A weekend workshop with SDS’s Co-Artistic Director Annie Pui Ling Lok.

Our annual offer to join our Artistic Director Annie Pui Ling Lok in the studio returns. In previous years the workshops have focused on the following: ‘Why dance?’ ‘How do I create?’ and ‘How do I want to dance in contact now?’ 

This workshop takes Annie’s experience of navigating permission and expectation in her dancing as a starting point: whether alone or with others, in response to her body changing, and with a renewed urgency to ask “what is OK?”

This year’s weekend workshop explores questions: 

• What is it like to dance with an injured/ageing/____ body (mine or my partner’s)? 
• What does enthusiastic consent feel/look like in solo and contact dancing for me? 
• How do I give and receive clear and honest no’s and enough’s and not feel bad about it? 

We will use this weekend to exercise shared responsibility in the studio by looking at evolving clarity, honesty and respect for ourselves and others in dancing. We will give space to play with what pushing and challenging ourselves positively is and feels like for each of us.

Each day gives time to prepare bodies and minds through: 

• Solo time
• Rest
• Duet and group scores   

The workshop will combine elements of Annie’s work – performance, choreography, contact improvisation, and biodynamic craniosacral therapy. Guided work in tuning proprioception, observing physical sensations and use of anatomical and physiological information, will lead us into noticing choice, agency, and desire.  

Suitable for professional dancers and those with experience in dance improvisation and working in respectful contact/partnership with others.

In the Roof Studio

Weekend Tickets 

General: £120
Bursary: £100
Pay-it-forward: £140

Day Tickets

General: £60
Bursary: £50
Pay-it-forward: £70

Siobhan Davies Studios is mostly accessible, with lifts to all floors. There are two accessible parking spaces available on site which can be booked in advance. Blue Badge parking is also available nearby on West Square and Garden Row (for a full map visit the Southwark Council website). Our main door is power assisted.

Amenities include: 

• Changing facilities* 
• Communal showers* 
• Toilets / wheelchair accessible toilets 
• Kitchen: tea and coffee making, fridge, and microwave
• Snack Bar: We have a small selection of bars, drinks and food available to buy from the front desk.
• Shops: The closest shop is Superway Supermarket on Garden Row (4 min walk), the closest supermarket is Sainsbury’s on New Kent Road (7 min walk). We also recommend the Art Cafe which serves sandwiches, jacket potatoes and meals (3 min walk).

* Our changing facilities and showers are not fully accessible. Our closest publicly available and fully accessible changing facility is at The Castle Centre, a leisure centre 0.3 miles away from the studios. You can find full details of their features here.