Choreography Workshop with Ruth Brill (August 2020)

On Monday 10th August, we were fortunate enough to welcome the wonderful Ruth Brill for a choreography workshop to help us with our summer dance project. We began with a discussion about ourselves and our dance interests, followed by a short warm up barre to get us moving. Ruth and Jasmine, our events officer, had together chosen a piece of music for the project from Cadenza, an a cappella group based in the university. After listening to the music and sharing our initial thoughts, we started coming up with our own ideas. We began individually creating approximately eight counts in whatever style came most naturally to us, with different people incorporating aspects of ballet, contemporary, jazz and street, among others. We then experimented with tempo and “feel” before collaborating to create a short section involving snippets from everyone’s initial eight counts. Working together both with Ruth and other dancers from across Cambridge was a hugely exciting experience and we can’t wait to continue with this project through the summer!