Flex Embodied Flow Contemporary African Dance Intensive

This is a fun and enjoyable intensive workshop offering dance and movement enthusiast a transformative experience that will allow you to explore and experience the dance mind / body connection from within.

The experience will allow you to deepen your understanding of the embodied nature of movement and dance within a spiritual context. Develop new skills and ways of moving to extend and enhance your connection, flow and presence.

A personal development opportunity that will introduce you to a collective landscape of new and different rhythms and beats. You will improve your musicality and your physical response to music. Extend your movement skills, and learn new ways of expressing yourself, enabling you to deepen your understanding of your body and how to further explore its potential.

This workshop is aimed at people who want to improve and develop their dancing to a higher level, and would like to be challenged with more complex steps and choreographic sequences. An opportunity to extend and enrich your mind and body and increase your skills through engaging with movement and dance from an embodied perspective negotiating body, space, breath, weight and rhythm to allow expression to unfold with more freedom and ease.

The session is led by movement artist Francis Angol, a choreographer/performer, Somatic Movement Educator/ Therapist, and lecturer in dance. The experience will take you through a most enlightened journey, exploring Angol's approach to contemporary dance art that draws from the philosophical teachings and practices of dance from the African Diaspora, Western Contemporary dance and Somatic practice.

Somatics is a movement practice which works on awakening one's awareness of the body, working from internal perception and experience. The method works by deepening one’s connection to, and understanding of the body when moving. This encourages, and enables the individual to cultivate a deeper connection, flow and presence in their dancing.

So book your place and come along and move with the rhythm of the beat in harmony with your own beat, and join Francis in this 2-hour dance mind/body intensive, exploring his unique approach to dance art that focuses on developing one’s individual mode of expression.