A Movement Workshop with James Wilton Dance

Join award winning dance company James Wilton Dance for this three hour contemporary dance, movement workshop on Saturday 4th October 2025. Drawing influence from capoeira, acrobatics and yoga, this movement workshop explores expansiveness and fluidity, encouraging a three dimensional understanding of the body in motion and a conscious connection to breath and form.

Grounding you from the floor up, James and Sarah will begin with a class that teaches you how to understand the fundamentals of floorwork technique, before helping you to transition seamlessly to standing and then jumping and more dynamic movement, building on your existing body awareness from yoga.

After the technique work, you will learn some repertoire from James Wilton Dance’s internationally renowned work The Four Seasons – blending flow, power, and storytelling through the body. Finish with some creative exploration work where, guided by James and Sarah, you will create your own choreography, and discover new ways to express yourself through movement.

Aimed at people with some previous dance experience, however adaptable for all abilities – this is an inspiring opportunity to deepen your physical practice in a playful, supportive environment.

Join us on Saturday 4th October at 1pm. Tickets £35. Discount available for Annual and monthly members. Keep scrolling for the booking link. Please note this workshop is not available to book using Lime House credits.

 

About

James Wilton Dance

James Wilton Dance was founded in 2010 by choreographer James Wilton and dancer Sarah Jane Taylor.

The company has won awards at the Bern,Hannover and MASDANZA International Choreography competitions and theSadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest.

The company’s first full evening work Last Man Standing (2014) was performed 78 times and won an award at the Bern Tanzprize in Switzerland.

Subsequent productions LEVIATHAN (2016) and The Storm (2018) toured even more extensively, achieving close to 200 performances between them, including sold out runs at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performances in Germany, Gibraltar, Austria, Peru, Spain, Poland and Sweden. LEVIATHAN was nominated for best dance production at the Manchester Theatre Awards.

James Wilton has created works for Scottish Dance Theatre, Konzert TheaterBern, Theater Münster, Opera Graz, Ballet Hagen, Staddtstheater Braunschweig and dance company Giessen and has choreographed a work for 50 professional dancers for performances at Millennium and Wembley Stadiums (reaching over 110,000 people in the process).

James Wilton Dance is based in Cornwall, and has been commissioned by more than a dozen venues across the UK, with long term partnerships to create work for the audiences of Hall for Cornwall, Blackpool Grand andDanceEast, among others.

Extensive education work has always gone hand-in-hand with its performance programme, and is central to its mission.

James Wilton Choreographer

James Wilton is quickly becoming known as one of the UK’s leading choreographers, renowned for creating breathtakingly physical choreography. Since forming his company, James Wilton Dance has toured extensively both in the UK and Internationally to critical acclaim.

From an interview with Creative Folkestone

“I started to dance at 15, I chose it as an option for my GCSE’s. Things really started to move when I joined Cornwall Youth Dance Company and then I decided I wanted to pursue it as a career.

Even when I started at 15, I was interested in choreography more than just performing. I love the challenge of taking an idea that starts as just a seed of a thought and growing it in to a piece of art. I think what I prefer about choreography is that you start right at the genesis of the idea and see it through until the end whereas dancers usually come on board later on in the process.

I think the key signatures [in my choreographic style] are the really raw, dynamic and almost aggressive movement quality as well as the introverted nature of the performance. I think the super-human physicality is what drives the work and what sets it apart from my peers. I also think that the martial arts/sport influence in the work makes it quite un-dance like, whilst still remaining deeply physical.

I always begin from a philosophical or political starting point. From there I like to work quite independently in growing the idea in to the finished product. I always have a physical goal I want to achieve but don’t always know exactly what it should look like. I think that is where the dancers come in in helping me realise exactly how it should look and what the work should “feel” like.

Read the full interview here

A Movement Workshop

Saturday 4th October | 1-4:00pm

Limited spaces available – don’t miss out – book your spot today.

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Teaser Trailer

If you haven’t seen James and Sarah in action, enjoy this teaser trailer from The Four Seasons

 

 

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