Zosia
Jo
Date: Friday 4th & 11th April
Time: 10am - 11:30am
Venue: Chapter, Cardiff, The Dance Studio
About Zosia Jo
Zosia Jo is a dance artist and trainee gestalt psychotherapist. She studied at Northern School of Contemporary Dance (BA, 2008), Independent Dance / Trinity Laban (MA Creative Practice, 2018), Spectrum Therapy (2013-14) and currently Welsh Psychotherapy Institute.
Her creative work is rooted in somatic and improvised dance and also encompasses writing, drawing, video and installation. Zosia makes choreographic and participatory interventions that promote embodiment, enjoyable movement and body positivity for all, with an intersectional, eco-feminist agenda.
In addition to her creative work, Zosia has extensive teaching experience in community, Primary School and Higher Education settings, previously having lectured in Dance at University Wales Trinity Saint David and in movement for singers at Royal Welsh College of music and Drama.
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Class Description
​Zosia’s classes are mindful, playful, restful, improvised, and full of invitations based on natural imagery.
Often Zosia will draw on her practice entitled “Fabulous Animals”, developed over an extended research period, using animalistic imagery to access the instinctive self.
Through an image, language or sometimes touch (always optional), Zosia will guide dancers towards their own movement satisfaction and interest. Zosia is inspired by her embodied study of Body Mind Centering, Skinner Releasing Technique, Feldenkrais and therapeutic practice.​
Am Zosia Jo
​Mae Zosia Jo yn artist dawns a seicolegydd gestalt o dan hyfforddiant. Astudiwyd yn Northern School of Contemporary Dance (BA, 2008), Independent Dance / Trinity Laban (MA Creative Practice, 2018), Spectrum Therapy (2013-14) ac yn astudio yn Sefydliad Seicotherapi Cymru ar hyn o bryd.
Mae ei gwaith creadigol wedi ei wreiddio mewn dawns byrfyfyr a somatig, gan hefyd gynnwys ysgrifennu, darlunio, fideo a ymyriadau. Mae Zosia yn creu ymyriadau coreograffig a chyfranogol sy’n hybu ymgorfforiad, mwynhad trwy sumud a positifrwydd y corff i bawb, ag agenda groesdoriadol, eco-ffeministaidd.
Yn ychwanegol i’w gwaith creadigol, mae Zosia â profiad helaeth o ddysgu o fewn y gymuned, mewn ysgolion cynradd a lleoliadau addysg uwch, ac wedi darlithio Dawns ym Mhrifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant, a darlithio symud i gantorion yn y Coleg Cerdd a Drama.
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Am Dosbarth
​Mae dosbarthiadau Zosia yn ystyriol, yn chwareus, yn aflonydd, yn fyrfyfyr, ac yn llawn gwahoddiadau yn seiliedig ar ddelweddaeth naturiol.
Yn aml bydd Zosia yn tynnu ar ei hymarfer o’r enw “Fabulous Animals”, a ddatblygwyd dros gyfnod ymchwil estynedig, gan ddefnyddio delweddau anifeilaidd i gael mynediad i’r hunan reddfol.
Trwy ddelwedd, iaith neu weithiau cyffwrdd (bob amser yn ddewisol), bydd Zosia yn arwain dawnswyr tuag at eu boddhad a'u diddordeb symud eu hunain.
Mae Zosia wedi’i hysbrydoli gan ei hastudiaeth ymgorfforedig o Ganoli Meddwl y Corff, Techneg Rhyddhau Skinner, Feldenkrais ac ymarfer therapiwtig.
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