Gentle Dancing Practices that Promote Well-being, Resilience and Healing in Challenging Times.

Scottish Dance Theatre invites you to join a free movement workshop with acclaimed dance practitioners Charlie Brittain and Kirstie Simson.

In honouring our body’s innate attraction and drive towards wholeness, balance, creativity & healing, we will explore embodied intelligence and imagination utilising what we call ‘gentle dancing practices’ that emerge from the radical softness of the heart-space.

These reflective practices support us in witnessing the transformation and joy that is realised through the challenging simplicity of experiencing our bodies in motion.

Over the course of the workshop, we will journey through shared dancing, scored movement explorations, and space for group processing-affirming the poignancy of our human connectedness, and its implications for health and resilience in facing the universal and personal challenges of our lives today.

Kirstie and Charlie’s ever-evolving collaboration is centred on their shared passion and dedication for dance and healing, which manifests through teaching, performing, and co-creating. It emerges from the grounding of care gleaned from their collective experience: 45 years of dedicated dance improvisation practice, professional performing careers, bodywork and holistic healing practices, pre-hospital emergency care and passionate, dedicated teaching practices. Their work expands as it is shared internationally and in the diverse contexts of dance, healthcare and life.

*This is an open-level workshop offering valuable information for dancers, movement practitioners, and health professionals, including those with little or no experience.

Workshop timetable 

11:00 – 13:30 Working session 1

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 17:00 Working session 2