Professional Contemporary Class in Glasgow - Summer Term 2023
Professional Level Class in Glasgow
Pro Class with Aya Kobayashi | Thursday & Fridays
The Work Room & Barrowland Ballet co-run weekly classes for the professional dance community in Glasgow on Thursday & Friday mornings.
Class is led by Aya Kobayashi with occasional guest teachers. Started in 2018 in response to the lack of professional-level contemporary classes in the city,  Pro Class provides a space for independent dance artists to come together to dance and sustain practice.  Our aim is for these classes to be accessible to a wide range of physicalities.
During the summer 2023 term, we will continue the classes on aPay-What-You-Can sliding scale from £0 > £5. While we remain keen for these classes to be an accessible resource supporting the professional dance community in Glasgow, the long-term sustainability of these is not possible without generating income to towards the cost of running these. Please do book in advance and we encourage you to consider what you are able to contribute financially to make these classes possible.
Classes should be booked in advance via the Brown Paper Tickets links below. Tickets for Summer Term 2023 will be available in three blocks.
A different approach is taken to the classes on Thursdays & Fridays:
THURSDAYS | 9.30 - 10.45am
The class includes both set materials and improvisations to train the clarity and embodiment through release based technique. We start with gentle way-in to our moving body, often focus on breath and energy paths to find attentiveness. With a few simple repetitive exercises we will try to find a deeper understanding of gravity, alignments and skeletal connections. The class is designed to develop your stamina and strength as we will move through with full bodied engagement and articulation. Some phrases are repeated over a few weeks to explore familiar and unfamiliar coordination of movement vocabulary.
FRIDAYS | 9.30am-10.45am
The class starts with giving space to breathe, land or ponder then offering some images or small questions to navigate an explorative journey. Using various imageries, somatic exercises, or looking at other species or other art forms as hints or metaphors, we explore the anatomical potential and find the connections in things we live with. We will enrich our embodiment and feed into your practice. The class welcomes all movers. Aya cares about the journey of each class and within the inclusive facilitation, will move with openness and playfulness to cultivate the moving body together.
Professional Contemporary Class SUMMER TIMETABLE 2023
BLOCK 2 | 4 May - 02 June | THURSDAY GUEST ARTISTS: PENNY CHIVAS, SOLÈNE WEINACHTER & KIRSTEN WALKER at St Ninian’s Church, Albert Drive
BLOCK 2 | 4 May - 02 June | FRIDAY GUEST ARTISTS: KIRSTY ALEXANDER, SOLÈNE WEINACHTER & JO YOUNG at Kinning Park Complex
BLOCK 3 | 8 - 30 June | AYA KOBAYASHI at St Ninians (THURSDAY) and Kinning Park Complex (FRIDAY)
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BLOCK 3 NOW:
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ACCESS
Our aim is for classes to be accessible for all physicalities. If you’d like more detail about each venues access information or, if there’s anything else you’d like to talk about that would make attending easier and more enjoyable for you, please email hello@theworkroom.org.uk. We will endeavour to support you to fully participate or provide you with further information to help you decide if these classes are suitable for you.