ASHANTI Harris

Glasgow Open Dance School (G.O.D.S) was founded in 2011 by artists Romany Dear, Letitia Pleiades and Ashanti Harris. G.O.D.S is a not for profit, community organisation, which facilitates free dance and movement, focused activities in different locations in Glasgow. G.O.D.S is a members organisation that is open to everyone and aims to provide workshops for people of all abilities. We believe that everyone is a dancer! And everyone is a teacher! And we create spaces that are supportive for people trying new things and exploring movement.

Recent projects include: School for Civic Imagination, CCA, Glasgow, 2019; Movement Choir as part of Festival of the Not, Newcastle, 2019; Workshop / Movement Scores with G.O.D.S, The Common Guild, Glasgow; G.O.D.S Weekend as part of Glasgow International 2018; Collective Action As part of Lunarnova Campout, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, 2017; Embodied Place Workshop – as part of World Is Sudden: Summer Lab, Circa Projects, Newcastle, 2017; With Straight Face, LEGROOM, Manchester, 2017; The Curious Incident of the DIG in the Night-Time – as part of Dance International Glasgow, The Poetry Club at SWG3, Glasgow, 2017; [B]reach: The Fugitive Chronicles – as part of Arika Episode 8: Refuse Powers Grasp, Tramway, Glasgow, 2016; Techno Witch Ballet Workshops with Elizabeth Ward, Tramway, Glasgow. 2016. Bring a Score + Do a Score – As part of the exhibition The Only Way To do It Is To Do It, The Hunterian, Glasgow. 2015-16.

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Glasgow Open Dance School provides a space where people can learn, teach and partake in movement related workshops for free. For G.O.D.S’ movement begins with the body, to de intellectualise by listening acutely to the body; the collective body and your (my) individual body. (YES)

Following feeling rather than style or technique and attempting to move from the gut, we learn together. Allowing our instinct to be our nose, leading us towards what is attractive to us and away from what is not.

It is integral that GODS is physical and holistic; valuing shared learning and collective movement above individual excellence. We (you) move as a group in continual process without pressure to ever perform or finalise. (YES)

Everyone (you) is equally welcome to contribute to the content of the workshops. All forms of movement and methods of teaching are encouraged. G.O.D.S is a non fixed group with an intentionally non thematic style. Our intention is to move. (YES)

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