Trio-gether-mess
The Work Room
Sunday 8 June - The Work Room Studio
Workshop 2pm to 4pm
Tea & Chat 4pm - 4.30pm
TWR invites you to a movement workshop with Romany Dear, Juana del Mar, and Susanne Grau. This workshop is in connection with Romany’s current month-long, process-led, collaborative residency at Cove Park.
Romany Dear, Juana Del Mar, and Susanne Grau met (as a three) for the first time, in a creative process in “La 48”, in Bogotá, Colombia in 2019. Since then, they have continued to move and be-moved-by-each other across encounters + re-encounters of closeness + distance/s joined + fragmented across archives of voice notes, moveable horizons and deep diving into bottomless waters.
During the workshop, they will symbiotically share movement scores that draw from their different + mutual approaches to working with trios through somatic, improvisational performance practice/s. Susanne invites you into her work with artificial floors: opening up questions around support, participation and risk. Treating the gaze as a touch and the breath as a hand. Romany will propose “temporary lodgings” a practice inspired by the logics of companionship planting techniques + of getting “carried away”. Juana del Mar will share practices of the breath: a vital act of interdependence in which the breath serves as a material to move + to be moved, to sound + be sounded, and to relate with the other/s.
We invite you to arrive at the workshop with two others: whether friends, lovers, children or pals-to-be. Or / and we invite you to be curious about getting to know and work with two new people during the workshop.
- If you would like to book, please email hello@theworkroom.org.uk.
- This workshop is FREE for everyone.
- Please wear clothes that you feel comfortable to move in.
- We will provide water, tea + coffee in the space.
- Afterwards there will be 30 minutes to hang out / stay and chat on comfy seats.
- This workshop may involve some touch-based exercises. We will always use “check in” practices and nothing that we propose is obligatory - everything is an invitation. There will always be other “translations” or “alternative options” to the exercises. You're the experts of your own bodies - and we listen to and from our own body knowledge/s.
IMAGE: Trio-gether-mess, a collage made using a photo, taken by Felipe Leon in 2024, and background images taken from collective creative practices, assembled by Juana Del Mar, 2025
ACCESS
The Work Room is situated within Tramway which is a level access building, and you can read their access information here.
We aim for workshops to be accessible for all physicalities. If you’d like more details about this, or if there is anything else you’d like to talk about that would make attending easier and more enjoyable for you, please email hello@theworkroom.org.uk
ARTIST BIO’S
Juana del Mar, was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and currently lives in Berlin. She grounds her artistic practice, research, and pedagogy in dance and performance, exploring the body, its tensions, and its complexities as singular and collective experiences in relation to context and encounter with others. Her projects often unfold in collaboration with artists from diverse backgrounds, engaging transdisciplinary methods to question established forms of relation, perception, and authorship. She is co-director of the collective La Compañía, co-founder member of the Colombian dance group Maldita Danza, and dancer and choreographer from Ati-erra, Dance and Multimedia Laboratory. She has participated in various international projects and performances, including festivals, residencies, and internships in Croatia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Panama, Cuba, Brazil, Costa Rica, India, Nepal, and Senegal. Since 2013, she has taught dance and performance in both formal and informal settings for children and adults, including at CENDA University’s BA Dance program in Colombia. Juana holds a Laureate Distinction from the Interdisciplinary MA in Live Arts and Theatre at the National University of Colombia (2023) and was a DAAD scholar in the MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA) at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK).
Romany Dear, born in the North of the UK, under a gemini sun, is an interdisciplinary body-based artist. Romany defines her practice as a spilling, an overflow-ing/s of words, gestures and actions that encompass speculative and critical performance practice/s, somatic-erotic touching/s, movement research, facilitation, access-led organising and experimental writing/s. Romany has performed and worked internationally with: Germinal (Bolivia) The Judson Church & The Movement Research Centre (NYC), Organizmo, La Casa de Meria, La Compañía, Con Cuerpos & Mapa Teatro (Colombia), Encuentros (Brazil), Siobhan Davies Studies & The Swiss Church (London), XOXO Curatorial Projects & The Volksbuhne Theatre (Berlin). Romany is one of the founders of Glasgow Open Dance School (2021) working with Arika, The CCA, and The WorkRoom, DCA & Market Gallery (Scotland). Romany has an MA in Interdisciplinary Live Arts, Crip Theories and Feminist Cartographies from the National University of Bogota, Colombia. (2021) and is currently working as co-director of the new temporary masters program, Monstrous Futurities at Sandberg Institution, Amsterdam.
Susanne Grau (*1988, Germany) works as a dancer, choreographer and Rolfing practitioner based in Berlin. Across projects, she explores relationships of language, physicality, imagination and rhythm. She likes to see performative practice as a facilitation of encounters, as a kind of seance and psychomagical field of experimentation. She studied Contemporary Dance at University for Music and Dance in Cologne, the MA program „Performing arts practice and visual culture“ organized by Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the MA “New Performative Practices” at University of the Arts in Stockholm. In 2015 she received the danceWEB scholarship at ImpulsTanz Festival Vienna. As a performer she worked with artists like Fabrice Mazliah, Alexandra Pirici, Rocio Marano, Davis Freeman, Juana del Mar, Özlem Alkis, Choy Ka Fai, Prue Lang, May Zarhy, Reut Shemesh. With the support of Seitenwechsel e.V. she is organising and teaching regular dance classes for children and teenagers living in refugee centers in Berlin. Since 2024 Susanne is a member of considering network, a group of artists with a bodywork practice interested in the intersection of choreography and bodywork and the politics of touch.