Teaching Strand
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6-Month Programme led online for current and aspiring Teachers who want to develop and strengthen their teaching style and content.
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Understanding your way of moving and how to transfer onto different movers
Design of your own class structure
Planning and execution strategies for your classes to tailor to all levels
A teaching language formulated to be most suitable and most natural for you
Guidance of how to continue to improve upon your teaching after this programme
Understanding of how you want to present yourself as the teacher you want to be
Opportunity to teach your own class to other members of this programme
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In order for an application to be considered, the artist must:
Be a contemporary dance artist developing work on their own body
Have at least 3 years of dance training experience
Have ideas of the age / level of the group / ability of participants they want to teach
There is no age limit; We are very interested to hear from different generations of artists.
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Fees: £500 - Option to pay in full, in 2 instalments of £125, or 5 instalments of £100.
Physically
We will track your movement progression and stylistic growth. You will have access to weekly pre-recorded classes and will have a check-in with Alleyne Dance halfway through the training to talk about how the sessions went and any questions you have to help for your last half of the programme.
We will work on:
Isolations of the body, focusing on where movement begins & how the body responds
Hands focusing on how the hands create texture, imagery & memory in movements
Spirals focusing on distorting the body, exploring momentum & fluidity in movement
Breath focusing on texture of movement & allowing the breath to initiate movement; exploring moments of more effort & moments to do less; acknowledging when to release & do less
Undulation focusing on qualities, finding a groove in movement; exploring how the physicality can create an emotion
The Programme
The Teaching / Creating your own workshop strand is a 6-month programme with monthly one-to-one sessions with Alleyne Dance.
Our introduction meeting together will outline the programme and get to know one another as artists. We want to hear a bit of your journey of how you got into teaching / what inspires you to teach and how you want to continue to grow as a teacher.
Artistically
We will discuss and workshop your movement style and how you want to transfer your movement to other bodies in our monthly one-to-one sessions. How you translate your movement into words, imagery, stories and rhythmic patterns will be a part of creating a mutual language for you and your participants to understand. One of the key elements we aim to highlight will be what you want your participants to gain from your classes and how you plan to achieve that.
Throughout these sessions we also want you to note your strengths and weaknesses, and together we will talk through how to continue to improve them as your teaching career progresses. Elements we will look into to support your teaching journey:
Teachers and / or workshops that stand out to you
Description of your movement and performance style
Improvisation, and how you transfer your improv to other bodies
Leading improvisational tasks for yourself and in a class
Creating phrases and how to break them down to execute them in a class
Your movement in relationship to music and choices of music
Different ways of learning e.g., visual, descriptive, storytelling, rhythm patterns, music, physical placement