Between 2016 & 2018, I co-facilitated the dance workshops called “Rising” which took place at Dartington Hex studios on the old campus that moved lock & stock to the academy at Falmouth University which I attended for 2 years while doing my degree.
My main job was the music, designing the 80 minute soundscape (on Cubase), setting up & running the sound system & helping lead the participants into the dance by using a shaker & generally vibing.
The video above was filmed & edited by myself on Adobe Premier Pro & is shown with full permission of all the participants, of which I was one.
I now wish to combine my knowledge & training with warm up games, gained at the academy, & experience with the Rising workshops, to develop a new kind of workshop focusing on enhancing interaction & thereby confidence & self esteem with many different kinds of people.
I wish to take these workshops initially to festivals in 2020 then hopefully into the wider world to eventually work in prisons & with special needs groups.
For the past few years’ summer seasons, I have been volunteering with Majical Youth who run the kids areas at the big festivals. I help to put up the marquees & run workshops teaching drama to large groups of children. For this we get a free ticket (often worth up to £200), expenses & 3 meals a day. Every day of the festival, twice a day, our group of volunteer facilitators would process through the site in full costume to invite people to take part or to watch the completed play which would be written & performed entirely by the children, with our help.
I also sometimes join in & jam with the Samba band who process around the site & I have also led a Samba drumming workshop at the Into The Wild Festival near Brighton.
We also took the Rising workshop to Buddhafield Festival in 2018 where we were filmed for local television.
Ready for drama Processing
