DIG 2025: Mutation through Movement Workshop with Roseann Dendy

Part of Tramway's Dance International Glasgow festival, 9 - 24 May

This workshop will take place within the Tramway studio and is free to attend.  The workshop is open to any genre or level of ability. 

Email hello@theworkroom.org.uk to book your place.

Co-hosted by Colette Sadler / Stammer Productions, Tramway and The Work Room

This event is presented as part of Dance International Glasgow festival, 9 - 24 May

ABOUT

Mutation through Movement is a workshop that centres around concepts of infiltration, absorption and mutation. We will use improvisation, verbal and visual prompts, as well as larger creative scores to explore the human body as a morphing, malleable form.

Together we will question how the body we are moving with can act as a vessel to explore other fictional bodies; ones that perhaps hold a different form or density, are powered by different materials, or are inhabited entirely by a foreign entity. In this, we will move through a process of de and recentring our humanness, seeing our bodies as animal, plant, substance and Spector.

The workshop aims to open new possibilities in our improvisational practice, allowing us to ignite an imaginative and curious approach to moving. It is open to participants of any age or level of dance ability, and will involve movement, writing, and group conversation.

The themes and methodology of this workshop come from the work of Scottish choreographer Colette Sadler, pulling from ideas within her latest work The Violet Hour. Roseann has been working closely with Colette throughout the creation and production of this work in the role of choreographic assistant.

BIO 

Roseann Dendy is an artist from Glasgow, working at the intersection between choreography, installation, performance and club culture. They make autofiction works that take form through movement, film, text, and sculpture. They care about exhibiting things that blur the lines between raw actuality and fatuous commercialism, seeing how bodies can live as a site for honesty and entirety, as well as a product to be labelled and consumed. Their practice holds space for intensity. Exploring fullness in emotional states and catharsis within performance. Embracing darkness, play and confrontation, their work has been described to have a 'visceral and pulsating energy’, and be ‘a journey of fevered dance’.

Roseann is a co-founder of Tough Boys, a queer led dance theatre collective from Scotland. Alongside collaborator Sula Castle, they make contemporary works for black box spaces, clubs, galleries and mixed media. They have presented work at a diverse range of venues across the UK including Sadler's Wells, The Place Theatre, Dalston Super Store, Ugly Duck, Jacksons Lane and Bermondsey Project Space. Roseann & Sula are Young Associate Artists at Sadlers' Wells 2023/25. They are resident artists at Ugly Duck, and were recipients of the Trinity Laban Innovation Award 2021. They have worked with multiple dance institutions including Trinity Laban, The Place, Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Dance East.

Visit Roseann's website

Follow Roseann on Instagram @roseanndendy / @toughboysdanceco

Colette Sadler / Stammer Productions – Artist Development Strand  

In recent years Colette Sadler and Stammer Productions has expanded our Education and Talent Development Arm through cultivating professional development opportunities for dancers and emergent choreographers to receive training through workshops, company class and longer-term mentorship attached to both our productions and ‘Present Futures’ festival programmes. This has become an integral aspect of our role in the Scottish Dance Sector which we hope to cultivate further.

Funded by Creative Scotland. Produced by Feral and Colette Sadler/ Stammer productions

Visit Colette Sadler's website 

@colette.sadler