Bespoke Movement Workshops

I collaborate with organisations and groups to create bespoke movement workshops around specific themes or aims of learning.

If you are interested in having a chat about developing a workshop for you and your group, don’t hesitate to contact me on jan.lee.uk@gmail.com

Here are some workshops I have recently co-created below.

Movement Performing Skills for Actors (for Hijinx Theatre)

Workshops to develop skills for adult actors with learning disabilities, neurodivergence or autism. Through solo and group exploration, actors learn to collaborate with each other in movement and visceral performing ways, where they can both listen to each other, while also be bold in their choices of expression. They are learning in these sessions many ways to connect to each other; in weight, timing, feeling, intention, and the joy of sharing this with other actors. I want them to feel confident to explore unknown sensations in their body space, and feel seen in this process, which I hope can support their enjoyment of performing even more. Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales

Dawn Awakening (as part of Moi Tran’s S L E E P)

A somatic movement workshop to guide the audience through this particular time when the light begins to dawn; without forgetting the darker light that frames it. As part of the artwork by Moi Tran: S L E E P frames the resting and vulnerable body in public space as an event of withdrawal, resistance and refusal. This iteration marked 50 years since the end of the brutal war in Vietnam. Toynbee Studios, Artsadmin, London (Photo Credit: Devika Bilimoria)

Women of the World Circle (for Diverse Artists Network)

I co-led a programme of activities that supported embodied connection for this monthly women’s circle, with Cecilia Bruzzone & Diverse Artists Network, inviting all women to join; encouraging diversity in background, ages and cultures to come together, to empower them to share and lead creative activities and socialise together. Various venues in Bristol

Body As Home: Leadership (for university students)
co-created with Ania Varez

Explore, through embodied explorations, what leadership can mean? What qualities within your sense of leadership, explored through tactile and spatial relationships, are meaningful to you?  Oxford University

A Gentle Practice of Joy (for university students)
co-created with TIM LYTC

Practice gentle and joyful ways to tune into your physical senses, to process and digest any intellectual discussions of your day. Play with offering gestures to each other, with each other, as a collective body. Oxford University

SOAK Lab (part of SOAK Live Art)

During this workshop we will relate to the theme of water, or bodies of water. The studio will be a few minutes walk from Drakes Reservoir, which brought Dartmoor water to the city between the mid 1800s – 1970s. We will transition between moving, writing, speaking, witnessing (or being in company with) as exchanges of information, maps and doors back into the practice that we are building for ourselves/together. We will explore how this might translate into something that we can share and repeat, becoming perhaps, a rehearsal, ritual or performance. Plymouth

Sensing Body
co-created with Laura Moy

Watch our video on the right : turn on speakers to hear our voices!  Albany Centre

Uses of Anger (for people of global majority)
co-created with Omikemi

Anger, like other emotions, offers vital information about what is important to us and can be a potent force for the changes we want to create. CCA, Glasgow

Bodywork into Dancing
co-created with Jayne Peake

Exploring with one partner the details of the quality of touch, reaching into and through each other’s spaces to provide the foundation for trust and listening. Bristol venues

Somatics of Sound

Organising our body to be open to vibrations as it contacts another surface, like a plant, or the air of a forest; a space where both listening and expressing might merge into each other. Emerging Hearts camp

Artists’ Home Lab

Facilitating a making space for a group of artists to own more of their process and share it with more satisfaction. A basic element of the lab is facilitating a return to an innate perceptive ability to feel oneself and others without filters. Artist’s homes, London