'Reiterative Power' Choreography Workshop with Joe Moran
The Work Room studio
Reiterative Power - Choreography Workshop with Joe Moran
Saturday 13 September 2025, 10.30 am-5 pm | The Work Room
SOLD OUT
While he is in Scotland working with Scottish Dance Theatre, The Work Room are pleased to invite choreographer and artist Joe Moran to Glasgow, to lead a day-long experiential workshop on choreographic practice in The Work Room studio this September.
ABOUT
Arising from current research, this welcoming and practical workshop will begin with a more formal focus exploring two distinct choreographic approaches: perceptual practice as choreography (what we think, apprehend or practice perceptually when moving, and its direction, as a mode of choreography) and choreographic making using various frames and structures (such as scores, actions or instructions). We will go on to explore how these approaches may co-mingle and come together towards performance, drawing upon a framework of discovered-in-the moment choice making. We will also take time to reflect upon these approaches, their aesthetic, critical and political implications, what they mean to us and to others, and how we may wish to use them or not.
Joe’s approach to ‘perceptual practice’ is deeply informed by the work of American choreographer Deborah Hay. He will also draw upon an abiding interest in the interplay and distinctions between the practice of improvisation and the choreographic where, to quote Deborah Hay, ‘the movement may change but the choreography itself does not change’.
The ethos of the day will be relaxed, respectful and collegial, involving being lead, testing ideas and working collaboratively.
BOOKING
This is a professional-level workshop open to TWR members and non-members.
This workshop is supported by TWR's Arts Practice programme. Tickets are sliding scale, based on individual circumstances and are booked via Ticket Lab.
GUIDE TO SLIDING SCALE TICKET PRICING
Tickets £12 | £9 | £6
We would suggest:
- If you have had limited opportunity to earn recently or are currently in receipt of benefits, you can attend this workshop for £6
- If you have had some regular income recently, and/ or you currently have some work coming up, please consider paying £9
- If your income is stable, perhaps through some salaried or regular contract work, and you know you have work coming up, please consider paying full price £12
We work on trust and no one will be asked to prove or justify their circumstance.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you're experiencing a period of financial hardship and the lowest cost would still be a barrier to attending, please email sara@theworkroom.org.uk.
ACCESS
The Work Room studio is on the first floor of Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE, and can be accessed by lift or stairs.
There is level access to the studio from the street. The Work Room has two gender-neutral wheelchair-accessible toilets, a kitchen with tea and coffee making facilities and a range of seating options (including chairs with and without arms, a comfy sofa, bean bags and ergonomic height-adjustable desk chairs).
BIO
Joe Moran (he/him) is a British-Irish artist and choreographer with a wide-ranging practice incorporating performance, film and choreographic drawing, alongside advocacy, curation, critical writing and participatory projects. His work centres the body and embodied presence as a site of complex subjectivities and political unrest with queering frequently deployed as its principal critical strategy. Joe’s work is informed by a background in improvisation and experimentation, and a fascination with the problems and opportunities of formal choreographic composition and notions of expanded choreography. He works widely in galleries and visual art contexts, as well as making works for the stage and film, toured
extensively in the UK and internationally. Many of the ethoses and inquiries embedded in Joe’s work are informed by his experiences of queerness and his Irish immigrant working-class background.
Recent projects include live performances of his work Materiality Will Be Rethought at Institut del Teatre, Barcelona (2024) and Le Musée Transitoire, Paris (2023), the exhibition Its contours, Its movements, part of Fest en Fest festival of expanded choreography (2022), the film Materiality Will Be Rethought (Whitechapel Gallery commission, 2020) presented at Rencontres Internationales, Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Wel, Berlin and Mexico City International Video Dance Festival, where it was awarded the Best Choreography Prize (2022), and Arrangement at Tanzfestival Winterthur (2022), Tanzhaus NRW, Dusseldorf (Tanzmesse 2022), Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Munich (2022) and Sadler’s Wells (2019).
Joe is Founding Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation through which his performance and curatorial work is produced; this involves organising and advocacy that centres independent artists and collective action for systemic change. As a dancer, Joe has worked internationally with choreographers Deborah Hay (USA), Florence Peake (UK), Siobhan Davies (UK, Bank project), Gaby Agis (UK), Pontus Pettersson (Sweden), Kate Brown (UK), Christopher House (Canada) and Stina Nyberg (Sweden) amongst others. His adaptation of Deborah Hay’s solo At Once, and lecture-performance on the work, toured widely in the UK and internationally.