Professional Class with Katherine O’Malley

Katherine works from a release technique basis, reaffirming natural movement facility, range of motion and bodily dynamics. Drawing on her recent study into natural movement behaviour through her Amatsu practice the class will include some martial arts, yoga and somatic practices with instructive anatomical visualisations. The class focusses on helping participants to trust and understand instinctual and proprioceptive skills and more fully embody already learned codified dance language. The class will culminate in facilitating the participants to develop or interrogate their own decisions, quality and relationships with dance material creatively.

Katherine O'Malley is a multidisciplinary dance artist, educator with a performance career that spans 3 decades encompassing contemporary dance, ballet, opera, theatre and film. With the Tatartstan Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan (RS), Katherine performed in both ballet and opera productions as a member of the corps de ballet (1994-97). She worked with Liz Roche Company (Rex Levitates) performing with, teaching, assisting on various projects, residencies and festivals with the company in Ireland and abroad (1999-2018). She has performed and created work with many other notable choreographers and directors in theatre, dance and opera in Ireland and abroad - most recently with Michelle Read, Ella Clarke and Pan Pan Theatre.

Katherine leads professional and company classes or training for theatre and dance companies around Ireland. She is part of the teaching faculty at the College of Dance in Dublin and facilitates her own workshops for mothers and babies around Ireland called MEET MIND MOVE PLAY – designed and developed to help mothers rehabilitate, balance and reclaim strength postnatally.