Join DANE for our latest class and community evening in PA 201. Class will be led by Billy Keen.
Billy is a dance artist based in Sunderland and is currently a company dancer for Southpaw Company. He began his training in commercial, hip hop, and other social styles, developing a strong foundation in rhythm, musicality, and freestyle practice. Billy later trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, where he honed his technique and expanded his movement language, helping develop his improvisation practice. His work takes influence from hip hop and social styles to inform elements of contemporary improvisation, drawing on groove, spontaneity, and control to create physical dialogue in performance.
The session will be focused on guided improvisation working with weight, breath and control. Starting with the mechanics of moving weight through the space and progressing into an exploration of how controlling weight and intention with breath can create texture, character and a large movement vocabulary to draw from within improvisation.
Newcastle College - PA 201
Wednesday 22nd April - 6 - 7.30pm
Join DANE for our latest class and community evening in PA 201. Class will be led by Billy Keen.
Billy is a dance artist based in Sunderland and is currently a company dancer for Southpaw Company. He began his training in commercial, hip hop, and other social styles, developing a strong foundation in rhythm, musicality, and freestyle practice. Billy later trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, where he honed his technique and expanded his movement language, helping develop his improvisation practice. His work takes influence from hip hop and social styles to inform elements of contemporary improvisation, drawing on groove, spontaneity, and control to create physical dialogue in performance.
The session will be focused on guided improvisation working with weight, breath and control. Starting with the mechanics of moving weight through the space and progressing into an exploration of how controlling weight and intention with breath can create texture, character and a large movement vocabulary to draw from within improvisation.
Newcastle College - PA 201
Wednesday 22nd April - 6 - 7.30pm
