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Over the past week I have had the honour to be part of Ffin Dance's annual Easter Intensive. The week contains a master class every mourning with senior dancer Lisa Hood, who challenged all involved both technically and mentally. Throughout the afternoon artistic director Sue Lewis would take control and choreograph a brand new work on the 11 individuals who participated.
This would be my second year that I have taken part in this event and for the second year in a row I have been challenged as an artist and learnt valuable lessons as an individual that will help me as I progress in my career. Working in such a professional environment is always exciting and working with different individuals than I would in Scotland always take my creative mind to another level. This year I had the opportunity to work with graduate dancers from Northern, London Contemporary, Laban and also a current dancer of EDge. Closely watching these dancers I took on board the qualities that made them eye catching to myself and tried to execute the same qualities in my own performance.
During the weeks intensive as a unit, Sue Lewis choreographed a brand new work, 'Florid.' As a intellectual choreographer, Sue challenged me not just physically but allowed me to explore my creative mind on a more intelligent level. Working closely with the 13th century music that Sue had chosen challenge my timing ability and open my creative mind for the future of possibly working more with this art form. Future plans for this work is to tour it nationally, giving dance graduates experience of working and touring as part of a professional company and also getting to perform. So keep a look out for Ffin 2 in the coming months.
Andrew
