Creating Movement: A Studio Lab
This new practical six-week evening course offers a deeper exploration of how movement is made. Through improvisation, image and text, you'll generate physical material and shape it into short performance studies using rhythm, weight, space and relationship.
Key information:
- Course dates:
- Tuesday evenings, 19 Jan – 23 Feb 2027
- Course times:
- 7pm–9pm
- Age:
- 18+
- Art form:
- Drama
- Fees:
- £295
- Deadline:
- Bookings will close at 5pm on Friday 15 January 2027 or when the course reaches full capacity
- Level of study:
- Short Courses & Summer Schools (ages 18+)
- Mode of study:
- In-person
- Venue:
- Guildhall School of Music & Drama
- When:
- Evening Courses | Spring Courses (January–March)
Course info
Public booking opens at 11am, Monday 26 October. Join our mailing list before Friday 23 October to receive priority booking.
Ages 18+
Course Dates & Times
Tuesday evenings on 19, 26 January, 2, 9, 16, 23 February 2027
7pm – 9pm
About Creating Movement: A Studio Lab
This new practical six-week evening course offers a deeper exploration of how movement is made. Through improvisation, image and text, you'll generate physical material and shape it into short performance studies using rhythm, weight, space and relationship.
Working individually, in pairs and as an ensemble, you'll develop your own movement ideas while exploring the studio as a laboratory: a place to experiment, break habits, test new possibilities and refine your compositional choices.
What can I expect?
Expect to move, and to make! Each session combines physical preparation, improvisation and creative composition tasks designed to inspire new movement. You'll build and share work in progress throughout the course, with opportunities for reflection, feedback and discussion.
Who is the course for?
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Actors, dancers, directors, movement directors and teachers with an existing movement practice
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Practitioners who make or devise their own work, or want to begin
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Anyone aged 18 and over who fits the above
Do I need anything for the course?
- Comfortable clothing
- Thick socks (but you will also work barefoot)
- Change of t-shirt
- Notebook and pen
Course fee
£295
Public booking opens at 11am, Monday 26 October. Join our mailing list before Friday 23 October to receive priority booking.
Eligibility
- We welcome participants from all ages 18 and over
- Participants must have sufficient English language skills in order to fully engage with the course
About the Course Tutor
The course is taught by Anna Alvarez.
Anna is a movement director, choreographer, dancer and educator. She works across theatre, dance, opera and film. She creates sensory, visually arresting work in a creative and supportive environment.
Her theatre credits include: Brixton House, Hampstead Theatre, Sadlers Wells, Garsington Opera, Southbank Centre, The Arcola, The Dome (Brighton), The Place, The Young Vic and London Fashion Week.
She collaborates regularly with Fashion label Anciela and Siobhan Davies Dance. Anna also works with choirs and orchestras, exploring heightened and alternative ways of experiencing and performing music.
Anna is a movement and dance tutor at Guildhall School of Music & Drama and founder of Anna Alvarez Compañia, a dance theatre company that explores storytelling through movement, mixing ideas from dance, theatre, music and illustration through the lens of the Latinx diaspora.
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