The essence of movement: finding sculptural expression through dance with the English National Ballet

For two consecutive mornings, you will have privileged access to some of the world's top ballet dancers warming-up class offering a remarkable insight into the way the English National Ballet Company prepare before performance, in the opulent surroundings of the Coliseum theatre which we will have all to ourselves!

You will be introduced to strategies for fast sketching to enable you to gather visual notes focusing on the sculptural forms of the moving figure.

Further stimulation of ideas how to interpret your drawings three-dimensionally will come from how sculptors have investigated and executed a dynamic fluid form in space and the various sculptural techniques and materials to achieve this from Rodin to Tony Cragg.

Sculpture studio based work will explore sculpture as a visual interpretation of movement. We will consider the moving figure as a series of experimental sculptural forms. Using your studies from ENB other visual research as a starting point, you will be encouraged to investigate and extend your initial inspirational ideas through 3D maquettes. We will consider the realistic and/or abstract energetic human form and the shapes the movement of the body makes through space. You will create a series of experimental maquette sculptures that can be made in soft modelling materials and wire.