Nathan Crossan-Smith Artist-Led Session
Creating layered dramaturgies: Lyricism, movement and creative access
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The session will be a celebration of the possibilities of layering and connecting movement phrases, scores and paths with poetic texts and lyrical flows, drawing on Nathan’s work in this area over the last ten years.
Additionally, the session will explore how both forms can be rendered in creative access through creative captions and a poetic, playful use of audio description. A space to make new connections with a spirit of openness and play.
Participants from all movement backgrounds are encouraged to take part, no formal dance training is required.
This will be a hybrid session, taking place in person and online. If you would prefer to attend this workshop via Zoom, please click here for further information and to book.
Part of Sadler’s Wells Artist Development Programme: Artist-Led Sessions. Find out more about the selection process for this programme.
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Nathan Crossan-Smith is a director and practitioner working across theatre, dance, immersive work and lyricism. He is Co-Director for Hydrocracker and a Trustee for Graeae. He has directed performances and projects for National Theatre Learning, National Theatre Wales, Liverpool Everyman, Graeae, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Donmar Warehouse, Royal & Derngate Northampton, Orange Tree, and LAMDA as well as regularly running lyricism courses in prisons and hip hop artistry degrees programmes.
He trained at LAMDA, the National Theatre and Royal Ballet & Opera’s inaugural OPERA LAB programme. He is a Deutche Bank Award Winner, a Nominee for The Stage Debut Award for Best Director and Runner Up for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award and the JMK Award.
Heath & Access Requirements
We can put a range of things in place to best support your participation. Please contact artist.development@sadlerswells.com with your specific requirements.