The workshop for people over 50 focuses on creative expression through movement, inspired by exploration of themes within the company’s current touring productions or research projects. The workshop is taught by Maresa von Stockert and one company member or two experienced dancers of the company and lasts 2 hours.

Tilted Productions’s work is based on conceptual ideas, issues of contemporary life, themes that interest people of all ages and from diverse backgrounds. These ideas can easily be explored by people without highly skilled physicality, through curiosity, personal engagement and life experience rather than dance technique.

The company has a general interest in the untrained body and the creative potential of everyday movements and interaction with objects, irrespective of a person’s skill or physical limitations. For example, natural or familiar gestures are often developed into a movement sequence that is placed into a creative context through the juxtaposition of unusual timings, dynamics and musical references thus conveying a new meaning to the familiar.

In addition to gesture and pedestrian movement, props will be used as a movement catalyst encouraging choreographic inventiveness.

The workshop will include discussion of the company’s working process combined with creative tasks and short demonstrations to show the direct relationship to the working process. The participants will be encouraged to discover their own creative movement potential in relation to the themes of the company’s work.

The dancers aim to provide the participants with the direct experience of expressing ideas through movement and the workshop will focus on a joyful, exciting creative process for all participants.

Company members have an awareness of health and safety on a professional level, undertake capability assessment of participants and begin work with an appropriate, accessible warm-up. Maresa and her dancers have been working with people over 50 since 2004 and have extensive experience i working with this age group. Sessions are tailored to the particular needs of this group whilst remaining stimulating and challenging. Tilted regularly works with the Mercury Theatre's over 50s group ACT V delivering a series of workshops culminating in sharing events. This successful model is one the compay is looking to roll out. Do please contact us to find out how to take part or book sessions for your group.

It was so creative - we were challenged to use our imagination as well as our body. ACT V participant 2008

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Note:
This workshop is adjustable to different environments and can take place in a community hall, dance studio, gym or any bigger room where there is enough space for the participants to move freely. Participants need to wear comfortable clothes they can move in and trainers or socks (with anti-slide stickers on the bottom).

Maximum participant number is 20