Ways of Being Workshop
The Work Room
Award winning choreographer, Roberta Jean will premiere Ways of Being on Tramways main stage, this September. A cosmic adventure and love letter to those who have experienced depression and struggled with suicidal thoughts. Informed by historic therapeutic practices and future healing modalities, the work is a tender and euphoric dance full of hope.
Roberta Jean and Katye Coe will facilitate a dance workshop based around their process of developing the performance work.
Katye Coe is a dancer and activist, and a trained somatic experiencing practitioner. Her work as a performer spans over 20 years of international performance practice and as a dancer she collaborates currently with Joe Moran, Florence Peake, Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, Keira Greene, Charlie Morrissey, Stefan Jovanović, Matthias Sperling and Carolyn Deby (Sirens Crossing).
Roberta Jean is a critically acclaimed choreographer. She works collaboratively with artists and makers from across disciplines to produce dances for a diverse range of contexts. Her choreography is centred around poetics and is often underpinned by anthropological research.
Her work and life has been shaped by her experience of a neuroendocrine disease called Pre Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder that impacts mental health.
This is an open level workshop open to both professional and non professional dancers.
This workshop will be movement based, so please wear comfortable clothing, bring socks and extra layers to keep warm.
Content notes: Discussion of themes of depression, trauma, suicide and drug use.
BOOK HERE - Though workshops places are free, they have a real and tangible value. These places have been subsidised to remove barriers to participation. If you are unable to attend let us know in good time so your place can be allocated to another.
About the workshop leaders
Katye Coe is a dancer and activist, and a trained somatic experiencing practitioner.
Roberta Jean is an artist whose work and life has been shaped by her experience of a neuroendocrine disease called Pre Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder that impacts mental health.
A Sadler’s Wells Commission. Supported by Creative Scotland, FABRIC, Tramway, Dance Base, Déda and Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund.
Image: Katye Coe & Stephanie McMannn, photo by Hollie Miller