Choreographing Joy

Friday 22 October 2021, 15:00—16:30

• Free
• Workshop
• British Sign Language

What you’ll do

Experience the power of dance in an online movement workshop with choreographer Vania Gala.

Following a warm-up, Gala will introduce you to the meditative and trance-like state 

that dancing can evoke as you move to music from Harold Offeh’s ‘The Joy Inside Our Tears’

 installation.

No previous experience is required and you’ll be invited to move in whatever way is comfortable for you. 

The workshop will be a live closed event with a small group of people, which will not be recorded. 

We encourage cameras to be on so you can dance with others and ask questions. 

After booking a ticket, you will receive a confirmation email with joining instructions.

 

About your contributorsHarold Offeh

Harold Offeh

(he/him)

Curator

Harold Offeh is a UK-based artist working in a range of media including performance, video, 

photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by inhabiting 

or embodying histories, using humour to confront the viewer with historical narratives and 

contemporary culture. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including Tate Britain 

and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Turf Projects (London), Kettle’s Yard, Wysing Arts Centre 

Studio (Cambridge), Studio Museum Harlem (New York), MAC VAL (France) Kunsthal Charlottenborg

 (Denmark) and Art Tower Mito (Japan). He recently completed a PhD exploring the activation of 

Black album covers through performance. He is a Reader in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University and a tutor in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.

Vânia Gala

(she/her)

Choreographer

Vânia Gala is a choreographer and researcher. Gala's choreographies and conversational

performances explore the critical potential of (non)performance(s) and opacity in the present time. 

Her interests lie in critical dance studies, performance philosophy and experimental practices with 

an emphasis on notions of refusal, choreo-thinking, fugitivity, improvisation(s), negotiation, dissensus, hospitality and value.