Conscious Dance Workshop with Live DJ
This conscious dance workshop will be led by Martina Acosta Rama with Gav Timlin on decks.
Conscious dance fuses dance and mindfulness to foster confidence in self expression through non prescriptive movement. In this two hour workshop Martina will lead you through some grounding exercises and physical warm ups, space exploration followed by a sober rave with music that builds the energy from low to high to low.
Finally a finishing meditation will be led by Martina to settle the nervous system.
To remove barriers for attendance we have a limited number of stipends available for access and/or childcare costs. Please contact natashaeverittarts@gmail.com to avail of this.
Note: Stipends will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.
Gav Timlin
Gavin Timlin is a music producer, DJ and experienced sound engineer, and has been teaching at Ableton Certified Center, CreateSound, since 2011. Besides making his own electronic music, he has produced and released remixes for various Irish and international artists. He also continues to use Ableton to run music-making workshops in multiple outreach contexts such as refugee camps, prisons and disadvantaged communities.
Gavin has performed using Ableton in multiple Irish venues and at festivals like Electric Picnic, as well as hosting a local radio show for a number of years showcasing Irish electronic music.
He originally trained and worked as a studio engineer in Manchester, then returned to Dublin to set up his own music production teaching company. He transitioned to Ableton Live in 2008 and now uses it for all mixing, mastering and DJing.
Gavin and his team at CreateSound moved all their courses online in 2020 and are open to anyone internationally. Classes are run in small groups in an online and interactive format. One-to-one sessions are also supported. Check out the website for upcoming online Ableton Courses catering to different skill levels and uses of Ableton, such as Intro, Inspire and Push.
Martina Acosta Rama
Martina Acosta is a Uruguayan artist and event producer living in Waterford. Martina studied film making and art in UDELAR (Uruguay’s Republic University) and has danced all her life, with classical training to a vocational level. Martina studied Zen Meditation with Plum Village and Mindful Self-Compassion with EFSYP (Madrid) for her own health, and these practises seeped into her dance. These days Martina facilitates Conscious Dance workshops for adults in the South-East, produces and performs in Alien:Nation events in Waterford, and she’s currently working on her own series of dance films.
Martina loves creating spaces where people feel safe to explore what dancing means for themselves, through games, exercises, meditation and musical exploration.
