Contemporary Intermediate with Laura Gibson
Summer Intensives 2025
About Contemporary Intermediate with Laura Gibson
This intensive will run from Monday 11 - Friday 15 August 2025.
Develop your technical precision and increase your range of strength and stamina.
Perfect for anyone with at least 3 years of dance experience and who is looking to gain a new insight into contemporary dance.
This class blends release-based techniques with a focus on developing technical precision, strength, and stamina. Through energetic and rhythmically varied dance phrases, you'll work on movement efficiency, exploring fall, suspension, quick shifts in weight and direction. The class will push your physicality with intricate movements and encourage connections between movement, feeling and quality. The live music by Andres Pascua will help inspire your dancing throughout the class.
Class Details
- Enrol for the term for £70.00 to save and guarantee your place or drop-in for £16.00 per class.
- We encourage you to get in touch with us at classes@theplace.org.uk if you have any access requirements to ensure our classes are delivered in the most inclusive way possible. You can find an outline of our access information here.
- Please arrive on time - unfortunately we are unable to accommodate participants who are more than 15 minutes late as the warm-up is an important part of the class.
- Unfortunately, we are unable to offer refunds or exchanges, unless there are extenuating circumstances. You can read our booking Terms & Conditions here.
About your teacher
With a 22-year dance career, Laura has successfully established herself as a creative practitioner, choreographer, and technician in both professional and educational settings. Laura has worked with notable choreographers and companies, including Kerry Nicholls, Shane Shambhu, Two Thirds Sky, Dance United, and the Richard Alston Dance Company, as both a performer and teacher, and has held creative roles in education, outreach, and youth dance, representing and assisting Henri Oguike and Kenneth Tharp. Laura is regularly commissioned by companies, filmmakers, vocational institutions and university dance programs to create new repertory. Recently, she collaborated on a dance film featured on the Art Wall at The London Hippodrome.