Explore playful movement, sensory materials and guided meditation whilst interacting with nature on the coast.

Part of Open Art Folke

Join Elly for an outdoor Sensory Movement Workshop using playful movement, sensory materials and guided meditation whilst interacting with nature on the coast. Together, we’ll explore the previous Triennial artwork Oceans Tree of Life (https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/artists/jennifer-tee/) by Jennifer Tee and the surrounding nature of East Cliff park.

What would it feel like to be an artwork or a plant? How can we become an extension of it using our body and tactile materials?

In this workshop, you are invited to engage your curiosity and find new ways of experiencing art and nature with a more mindful perspective. Feel inspired and discover the extraordinary in the ordinary. Slow down (or dance around), reconnect with the body and sink into the present moment.

No dance experience required. Please bring water, comfortable clothes and shoes for moving. Playful folk of all ages and abilities welcome.

We’ll meet at 10.30am at Oceans Tree of Life beneath Martello Tower 1 on Jocks' Pitch, East Cliff park. I’ll be walking up from Mugs café at 10am if you’d like to join, just let me know.

About Elly Rutherford

Elly Rutherford is an experimental artist, dancer, performer and workshop facilitator based in Folkestone. She creates playful participatory art, sensory installations and curious performances in everyday and unusual spaces. Her art practice is like a giant collage, combining a wide range of mediums together: sculpture & found objects, collage, drawing, printmaking, sewing, photography, projection, video, poetry, spoken word, improvisation, dance & performance, meditation, sound and scents.

Her interactive artworks respond and transform spaces with mindful experiences and sensory materials to alter perceptions and benefit well-being. She explores our connection with nature, the importance of play for all, art in the everyday and the psychology of making. With experience of dancing in many styles such as contemporary, salsa, swing and hula hooping, she mixes these together with performance techniques and materials to create a unique movement language (enter Kate Bush the Organised Dancer).

She also facilitates workshops in sensory play, art making, mindfulness, improvisation and performance for all ages and abilities. She has also made work for community, health, outdoor, domestic, gallery and online spaces across Kent, London and Europe.

https://ellyrutherford.com (https://ellyrutherford.com/)

@elly_ruthers

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