compass
Professional development programme for dancers and movement practitioners.
Are you a professional dancer or movement practitioner? Compass is our development programme, a space to be playful, open and curious, aimed at those with experience and interest in creative movement and improvisation practice.
Next Session:
Regenerate, Saturday 27th January
An invitation from Lois to reconnect and reawaken your body and creative flow as you land in the New Year.
“I will guide you through a warm up and into movement tasks and improvisations. You will have space
for independent moving and we will find focus as a group too. I hope you will leave the session feeling invigorated, connected, happy and inspired for future creativity!”
Session details:
Space open for cuppa, chat and stretch from 10.15 am
Guided session 11 am- 1 pm – prompt start
Option to stop for lunch till 2pm (bring food)
Tea and coffee available
Venue: Main Hall, Liskerrett Community Centre, Varley Lane, Liskeard PL14 4AP
Transport: Trains from Truro 9.30 arrive 10.19 or 9.56 arrive 10.44 (check times) – there is a 10 minute walk from the station to the venue.
Payment: All Compass sessions work on a pay what you can if you can basis, we suggest £10 – £20 but your choice.
Bring cash on the day or transfer to:
Dance Centred CIC - Nat West
Reference Compass
Account: 74160974
Sort Code: 53 70 17
Booking/info lois@dancecentred.co.uk or 07730586306
Session Lead: Lois Taylor www.loistaylor.co.uk
Feedback from previous sessions:
Our last session was based on Archetypal Expressions, led by California based dance artist Amanda Banks. The Liskerrett Centre hall was filled with dancers and movement explorers from across Cornwall.
“Thank you for a fabulous session, it was so lovely to meet everyone and play with archetypes together.”
“Inspiring session, wonderful to move with you all.”
what is the TROPICAL hibiscus paradise experience?
Tropical Hibiscus Paradise Experience was a community arts project led by Dance Centred and supported by Unit 3, Lostwithiel Town Council and LEAF. A fun and creative programme of Hawaiian themed dance and art for all ages in July 2023. This culminated in an interactive performance (promenade) in which the audience were invited to travel far with their imaginations without even leaving Lostwithiel.
This project couldn’t have been possible with our company of 22 volunteer stewards, performers, makers, dancer, tech support and general helped outers. We thank you all for helping to make our Tropical Hibiscus Extravaganza Performance event a fabulous thing for all who came.
The project encourages regenerative approaches to making work, low impact on the earths resources and brings creative attention to the vulnerability of the Hawaiian islands, who like us are affected by rising sea levels.
Volunteer feedback
“So happy to have been a part of so many magical journeys. Nice one Dance Centred! Aloha!”
Performance feedback
“Congratulations team Hibiscus we had a super time! Lots of fun and a wonderfully tropical adventure in the most unlikely of settings, thank you for brightening our day.
Thank you very much for the experience of travelling with you , we had such good fun”.
“Utterly brilliant, brilliant experience!! Was laughing with joy at each stage !! Bravo all”.
“We felt like we had been on holiday”
“Really loved the bazar joy of it all. I felt like I was really going away and for Laura who had never been on a plane before, we were really taken care of and even got to go to the VIP lounge. Really recommend this THPE, just saying it makes me want to Hula”.
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During August Sam was Artist in Residence at the Gatehouse, a wonderful little space on the Industrial Estate in Lostwithiel, hosted by UNIT 3, an artist led space and initiative led by Gary Marshall Stevens.
This was a fabulous opportunity to experiment, explore and allow creative ideas to grow (and blossom!) in collaboration with other local artists, without any set goals.
Inspired by the story of a local woman who used the Gatehouse for many years to tend to her extensive geranium collection, a long held fascination with all things Hawaiian and the spirit of Aloha plus a desire to play with ideas around tourist attractions and the possibility of an entirely zero carbon tropical holiday….the Tropical Hibiscus Paradise Experience grew.
The gatehouse was transformed into a tropical Hawaiian ‘Island’ – which involved days of painting tropical hibiscus flowers over the interior walls, creating a ‘beach’ of tropical sand and shells, and bedecking the space with Hawaiian flower garlands (Leis). The residency culminated in a work-in-progress event in the pouring rain on 4th September where approx. 40 people embarked on a ‘staycation with a difference’ using various sites on the industrial estate. Visitors received boarding passes at the gate and were ‘processed’ by an enthusiastic team of volunteers taking on the role of security guards and stewards. In small groups visitors went through passport control, security scanning and lots and lots of queuing with a heavy nod to the laborious process of going through an airport to go on holiday. They stopped off at a ‘rooftop’ tropical cocktail bar and were served tropical ice-creams at frequent intervals. Once on the Island visitors chose one of 3 tropical multi-sensory experiences before being guided on their return journey by a friendly exit steward.
Comments from visitors included:
“Thank you so much to Sam and her wonderful, colourful volunteers for a splendid, tropical holiday experience on a soggy Sunday afternoon at Unit 3 in Lostwithiel.”
“It was great fun, with lots of giggles, anticipation and a lovely Rehydration Station. The security were extremely secure and the island holiday was novel and very atmospheric”
“You were very gracious and lovely, and your dancing brought a tear to my eye. It reached a hidden part of me that I haven't quite fathomed yet.”
Bizarre…but good bizarre! Liked the queuing…relaxed into it.
curious creatures
Expect the unexpected
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Curious Creatures is an invitation to be part of something, be curious, make discoveries, try something new, be creative and celebrate!It was originally commissioned by the Welcome Back fund in 2022 to bring joy and people to the high street in Liskeard but the dancers have also been spotted in Truro, Bodmin, Lostwithiel Parade and Sterts, Upton Cross!
Let Curious Creatures brighten up your town festival, or celebration in 2023.
Curious Creatures performance
Bright, colourful, surprising and curious…a group of dancers arrive, to take in the sights and to dance! This is a playful promenade dance piece full of fun and energy. Travelling through towns, parks, or festivals in a playful promenade, inviting the audience to stop and dance with them, bringing fun and joy to any space the inhabit.Curious Creatures workshops
We can offer a package of community dance classes to bring local people into the performanceBookings and information lois@dancecentred.co.uk 07939 167526
Image credit to Hannah Timm Photography
FLYING MONKEYS
Fun, creative dance classes for children.