Green Silence

Join Sarah Elsworth for a dynamic workshop exploring GREEN SILENCE, a site-responsive dance project investigating our relationship to green spaces.

Through guided improvisation, group scores, and playful tasks, participants will explore how natural systems such as trees, migration, and collective organisms can inform the way we move and organise together.

Working with the original soundscore for Green Silence by Anita Clark (MOTTE), the workshop also includes short poetic writing tasks in response to the music, alongside learning a small amount of choreography from the project.

It is not required to have prior dance training, but curiosity, a willingness to physically connect and engage with others and concepts through movement is required.

Structure:
Open Contemporary Class (1.5 hours)
This open-level contemporary class offers a grounded yet expansive physical training experience, with a focus on fluid floorwork patterns and gentle somatic partnering practices. Together, we’ll explore efficient pathways through movement, building awareness of how the body efficiently travels, is supported yet soft, dynamic and connected.

30 mins break

Green Silence – Group Scores Workshop (2 hours) 

Requirements:

Wear comfortable clothing, bring a water bottle and shoes appropriate for the studio floor. 

Timing and location:

Saturday May 23 @ 1:15pm-5:15pm

Movement Studio 1,

Level 2, Parakiore

Price:

$15 for Open Contemporary Class
$20 for the Green Silence workshop
$30 for both

Your tutor

Sarah Elsworth

Sarah Elsworth is an interdisciplinary movement artist working between Aotearoa and India, exploring the connections between movement, sound, and place. With a background in contemporary dance from Unitec Auckland, her work spans performance, collaboration, and site-responsive projects. Alongside her creative practice, Sarah is a dedicated teacher, sharing movement with diverse communities in Ōtautahi and internationally. Her approach invites curiosity, connection, and creative exploration. She was recently awarded a Creative New Zealand Fellowship in collaboration with musician Anita Clark (MOTTE), supporting her ongoing work in movement and collaboration.