Crip Dance Workshop at South East Dance

Friday 06 December 2024

5pm -7pm

Weston Research Space at The Dance Space, South East Dance

Ticket Price £3 (pay what you can suggested contribution)

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Join dance artists João Paulo Lima and Jean Abreu for a creative workshop that invites both disabled and non-disabled movers in Brighton to explore movement and dance.

As part of their international exchange and residency at South East Dance, this session delves into the creative processes behind their latest collaboration, Dark Ruim.

This workshop is an opportunity to engage with the concept of the Crip dancing body encouraging participants to explore Crip theory and envision new possibilities for movement in dance and performance. We will challenge traditional beauty standards in dance, focusing instead on the body as a starting point for fresh perspectives on movement. Through a decolonized approach, we will celebrate diversity and the intersection of identities that don't conform to the norm.

Led by João and Jean, the two-hour workshop will include creative movement tasks, improvisation, and collaborative exploration, all designed to inspire and empower participants to think outside conventional frameworks.

This is an advanced/professional workshop is for both disabled and non-disabled participants aged 16+. All varieties of dance experience are welcome.

If you'd like to join the workshop and you have any access requirements that we can support whilst you are at The Dance Space, please email: programming@southeastdance.org.uk

For more information about accessibility please visit our Access page.

Presented by South East Dance.

Artist bio

João Paulo Lima 

Activist, educator, performer 

João Paulo Lima is a PhD student in Dance at UFBA (Brazil), a contemporary dance technician, choreographer, teacher, and writer. His research focuses on people with disabilities in dance and their activism. He develops creative processes with independent artists and collaborates on cultural policies for people with disabilities in Brazil.  João explores the concept of "crip dance" and what disability creates as an aesthetic. 

Jean Abreu 

Dance Artist, Choreographer, Artistic Director

Jean Abreu is a contemporary Dance and performance Artist originally from Imperatriz ,a city in the North- Eastern Brazilian State of Maranhao. Jean lives in London and works internationally . His company Jean Abreu Dance was founded in 2009 as the creative engine to produce and develop his artistic work from the English town of Luton to the world.

As an immigrant artist to the UK Jean finds his inspirations in observing the transitory and transforming nature of human experience, in himself and others. His creative practice as a choreographer centres on using the body to express and translate human emotions, memories, and experiences .He believes that the body holds the key to understanding who we are and what we feel, serving as a perfect interface with the world and a primal universal language for communication. In his performance work Jean is interested in capturing truthfulness , honesty and inviting audiences to a genuine sensorial experience that makes space for the authentic emotional narratives the body wants to share.

Jean has presented his Interdisciplinary work in multiple platforms , festivals and arts organisations in the UK and abroad . He is a guest artist in a range of Performance Arts and High educational institutions internationally and he co creates work in dialogue with other artists from a range of backgrounds and disciplines including movement ,voice, poetry, digital, visual artist, music sculpture film and fashion.