We will also explore our relationship to space and to what supports us and look at our responses to stimuli from inside and from around us.

Be prepared to work individually, in pairs and as a group and to be curious about the quality of your own experience. Dancers of all abilities are welcome and any level of AT experience.

Lucia is interested in the way Alexander principles, movement exploration, awareness practices and play can provide a ‘common language’ which lies beneath different cultural experiences and styles of dance.

Information on Lucia can be found here.

Lucia Walker (Sept 2011)

I am based in Oxford, England and Durban, South Africa. I travel and teach internationally, exploring a lifelong delight in movement and communication. I was introduced to Contact Improvisation in 1985, studying with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Julyen Hamilton and Kirstie Simson and have been learning, teaching and practicing the form since then. I worked for many years with Jointwork Dance Group, working with schools and community groups. As well as choreography Jointwork focused on exploring improvised performance which continues to fascinate me. With my peers I began teaching Contact as a way of exploring the skills and practice of the form.

In 1987 I qualified as a teacher of Alexander Technique. I teach individuals, groups and on teacher training programmes (UK, Japan, Australia and USA) working with students with a wide range of interests and abilities.

I enjoy how the principles of CI and AT support and clarify each other to encourage depth and wholeness in our moving selves.

I continue to work in many contexts leading workshops and collaborating in dance, physical theatre, communication, and movement research projects.

Current work includes workshops with Rosetta Life (creative and movement expression for those with neurological conditions or terminal illness), collaboration with Flatfoot Dance Company, (contemporary dancers in South Africa) “Prepared for Nothing and Ready for Anything”, teaching and choreography with students at Coventry University, and solo performance work; “the planet is my partner”.

In teaching I like to use games, discussion, touch, stillness and activity to explore movement, improvisation and creative principles in ways that are relevant and enjoyable.

I am particularly interested in the way movement exploration, awareness practices and play can provide a ‘common language’ which lies beneath different cultural experiences and styles of dance. For me dance can be a way of deepening our range of sensing, being and responding and help us with the challenges and delights of being human.