Deborah is an experienced dance artist, choreographer and movement director working collaboratively across dance, theatre, film and site based practice. She creates work independently and as co-director of Light/Ladd/Emberton, regularly performs for others, movement directs for theatre and lectures in movement at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She is based in Cardiff and has 3 young children.

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An anti patriarchal perspective runs through Deborah’s creative practice. She invests in the moving body as a site for personal and collective knowledge and transformation. For her dancing is a site for deep research, pleasure and change.

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In these classes Deborah will share ways of working that are fundamental to her creative practice and specific physical scores that are woven through the work she is currently developing ‘An Autopsy of a Mother, a Bear and a Fridge’.

We will begin by activating the spine, breath and central nervous system. Moving out to the periphery of the body we will work with a softening and re-establishing our edges, with pressure through external surfaces and with directionality through different parts of our body.

We will work alone and in contact with others.
 

Class is open to all with movement experience. The work is rigorous in attention without holding expectations of the forms that will emerge. Pleasure is always a priority.