Movement and Storytelling with Laura Weston

This workshop will go on sale on the following dates:

Priority on sale for Curve Connect: Friday 20 June
General on sale: Friday 11 July

Movement and Storytelling with Laura Weston

This workshop explores movement as an embodied language and a tool for physical storytelling. Together, you will investigate how narratives emerge from the body—through breath, sensation, spatial awareness, and dynamic expression using the framework of Laban’s Kinesphere and Ensemble Movement Practices which explore the use of motion, action, and spatial composition.

Through guided movement explorations, improvisational tasks, solo and group composition exercises, artists will expand their movement palette and deepen their connection to physical play and storytelling. The session will offer practical tools and inspiration for integrating movement into your artistic practice—whether you’re a performer, theatre-maker, film- maker, dancer, or multidisciplinary creator.

This workshop encourages curiosity, risk-taking, and embodied exploration, supporting artists in finding new creative pathways through the language of movement.

Age guidance: 18+
Running time: 2 hours
Additional note: Please come to this workshop prepared to move, in comfortable clothes and with water.

About Laura Weston:
Laura is a dancer, choreographer and director from Leicester, and has worked across dance, theatre and film. After completing her studies at Trinity Laban (’06) in contemporary dance performance (BA, MA) she went on to perform with Transitions Dance Company (UK) , Sarah Michelson (New York) and more recently with Candoco Dance Company in Jeanine Durning’s LAST SHELTER for a European tour in 2023. She is the founder of STATE OF FLUX, a company who produce movement-based multidisciplinary work. Her latest project NO DRINKS ON THE DANCE FLOOR: a love letter to the British Nightclub Dance Floor celebrates Leicester’s rich cultural history of dance floors and culminated in an exhibition and live event at Curve as well as a short film which has won several awards.

Laura also works as a movement director and intimacy coordinator and has been involved in a variety of creative processes both nationally and internationally. Her practice is informed by Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) and rooted in somatic enquiry. Ensemble training methodologies as well as Viewpoints and other compositional and choreographic tools which she has gathered and developed over the course of her career. She also teaches at a range of drama and dance conservatoires nurturing performers in their training and craft.