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Making Connections is a monthly free drop in event for Swindon and Southwest creatives that offers a held space for arts professionals and community artists to be together. Each session will have a practical component (2-hour workshop led by a guest artist), which will be followed by a networking/informal meet facilitated by the Making Connections team. The Making Connections team are Adrienne Hart (Artistic Director, Neon Dance) and Sarah Ferris (Swindon based dance artist and teacher).
“Adrienne and I spoke about a desire for a space to improvise, be creative with others, to bring regional based creatives together for personal and professional development, to feel embedded within a community and to be inspired.”
Where: Swindon Dance
When: Monthly 1.30pm - 4.30pm until June 2025. See our Neon Dance Events page for more details.
In this session, Laïla Diallo will lead a 2-hour improvisation workshop and this will be followed by a networking/informal meet facilitated by the Making Connections team.
Session description: Through guided improvisations and tasks, the session will offer us a chance to tune in and out: tuning in to the body and to the feeling of things, and out towards one another and the space we share. We will work independently and in groups, sometimes in proximity and with touch. All are welcome who wish to connect with their dancing.
Laïla is a Canadian-born, Bristol-based performer and choreographer/movement director working across live dance performance, theatre and opera. Visit lailadiallo.com.
NB: we appreciate that it can be challenging to find a spare three hours each month and would therefore welcome anyone who can commit to the workshop but not the networking (or vice versa). It is our intention to work with and curate an offer for local creatives and we hope to grow and adapt this initiative with those who take part.
Please complete the form to register.
Be sure to let us know which Making Connections session/s you wish to attend.