Gallery Movement Workshop: The Arc of the Body

This gallery-based workshop connects with the artworks through an exploration of movement. Taking inspiration from Lucy Stein’s paintings to open a space for awareness, creativity and intuitive choice-making through movement, this workshop will guide participants to tune into the body as a source for connection and storytelling.

The workshop begins with a guided warm-up, focusing on tuning and grounding the body, while awakening awareness of the body’s materials—skin, bones, and organs. The second part of the workshop explores movement and image as a way of creating story, drawing on the paintings in the exhibition to improvise creating compositional tools and choreography. The final part of the workshop is dedicated to instant composition, where participants create and share moments of movement, individually and as a group, drawing on intuition and the elements explored throughout the session.

This is an adult workshop and is open to anyone with an interest in dance. No prior dance experience needed. Comfortable clothing recommended.

Aoibhinn O’Dea is a dance artist working across the dance, music and visual arts. She trained in Contemporary Dance (Tanzfabrik, Berlin), and holds an MA in Dance and Performance (Irish World Academy) and BFA in Sculpture (NCAD). Her work is often site-specific and public, combining movement, costume, and sound to explore themes of human connection and societal limitation. She teaches inclusive dance/movement workshops and collaborates with multidisciplinary artists such as Acid Granny, Péist and Isadora Epstein, underpinning an interest in making dance and performance more accessible to a wider audience.