Inclusive Dance Cork are delighted to present a 4 day intensive workshop with Kim Epifano from 23 to 26 April 2025.
Inclusive Dance Cork presents The Art of Abstract Storytelling, a 4 day inclusive dance intensive with Kim Epifano, internationally acclaimed choreographer, performer, and cross-disciplinary dance, co-facilitated by Rhona Coughlan, Inclusive Dance Cork’s Artistic Director.
Using interdisciplinary improvisation techniques, Kim Epifano will guide participants with incorporating physicality-sourcing, partnering, distillation, imagery, vocalisation, theatre, and text and share how to apply these techniques to inclusive dance methods and choreography.
The 4-day intensive is open to all people, 18 and over, with and without disabilities, and from all levels of experience in movement, dance, and inclusive practice. Each day will start with a grounding and energising warm-up components pulled from Yoga, Chi Gung, Capoeira, Contact Improvisation, Post-Modern Dance, Chakra singing, and rhythmic and lyrical call and response. The group will move from inside to outside spaces to ideate and improvise movement and adapt it for location and accessibility. Aspects of visual art exploration will be introduced, including a process called body mapping that explores and reveals what you did and did not know was in your own body. The last day will include a low-key showing of our investigations from the workshop.
All participants will be asked to bring one object that they identify with now in their work or life, and any equipment they feel they may need for a movement and dance workshop.
Participants can expect to leave this workshop with more skills to investigate movement, theatre, improvisation and dance, and with a strengthened understanding of how to work in an inclusive and collaborative way.
For more information and to book, visit dancecorkfirkincrane.ie
Bursary Opportunities
Inclusive Dance Cork have 5 bursaries available to fully cover the €100 participant registration fee.Complete the Bursary Application Form by visiting dancecorkfirkincrane.ie by deadline Friday 11 April. Bursaries will be announced by Monday 14 April.
For any questions please email project coordinator louisa@firkincrane.ie
About the workshop host
Kim Epifano is an internationally acclaimed choreographer, performer, and educator with a 40-year career spanning dance, theatre, and community activism. She engages artists of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds through interdisciplinary workshops that foster learning, creativity, and collaboration. She was Artistic Director of Epiphany Dance Theater in San Francisco for 30 years. Kim earned multiple Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (IZZIES) and nominations, collaborated with Contraband, The Dance Brigade, Axis Dance Company, Croí Glan Integrated Dance Company, and Antoine Hunter’s Urban Jazz Dance Company.
A dedicated movement artist, Kim has trained in Contact Improvisation, modern dance, ballet, aerial arts, Samba and Capoeira, winning first place in Brazil’s women’s Capoeira division. She holds an MFA in Choreography from UC Davis and founded the San Francisco Trolley Dances, which ran for 21 years. Kim’s work has reached communities worldwide, including Mexico, Tunisia, China, Vietnam, India, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and Ethiopia.
Find out more about Kim Epifano by visiting epiphanydance.org
About Inclusive Dance Cork
Inclusive Dance Cork is a training programme for people with and without disabilities who are interested in learning inclusive dance methods. It is designed for dancers to explore expressive movement and discuss a variety of ways to dance, facilitate, and support dancers of all abilities.
Initially conceived by Yvonne Coughlan, chairperson of Dance Cork Firkin Crane, this ambitious programme is made possible by all of its collaborators, with its home being at Dance Cork Firkin Crane. Partners University College Cork, Suisha Inclusive Arts: Cope Foundation, and Cork Education and Training Board provide essential support for participants and accreditation opportunities. Learn more about Inclusive Dance Cork by visiting dancecorkfirkincrane.ie
Photo courtesy of artist, Kim Epifano.
