as means of connecting with people beyond culture. Through physical exploration, I cultivate healing for myself and others: removing the potential barrier of verbal language. As well as my experience with somatic coaching and transformative bodywork, I have set up and managed Wellness Corners at festivals.”

Credentials:

Thai Yoga Massage [2013]

Iyengar Yoga [2015]

Hatha Yoga Teacher [2017]

Somatic Coaching [2020]

Transformative Bodywork Sessions [present]

Bookings

For details of pricing, availability and bookings with Anna & Tal to facilitate A Licence to Dance workshops for your next event, festival or gathering, please email: anna.spink.arts@gmail.com

Alternatively, please complete an enquiry form on the ‘Contact’ page with Subject line:

‘A Licence to Dance’.

Thank you :)