Creative Choreography with Jamaal O'Driscoll

Join dance artist and choreographer Jamaal O’Driscoll, founder of O’Driscoll Collective, for an interactive workshop exploring choreography, improvisation, creative process and developing your practice as an artist.

Drawing from his experience within Hip Hop and Breakin’ culture, improvisation, film, site-specific performance and building place-based work across the UK, Jamaal will share insight into the different influences, experiences and approaches that shape his creative practice.

How do you turn an idea, feeling, environment or question into movement? How can improvisation help generate ideas and unlock new possibilities? How can movement itself influence and shape your wider creative practice? How can the places and communities around us influence the work we make? And how do you develop choreography collaboratively while finding your own artistic voice?

The session will explore Jamaal’s creative process through practical movement tasks, improvisation, creative exercises and open discussion. Participants will have the opportunity to experiment, make creative choices and explore how different starting points can lead to movement, choreography and performance, as well as how movement can open up new ideas and influence the way they approach their wider practice.

The workshop will explore:
● Developing ideas and translating them into movement
● Drawing inspiration from Hip Hop and Breakin’ culture, film, people and place
● Using improvisation as a tool for creativity, exploration and choreography
● Exploring how movement can generate ideas and influence your wider creative practice
● Approaches to choreography and creative decision-making
● Exploring how environment and personal experience can influence movement
● Developing site-specific and place-based approaches to making work
● Developing your own choreographic voice
● Navigating the creative process, including experimentation, failure and refinement
● Exploring how commitment to your practice can develop and evolve over time

Age guidance: 18+
Running time: 3 hours
Please note this workshop is on sale to Curve Connect members only until Sun 1 Nov.

About Jamaal O’Driscoll
Jamaal O’Driscoll is a Birmingham-based dance artist, choreographer and founder of O’Driscoll Collective, established in 2019. Working primarily through breaking, hip-hop theatre and community engagement, Jamaal creates work that explores identity, individuality, mental health and social connection.

His work has been presented across the UK and internationally, including at Munt Theatre in the Netherlands, Birmingham International Dance Festival, The Lowry, The Place, Breakin’ Convention, South East Dance, FABRIC, 101 Arts, Strike A Light and Nott Dance, as well as in Dublin, Ireland. Through his practice, Jamaal continues to create work that brings together movement, storytelling and lived experience, connecting with audiences and communities through dance.
Jamaal O’Driscoll is a Birmingham-based dance artist, choreographer and founder of O’Driscoll Collective, established in 2019. Working primarily through breaking, hip-hop theatre and community engagement, Jamaal creates work that explores identity, individuality, mental health and social connection.

His work has been presented across the UK and internationally, including at Munt Theatre in the Netherlands, Birmingham International Dance Festival, The Lowry, The Place, Breakin’ Convention, South East Dance, FABRIC, 101 Arts, Strike A Light and Nott Dance, as well as in Dublin, Ireland. Through his practice, Jamaal continues to create work that brings together movement, storytelling and lived experience, connecting with audiences and communities through dance.