Training Workshop with Visiting Artist - Suzie Birchwood

Find Your Engineis a full-day inclusive ballet workshop for all abilities, movement backgrounds, and body types. Whether you use a wheelchair, crutches, or move in another way, the workshop is designed with every participant in mind.Using the Suzie Birchwood Methodology , informed by Universal Design and the Dance Unstuck Method, the day explores ballets core language line, musicality, and phrasing through multiple pathways.Participants are invited to discover their own engine: the primary artistic drive within their body. Legs, wheels, crutches, torso, spine all are valid, all are welcome. Through exploration, improvisation, duet, and ensemble work, participants build movement skills and create shared choreography together.No prior ballet experience necessary.What to expectThe workshop is structured to take you on a journey, from individual exploration through to shared ensemble work, you will explore the core language of ballet: line, direction, musicality, and phrasing.
You will be invited to find your own way into each movement, to identify your engine, the part of your body that drives, initiates, and articulates, and to work from there with full intention and integrity.
You will be supported throughout by Suzie and given clear tools and language to help you make conscious, creative choices about how you move, so that by the end of the day you leave with new skills, new vocabulary, and a deeper understanding of what your body can do.