Environmental Dance Weekends with Tara Brandel

24 and 25 May

12 and 13 July - Accessible weekend co-taught with Australia disabled dance artist Melinda Smith

10am-5pm each day. Meet in Ballydehob, West Cork

€125 full price

€100 concessionary

If you would like to book for more than 1 weekend then please contact us for a discounted rate.

Two Day (weekend) Dance workshops with Tara Brandel.
Deep listening, deep dancing.
Using the body to connect more deeply to our natural environment.

Set in the beauty of West Cork these workshops offer an embodied experience of the natural environment with a focus on environmentalism. Each workshop weaves together practice based movement/dance in the beautiful landscape of West Cork including native woodlands, boglands and beaches, allowing participants to develop a visceral experience of their natural surroundings, and deepen their relationship with nature and ecosystems.
No dance experience is required.
We will be working outside in suitable locations around West Cork.
(Come to one weekend, or come to them all!)

Tara Brandel is a contemporary dancer, contact improviser and choreographer originally from West Cork. She is Artistic Director of Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company. She trained in Contact Improvisation as a teenager with Steve Paxton and has been practising CI for 35 years. Having studied with Anna Halprin and the Tamalpa Institute, Tara has an ongoing love of using CI principles and somatic techniques to dance with nature. Tara delights in bringing her soft animal self to many outdoor environments and can often be found rolling with sand dunes, partnering with trees and dancing with rocks. Tara is currently developing climate action awareness through movement and dance performances in conjunction with the Environmental Research Institute at UCC.

Images by: Stacey White