Open Class: Bea Bidault and Max Revell

Our class aims to bring participants to discover a nuanced and strong sense of identity in their performance through our creative practice. Our movement vocabulary is rooted in popping, contemporary dance and physical theatre. We will offer ways to explore the convergence of these different ways of moving. The class will flow from exploring set movement, how to come in and out of the floor, specific illusionary drills and improvisation scores. We will offer participants tools to expand movement pathways and enhance their awareness. Allowing for a full-body exploration of targeted aspects, we will centre the focus on isolations, sequential movements, our relation with gravity, and how to activate or diminish movement to find textures and dynamics such as suspensions, accelerations, freezes, and imagined external forces that shape and interrupt us.