Open to Australian choreographers and dancers.
A fantastic surprise addition to our 2015 Facilitated program, American dancer Riley Watts, a member of the Forsythe Company since 2010 will lead a workshop over two mornings at The Drill Hall.
Riley Watts is a dancer, teacher, researcher from Maine, USA. He studied dance at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Juilliard School in NYC. He has worked professionally with the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Bern Ballet, Netherlands Dance Theater 2, and currently is a dancer with The Forsythe Company in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to performing, he regularly teaches Forsythe improvisation methods for dance professionals, students, and non-dancers of all ranges of age and experience. From 2010-2014 he was an Associate Researcher with Motion Bank and contributes to collaborative research specializing in the Neuroscience of Dance in coordination with universities in the UK, Germany, and Australia.