Our annual offer to join SDS Co-Artistic Director Annie Pui Ling Lok in the studio returns.
This year Annie invites you to go on a personal journey into your practice while sharing space and processes with others. Taking as a starting point Annie’s own questions around:
- What desires related to my practice do I want to give time to (but have had little opportunity to)?
- What habits or processes do I want to examine, strengthen or get rid of?
- What is my practice, and do I even have one at the moment/anymore?
Bring an openness to share, to be kind and courageous for yourself and others and a willingness to see and be seen. Bring your doubts or certainties around your current/past/future practice: ‘I don’t know if I want to/can’; ‘I know I definitely want to/don’t want to’ etc...
The workshop will combine elements of Annie’s work – performance, choreography, contact improvisation, and biodynamic craniosacral therapy.
This workshop is for dance artists and practitioners whose work centres movement and the body.
In the Roof Studio
Weekend Tickets
General: £120
Bursary: £100
Pay-it-forward: £140
Day Tickets
General: £60
Bursary: £50
Pay-it-forward: £70
WOrkshop Structure
Each day will be split into two sessions:
Move/dance: Annie will provide invitations to support you to arrive in your body and enter in deep conversation with your dancing by observing physical sensations and noticing choice, agency, and desire as we move. Consensual touch is also invited.
Make/research/play: Whether you feel deeply immersed in or deeply out of touch with your practice, this part of the day brings your research into co-working and collaboration with others. Annie will provide light but clear frames to explore and dig into personal research questions, doubts and certainties.
There will be a 45 min lunch break.
previous feedback
‘’ I found that through the engagement with the scores Annie gave us I felt energised and could engage with the movement score for 2 hours without even realising it… I’m in love with the availability that my body achieves after a session of Annie’s work. She’s the best!”
“It’s my second December workshop with Annie and I find them really important landmarks at the year’s end, to refill after a year of working and output as an artist. A chance to have something just for me. It’s literally one of a few things that keeps me from burning out as an artist/human. More please.”
ABOUT ANNIE
Annie Lok has been a freelance dance artist since 1999, and qualified as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist (BCST) in 2014. She makes live performance works through experimental and collaborative processes. She has choreographed and co-directed over 40 works in the UK and abroad with professional and non-professional performers. Teaching and facilitation are key parts of her practice and she has taught in many community, professional and Higher Education settings. In 2021 Annie became one of the first leaders of colour to direct a dance organisation as Co-Artistic Director and Joint CEO of Siobhan Davies Studios (SDS) alongside independent producer Kat Bridge. Outside of SDS, Annie continues to freelance and parent her 6-year-old daughter.
ACCESS AND AMENITIES AT SDS
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.