WORKSHOPS & COACHINGI teach dance and movement in a range of contexts, drawing on different techniques and disciplines I studied and practised over the years: ballet, modern jazz, contemporary, somatics, Laban, butoh, yoga, improvisation. My eclectic background feeds my unique methodology, allowing me to tailor my approach.
I taught contemporary technique classes for 10 years at all levels, at Danceworks, Pineapple, Urdang Academy, The Place, Movingartsbase and Margaret Howard Theatre College. Today, I lead workshops and intensives for dance and performing arts courses, institutions and professional groups. These recently included The Place/London Contemporary Dance School's Centre For Advanced Training, Swindon Dance's Centre for Advanced Training, and SIB Dance Lab. I also provide private coaching. Workshops can involve:
Intensives and residencies provide more time together for:
My pedagody promotes clarity and discipline alongside a playful, experimental attitude. I encourage authenticity and bravery, deep awareness and individuality of expression. In working with James you were able to engender his confidence by asking him to demonstrate moves which he felt comfortable with. When refining choreography, you asked questions which made him consider how his body moved to its best advantage. You spoke to him as an equal, in a calm and encouraging manner and always took his ideas and preferences into account, ensuring therefore that he had ownership of the work. |
EMBODIED PRACTICE
These workshops provide participants with embodied knowledge of a key type of creativity based on exploration conducted through the body and the senses rather than the brain. The sessions enable participants to connect to their body as a tool for knowledge, authenticity, creation and problem-solving, using a physical and improvisational framework influenced by various somatic techniques.
The approach is relevant to all creatives such as musicians and designers, not just dancers. Participants acquire research and devising strategies that can be further applied to their work, whatever the medium or art form. My unique methodology was developed over 12 years, and can be adapted to various groups and formats, from an intensive few days to a short course. I work closely with the MA Scenography programme at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama since 2014, delivering intensives that help designers and performance makers acquire practical skills in real scale creative development which they can subsequently utilise when working with performers. RCSSD also commissions me choreographies for BA Design students to develop new designs for. I accompany the students through production meeting-tutorials as they learn about process and collaboration.
Other bespoke groups I have delivered these workshops to include Leo Cosendai's sound healing course and SIB Dance Lab in Norway.
"Scarlett Perdereau has been a formidable collaborator in her continuous willingness to keep developing these workshops over the years based on changing material conditions as well as feedback from students and staff. These workshops...remain a profound influence on the students' practice throughout the rest of the course and in their professional career thereafter." - Dr Simon Donger, Course Leader MA/MFA Scenography, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. "Scarlett's workshops have been immensely valuable for my trainees. I admire her approach and her novel perspective on internal and external movement." - Leo Cosendai, Creative Director & Sound Facilitator, Founder of Third Ear. In 2019, I set up the Forum on Embodied Practice, an opportunity for peer exchange, research and growth in the field of embodied practice, welcoming a range of practitioners and artists to participate and lead sessions in turn. The Forum collaborated with SIB Dance Lab in Norway and received support from the Lisa Ullman Travel Scholarship Fund. Read more about the Forum here.
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