Education & Workshops
Fidget Feet can provide creative opportunities to both professional performers and the public community by offering educational workshops and residencies, or one off classes.
A residency program can be created mixing any of the skills listed below using one or more tutors, depending on the size of the group.
- Contemporary Dance
- Contact Dance
- Aerial & Circus Skills
- Choreography Skills
- Storytelling
- Music & Multimedia
- Theatre Skills
Chantal can be booked to choreograph for professional dance, circus or theatre companies and non-professional companies.
Chantal has taught and choreographed in schools, colleges, youth groups, professional companies in Ireland, Northern Ireland ,England, Scotland, Spain, and Earthdance in Boston, USA and Trinidad in South America. While Fidget Feet is on tour with their professional shows we offer classes, workshops and residencies…the company works with all ages and abilities and can create a package to suit all needs.
What children said about Fidget Feet’s workshops.
“…yes I really enjoyed it because it was really exciting for me and the people are really nice. We got to do things that we wanted and I’m on the cocoon and I can do really cool tricks on it. I like the teachers, they are really good at it as well.”
“..yes, definitely, it was so cool. It’s amazing how much you learn in four days.. the people that taught us were really understanding and nice.”
“.. yes sooooooooooooo much it was sooo fun and I could do it for the rest of my life… i love to learn new things .. I wish I could be as good as the people who did it….”
“My favourite part was hanging upside down, coz I am scared of stuff like that but I learnt to overcome my fear..”
Contact dance classes
3 hours – A contact dance class using improvisation leading into a structured 1 hour jam.
Contemporary dance classes
2 hours – Contemporary dance technique, and using improvisation skills.
Examples of residecy programmes
Circus workshops
1-4 hours – We can teach basic aerial skills up to a professional level using Cocoons and strops (for beginners), Cord de lisse (rope), silks/tissue (special cloth, hangs like a rope), aerial hoop (circular metal hoop ) and harness work including bungee, flying and abseiling.
Technical requirement
Need a space to rig ropes from the ceiling, attaching them to the main structure of the building i.e. beams that can take human weight.
- minimum height is 4 meters
- ladder or means to get to the ceiling
- gym mats
- max 8 – 12 people
- 1 rigger and 2 tutors
- Storytelling, movement and theatre workshop
- 1 storyteller
- 1 dance tutor
- 1 drama tutor
- 3 hours – Exploring ways of combining lots of art forms. Choose a theme for the workshop and the storyteller will tell stories to do with that theme. Group sitting in a circle. Then a physical dance warm up leading into some theatrical games. Break up in groups and find ways to create a short drama using movement, theatre and storytelling. All 3 tutors will help each group. Show what they have created at the end of the session.
Film Residencies (max 10-12 persons)
- 8 days or more
- 1 rigger/tutor
- 2 tutors
- 1 camera person/edit film maker
We offer a residency that works toward a short film instead of end performances. Using any of the sessions above we would put the focus on what kind of film to make and create dramas or dances to be filmed, would be great to be able to have an unusual location near the workshop space so we can film outdoors. The group would be involved in creating the ideas for film. Group would not film (unless the group had a camera of their own). After the residency the film would be edited by Fidget Feet and produced as a DVD.
(Fidget Feet worked with 100 youths from 10 – 16yrs, teaching and choreographing a piece that was performed in parade and before the Wired & Free show. Working with stilts, poi, flags, ribbons and dance to create ‘A Dragons Dream’.)
“The company delivered a programme that was professional, inclusive of all youth, original and well organised. They proved excellent role models as well as highly skilled performers. They were passionate and came with a bank of knowledge that showed true passion for creative methods. I would recommend them to any company or any educational group seeking to employ an original company that has youth at the heart of their focus. ”
– Maura Logue, Wavelength Arts Project