Workshop ‘In Contact: The Actor's Expressive Body’

In Contact: The Actor's Expressive Body.

A workshop that explores the expressive capacity of the actor's body and activates the imagination in order to create new possibilities for movement in the context of individual and group work. Informed by practices such as Laban and Contact Improvisation, it focuses initially on investigating categories of action, perception of time and space, and through explorations of contact and improvisation, it develops the actor's practice and permeability in relation to the other.

Ana Beatriz Meireles, specialising in Movement Direction and teaching, her work encompasses professional, educational and community projects in Portugal and the UK. In the last decade she has worked as a dancer with companies such as Renaud Wiser Dance Company, Cascade Dance Theatre and organisations such as the Young Vic and the National Theatre in the UK. She co-founded the artistic collective KWAM, and has extensive experience as a member of creative teams in theatre, film and large-scale events. In the teaching field, she has worked as a movement teacher in a conservatoire and as a contemporary dance teacher with the Rambert company. She is a graduate of the London Studio Centre (UAL) and completed the MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.