A brilliant and fun session, set to music, High Rise Movement is a gentle choreography that focuses on engagement through touch, massage and props.
The sessions work by stimulating movement and senses. We achieve this in a variety of ways, often using a theme.
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We explore methods such as sensory touch; hand massage using oils and lotions; mirroring; contact dance; finger dancing and clapping. We use rhythm in the form of poetry with actions; songs welcoming members into the group; music; percussion to facilitate atmosphere and to awaken other senses. Props with different textures are employed to give a tactile experience, such as bubbles; ribbon sticks; feathers; scarves with scented oils; massage balls; sponge balls and weighted bean bags.
Massage is used to great effect: patting with different hand and finger shapes; stroking with different textures and using airflow with fans and scarves.
The groups meet in a large hall, allowing plenty of space to move and explore.
Above all, High Rise Movement is an experience that contributes massively to emotional, psychological and physical wellbeing.
High Rise Movement Group Documentary and Musical Performance, created in Spring 2016 and shown as part of the BEYOND Festival in June 2016.
This short film was created for the Time to Shine website. It formed part of the project Moments of Movement, exploring movement and dance using articulated figures.
The Elders had previously worked on a project called ‘Magic Moments’, reminiscing about holidays and activities they had enjoyed in the past. As an extension, this project focused on how the group would most like to spend their time now.
Artists on this project were; Alison Grace, Anthony Cox, Barrie Nelson, Cassy Oliphant, David Maccoby, Ian Wilson, John Bilham, John Densley, Kevin Sharkey, Lesley Swithenbank, Margaret Groves, Oyidya Ndukwe, Penny Lewis, Stephen Waterhouse.
ideaLeeds
ideaLeeds was created by the Beam Team – Fran Rodgers, Liam Hirst, Sam Wainwright, Scott Anderson, Tom Dransfield, William Stapleton.
The Beam Team worked together from 2012 to 2015, making large scale interactive intstallations utilising sound technology.
ideaLeeds consisted of six large cubes. Each cube represented an aspect of city life; green space, work, retail, transport, home and sport. The boxes each contained a soundscape relating to its theme. The audience could move the cubes closer or further away from themselves, composing their ideal city soundscape.
ideaLeeds was exhibited initially at the Howard Assembly Room but toured extensively to Breeze on Tour and Light Night in Leeds. The Beam Team were invited to bring a cube to take part in Nuit des Lampions, a late night lantern and arts festival in Wiltz, Luxembourg.
I Want to Know (IWTK) was a partnership project between disability arts organisations from Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland and the UK. During four different projects, artists traveled to each of the partner organisations, to learn about them, their ways of working and to produce a collaborative artwork.
The aim was to broaden perspectives in different countries concerning the artists’ work, their creativity and the similarities and differences of disabled arts practice across Europe.
The art group at Bramley Aspire, spent a term exploring classic stories in their movement sessions. Using props, smells, sounds and movement, the group created sensory performances of Alice In Wonderland and Red Riding Hood.
