Education
MotionManual are committed to sharing their creative vision and open up their dance and performance activities
inviting local and touring communities to join our artistic outreach initiatives.
Its is one of the company's priority and a great pleasure to especially enable children and young people to
benefit and learn from our professional skills and experience.
Our participatory work with schools and communities is an inspiration for everyone involved and facilitates drawing greater attention towards contemporary art in general creating links between artists and new audiences.
Alongside each work, the company devise and deliver a variety of educational packages for all age and ability groups offering an insight into our working processes and encouraging creativity and experimentation in dance. Furthermore we deliver teacher training and consultation as well as residencies and choreographic workshops at vocational training and higher education institutions.
Our primary aim is to offer sessions combining different art forms, cultures and languages promoting the collective's internationality and building creative partnerships based on collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds, individuality and freedom of expression.
Please contact the company for further information, requirements and bookings: Contact
Examples of MotionManual's outreach work:
Professional Class - Yorkshire Dance, Leeds
A combination of dynamic Vinyasa Flow Yoga practice and technical warm up, leading into a series of movement sequences following the principles of Release and Flying Low Techniques
Repertoire Workshops – Moves Festival, Wakefield
Master classes with performing arts students exploring devising process and choreographic vocabulary of HYB
Simply Bossa - St John Fisher High School Harrogate
Artist in Residence and development of a performance piece with GCSE and A-level students
Take one picture Project - Project with Creative Partnerships
Teacher training for interdisciplinary work with dance, music and visual arts in primary schools throughout Yorkshire
Hothfield Junior School Residency – Project with Creative Partnerships
Six-months interdisciplinary collaboration project combining dance, music and maths
Dance Fusion Sessions - Diversity Dance, Huddersfield
Indian and Contemporary dance and music tution at primary schools throughout Lancaster
Workshop for professional dancers– Porton de Sanchez, Buenos Aires/Argentina
Contemporary Dance and Contact Improvisation Intensive Seminar
Growing Coriander– Rhodesway School, Bradford
Youth Theatre Production
Corpus in Tone – Hull City Arts
Performance Project with GCSE Dance students