Friday 24th January
We are looking forward to welcoming you to The Dragon Café on Friday 24th January.
The Dragon Café will be in person at St. Johns Waterloo
MFC Presents Sound —> Movement
A non-judgmental space for artists, dance practitioners, enthusiasts, and beginners alike to explore music —> perception —> movement.
This is a day of individual and collective movement. A time for vibration in space. Here you will explore, with dancer and writer Paula Riofrio, somatic awareness, movement and perception through Deep Listening and the use of your own voice. It will help you reconnect with your body, gain proficiency and release bodily perceptual and intellectual blockages.
The methodologies of body awareness practised by Paula work mainly on releasing involuntary tensions in the body, supporting balance to display movement and sound. Through active listening meditation you will be encouraged to sense different parts of your body and find fluidity.
This practice also inhabits a more experimental realm. We will play around with collective improvisation, modes of dance composition, and mark-making in space.
Through poetic writing with Emma McGordon we will explore ways to embody movement in ways which expand the dance medium.
Doors Open – 2pm
2:15pm – 3:15pm: Creative writing – warming up with Emma McGordon
3:30pm – 5:30pm: Methodologies of the body with Paula Riofrio
Socialising, warm-up, humming, combining, changing, and rotating are some of the vibrational methodologies we will explore in this session. Then, Dance Composition!
4pm – 5:30pm: Movement à Writing with Emma McGordon
Moving dance onto the page. Move, Be Moved, Write. We will use the sound and movement in the space as creative inspiration for poetry.
6pm – 7:30pm: Movement à Charcoal with Paula Riofrio and Laura Doehler.
And onto the experimental realm! Sensing music, unfurling bodies, unfurling spines, unfurling canvas, moving gesture into marks.
Meet Paula Catalina Fajardo Riofrío:
Paula is an Ecuadorian movement practitioner based in London. Paula recently finished her MA in Dance Philosophy and History at the University of Roehampton, and has pursued her dance career within contemporary dance, at Espacio Vazio, Siobhan Davies Studios, National Company of Dance (Ecuador) and independent dance masters in Ecuador.
All are welcome and we look forward to welcoming you to The Crypt at St Peters. See you on Monday!
How to Find Us:
The Events listed above will be held at The Crypt at St Peters Church, all are welcome!
Full Address: INSPIRE AT ST.PETER’S, LIVERPOOL GROVE, SE17 2HH
The venue is a 15 minute walk From Elephant and Castle station.
BY TUBE
The nearest underground stations is Elephant and Castle, accessible via Northen Line and Bakerloo Line. This station is a 15 minute walk from The Crypt at St Peters.
BY TRAIN
The Crypt at St Peters is 15 minute walk from Elephant and Castle train station.
BY BUS
The following bus routes stop near The Crypt at St Peters: 12, 35, 45, 148, 171, 40, 68, 176 or 468. These stop at Westmoreland Road bus stop J or K which is a 2 minute walk from The Crypt at St Peters Church.