Weekly Professional Class with Natasha Bourke

After taking time to land via selected physical, breath, and vocal exercises, Natasha will prompt some playful movement inquiries. The aim is to observe the body as matter whilst embracing sense and range of capacity, sounding, balance, direction, weight, tone, articulation, autonomy, counterpoint, pace, scale, transition, and exchange.

Natasha Bourke is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish/Dutch descent with a fine art and extensive movement background (contemporary, body weather, butoh, poetic/authentic movement, breakdance, folk, jazz, ballet, tightrope, vertical/aerial dance, acrobatics, physical theatre, mime, clown, object-manipulation, swimming, rowing, yoga, taichi, qi gong). Her practice spans performance, film, photography, installation, archive, text, drawing, and sound to contemplate existential themes with humorous, sincere, dark, and dreamlike poeticism. As part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2024, Bourke unveiled her striking one-woman multidisciplinary swimming pool-based performance vision, 'Kilter, Matter and Ghosts', at the Gus Healy swimming pool in Ballintemple. It had a 4-night sell-out run and was featured on RTE Radio Arena, The Irish Times, Examiner, Tripe & Drisheen, and Circostrada Arts publication. She also had a sell-out premiere of her feature 'Concrete Keys' at Cork International Film Festival 2022 with subsequent screenings at IFI, SIRIUS, Triskel Cinema, Midleton Arts and Experimental Dance Music Film festivals and was featured in the Irish Times, Examiner and The Paper. Other works include Currach-based performance T.U.G! Litter Womb on Lough Foyle, Derry for EchoEcho 2021, and filmic installation Rubblebubble as part of IndieCork 2019. She is an active mariner, Yoga NAAD practitioner and is in the early research stages for a new moving image work examining identity and ancestral erasure in post-colonial Ireland as well as live work inquiry themed around autonomous and involuntary bodily movement

More info on Kilter, Matter and Ghosts: linkfly.to/60616BjU8Uu

Email: natashabourke.artist@gmail.com

Web: vimeo.com/natashabourke

Instagram: @natashabourkeartist