CREATE CPD WORKSHOP: ARTS AND DISABILITY WITH HEIDI LATSKY

• Venue: Samuel Beckett Dance Studio, Trinity College
• Dates: Saturday May 15/Sunday May 16
• Time: May 15: 8pm (GIMP performance), May 16: 1pm-4pm (workshop)
• Tickets: €30 - Combined ticket (GIMP performance & workshop)

Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts in partnership with Dublin Dance Festival present a

Continuing Professional Development workshop

Arts and Disability with Heidi Latsky

This workshop is designed for artists across all art forms who are looking to improve their skills and understanding of working collaboratively with people with disabilities.

Drawing from her 20 years of teaching experience with actors and dancers as well as her last three years working with people with disabilities, Heidi Latsky, Choreographer and Artistic Director of Heidi Latsky Dance and The GIMP Project, will share with workshop participants some of the choreographic processes and philosophies she has cultivated over the years. She will be joined by GIMP cast member Catherine Long who is a trained Art Therapist. Participants will have a hands-on experience of The Latsky Method (Latsky’s body practice designed to help the participant feel more alive and calm at the same time) and Latsky’s methods of choreographing.

It is not necessary to have experience of choreography to participate in this workshop.

Participants will attend the performance of Heidi Latsky’s GIMP at 8pm on Saturday May 15 at Project Arts Centre prior to attending the workshop at 1pm on Sunday May 16 at the Samuel Beckett Dance Studio. (Please call the Dublin Dance Festival Box Office on 01 672 8815 if you are unable to attend the performance on Saturday May 15 but still wish to attend the workshop. DDF recommends attending the performance on Saturday May 15, prior to the workshop.)

There will be time allotted for discussion.

Please note places are limited for the workshop.

Biographies
Heidi Latsky (Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer, Heidi Latsky Dance, and GIMP). Originally from Montreal, she first received recognition as a celebrated principal dancer for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (1987-1993). Since then she has been a choreographer for stage, theatre and film.  Latsky has a BA in Psychology with Honours from Carleton University (1979). Other awards include the Scripps/ADF Primus-Tamaris Fellowship for Choreography and the McGinnis Lectureship Award from Point Park College. In 1996, she was chosen to represent Canada at the Suzanne Dellal International Dance Competition in Tel Aviv and at Danse a Lille, France. Latsky has toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe with her own company and as part of Goldhuber &  Latsky (with former partner Lawrence Goldhuber).  Her choreography has been commissioned by the Cannes International Dance Festival, The American Dance Festival, Danspace Project, Whitney Museum of Art, The Joyce Theatre and other prestigious venues. Residencies include The American Dance Festival, Beloit College, Skidmore College, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Milwaukee, Connecticut College and Purdue University. Latsky headed the Movement Department at The School for Film and Television from 1998-2005 where she developed her teaching practice -The Latsky Method. She serves on the Artist Advisory Board of Danspace Project and was recently chosen by Creative Capital Foundation as one of four choreographers nationally to receive an award for her innovative work.

Catherine Long (Performer) is a British Performance Artist from London. Central to her work is the individual and collective body, the subjective and objective experience with a focus on observation and perception. Her work explores and addresses issues of objectification, absence and presence, restriction and freedom, control, embodiment and symmetry. A key aim of her work is for people to gain insight into how perceptions of ourselves are shaped by our perceptions of others. Recent performances include Tate Modern, London (2007), Chisenhale Dance Space, London (2006), NottDance (2004), Community/Performance Conference in Rhode Island (2004), and Jerwood Space (2004). Catherine has been working with Heidi Latsky Dance in GIMP since April 2008. She has a BA (Honours) in Arts Therapies and is an artist in residence at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience in London.

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