Class today is Ballet w/ Geoffrey Watson
Please note, today’s class is free to attend. To celebrate FRAME, LGI Morning Class will be free from 1-31 March 2023, with special guest teachers on FRAME FRIDAYS. First in, best dressed, no pre-bookings.
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Geoffrey’s class uses ballet as a framework to facilitate your own personal movement interests.
We will employ the technical facility that ballet training provides to enhance our ability to make choices whilst dancing—finding heightened sensation, fantasy and physical freedom through these means. Class will focus on imagery and musicality as an inroad to the finer points of ballet technique. Dancers can use this class as an opportunity to focus on their own movement obsessions, whether that be somatic investigation, performativity, achieving or diverging from traditional ballet aesthetics—all is available.
Class will follow a typical ballet class structure, moving from warm-up and technical exercises at the barre to more open exercises in the centre. It will involve the quick learning of material and use of ballet terminology.
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This class is aimed towards contemporary dancers with at least a foundational knowledge of classical ballet. However, dancers with different levels of experience with ballet are welcome.
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About Geoffrey Watson
Geoffrey Watson SC is a Melbourne-based artist, whose work is rooted in choreography and has branches in wearable design, text, lighting, sculpture and photography.
Geoffrey’s performance works include Camel (Next Wave Festival 2016), DISTRACTION: T.C. Is a piece of shit (Counihan Gallery, 2017), Geoffrey’s Corpse (Uferstudios, Berlin, 2019), Rachael Wisby (Newport Substation, 2019) and It Happens to me Every Summer (video work for The Australian Ballet, 2021).
As a performer, Geoffrey has worked with companies and artists including Phillip Adams BalletLab, Lucy Guerin Inc, Nana Biluš-Abaffy, Natalie Abbott, Lee Serle, Alisdair Macindoe, and Gekidan Kaitaisha.
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