18-20 JULY 2025
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Free Workshop
Three Acts with Bethany Edwards
Wednesday 25th March, 11am-1pm, Surge, 51 Cadogan St, Glasgow, G2 7HF
Join dance artist Bethany Edwards in the studio for a workshop and practice exchange as part of her latest performance project ‘Three Acts; An Improvised Performance’. A duet in which audience interaction inspires the entirely spontaneously created content.
Following a led warmup for bodies and voices, Bethany will share games, exercises and scores that she has collected and developed across her career in improvisation, to explore movement driven improvised performance.
We will then practice performing and audience-ing for each other. Delving into the strategies for transforming audience input into material that Bethany and her collaborator Tess are developing.
This workshop is suitable for anyone with an interest in movement, voice work, improvisation. There is no need for formal training. Bethany aims to create accessible inclusive spaces for shared practice, please contact Surge if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.
To join us get in touch with melanie@surge.scot
Bethany Edwards is a dance artist working across performing, devising, improvisation, and teaching.
She has created and toured new work internationally with choreographers including Becky Namgauds, Tim Casson, Tess Letham, and Wired Aerial Theatre. And is a founding member of bad body chaos code, a pop-punk band working non-hierarchically to create euphoric, surreal, riot grrrl live experiences. Supported by Arts Council England, Stadt Bern, Brainchild Festival, Womxn SRSLY amongst others.
Solo and ensemble improvised performance credits include TicTac Brussels, Roadhouse Leeds, Hidden Door Edinburgh, WAPPArts London, Blunder Club Glasgow/Dundee.
Bethany makes and performs work that embraces the slipperiness of the body as storyteller, plays with the nuance of movement and language, values its collaborators as equal players, interrogates performance as practice, and celebrates the irreverent alongside the esoteric.