Weekly Professional Class with Helga Deasy

This class focuses on exploration, play and connection, with the aim to foster bodily awareness, to find expressivity and to develop creative skills.

It is informed by a choreological approach, which is the contemporary development of Rudolf Laban’s principles for the performing arts.

We will take time to connect with the body and our breath as a movement source. Drawing from the research process behind the making of Helga’s recent work Through the Valley She Runs we will discover qualities of flow within structured improvisation frameworks, explore a short sequence and play, move and create together.

Helga Deasy (Ireland/Germany) is a choreographer, dance artist and dance facilitator. Exploring themes of identity, belonging, migration and care through the immediate expressive potential of the moving body, her practice encompasses performance making, cross-disciplinary collaboration and socially engaged dance. It is grounded in choreological studies and her research into somatic practices and empowerment. A recipient of multiple awards, Helga has created a body of work for stage and film presented nationally and internationally. She feels passionate about the transformative potential of dance and works in arts and health settings, is a lead-facilitator on the Teacher Artist Partnership Programme and an early-years arts practitioner with Graffiti Theatre Company.