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CREATIVE CLASS WITH LIZ AGGISS - 15 April to 20 May 2026
COURSE LEADER LIZ AGGISS
Award winning choreographer and performer Liz Aggiss invites you to share her approach to performance making. Using movement, gesture, words, props, visuals, music, discussion and all manner of task based strategies, the workshop will revel in its creative mess, guided by instructions and supported by boundaries.
“We will attempt to unlock the expressive body and its hidden genius. You will be guided to create some compositional gems. The session will involve a warm up of body and mind, improvisational tasks, and lead to creating short dances, fragments, frags, frs…..or simply an f. We may also go off piste. Always expect the unexpected! If participants would like to develop short solos, and I do mean short, 2/3 minutes tops, and present in the final week, frankly that would fill me with joy! No Pressure. Your call! Please bring a notebook and writing tools.” - Liz
An unmissable opportunity to work alongside Liz while she prepares to present her new work as part of Brighton Festival 2026, ‘Crone Alone’. More details below.
Open to ages 55+ and all levels of experience or mobility.
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, 12:30 – 2:30 PM (2 HOURS)
DATES: 15 APRIL TO 20 MAY (5 sessions - No class on 6th May)
PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO CLASS ON 6TH MAY DUE TO LIZ’S BRIGHTON FESTIVAL SHOW
LOCATION: THE DANCE SPACE, SOUTH EAST DANCE
LIZ AGGISS IN CRONE ALONE at the Brighton Festival
Crone Alone is the new solo from Liz Aggiss, grand dame of anarchic dance and ‘enfant terrible’ of the bus pass generation. Driving herself dizzy with questions of value and worth, she slams down a ‘mindfield’ of unexploded ordinance, angst and deviation. As she zigzags towards the finish line, her mature body testifying to its limitations, Liz Aggiss peels back the bollocks of performance palaver, blazing out her inner crone with clipped dances, poetic outbursts, backchat, delusions of grandeur…….and a horse.
Tue 5 & Thur 7 May at 6.30pm, Weds 6 May 2 pm at The Dance Space
“…..inimitable presence – equal parts Weimar cabaret host, dada dancer, rogue feminist and end-of-pier prankster – feels as fresh now as it did when she started out four decades ago.” Sanjay Roy The Guardian
“You can’t take your eyes off her…..she’s charismatic to the point of perplexing. Her genius is herself though. What she offers is so genuine……personal, purposeful and profound.” Mathew Paluch Seeing Dance
“honestly I’d pay to just watch her eyes roll!” Audience member from performance The Tute, Cambois, Northumberland
ABOUT LIZ
Liz Aggiss is a Brighton based, award winning performer, director, choreographer and writer. For the past 45 years she has been re(de)fining her own brand of contemporary dance performance, dodging categorisation and being classified as unclassifiable. Blurring the boundaries between high art and popular culture, she makes uncompromising, challenging, feminist work.
From her early days in the 1980s supporting punk legends The Stranglers with her cabaret troupe The Wild Wigglers, to her classic solo ‘Grotesque Dancer’, ‘Guerrilla Dance’ interventions, an unconventional Performance Lecture ‘Survival Tactics’, a cross-art show ‘The English Channel’, the dark-humoured ‘Slap and Tickle’, Liz Aggiss has, with her distinct visual aesthetic, resisted the ‘authority’ of formal conventions, explored gender politics and the representation of woman in contemporary dance. Her work has represented the nation on the international stage and as she grows into herself, she continues to undo age related assumptions and biases. Her screen dance films have received numerous awards and commissions, including the BBC and Channel 4.
Aggiss received the Bonnie Bird Choreography Award 1994, an Arts Council Dance Fellowship 2003, Total Theatre Award 2017, is Emeritus Professor at the University of Brighton and holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and University of Chichester.
LIZ AGGISS - Visit her website www.lizaggiss.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Aggiss
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COURSE LEADER LIZ AGGISS
Award winning choreographer and performer Liz Aggiss invites you to share her approach to performance making. Using movement, gesture, words, props, visuals, music, discussion and all manner of task based strategies, the workshop will revel in its creative mess, guided by instructions and supported by boundaries.
“We will attempt to unlock the expressive body and its hidden genius. You will be guided to create some compositional gems. The session will involve a warm up of body and mind, improvisational tasks, and lead to creating short dances, fragments, frags, frs…..or simply an f. We may also go off piste. Always expect the unexpected! If participants would like to develop short solos, and I do mean short, 2/3 minutes tops, and present in the final week, frankly that would fill me with joy! No Pressure. Your call! Please bring a notebook and writing tools.” - Liz
An unmissable opportunity to work alongside Liz while she prepares to present her new work as part of Brighton Festival 2026, ‘Crone Alone’. More details below.
Open to ages 55+ and all levels of experience or mobility.
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, 12:30 – 2:30 PM (2 HOURS)
DATES: 15 APRIL TO 20 MAY (5 sessions - No class on 6th May)
PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO CLASS ON 6TH MAY DUE TO LIZ’S BRIGHTON FESTIVAL SHOW
LOCATION: THE DANCE SPACE, SOUTH EAST DANCE
LIZ AGGISS IN CRONE ALONE at the Brighton Festival
Crone Alone is the new solo from Liz Aggiss, grand dame of anarchic dance and ‘enfant terrible’ of the bus pass generation. Driving herself dizzy with questions of value and worth, she slams down a ‘mindfield’ of unexploded ordinance, angst and deviation. As she zigzags towards the finish line, her mature body testifying to its limitations, Liz Aggiss peels back the bollocks of performance palaver, blazing out her inner crone with clipped dances, poetic outbursts, backchat, delusions of grandeur…….and a horse.
Tue 5 & Thur 7 May at 6.30pm, Weds 6 May 2 pm at The Dance Space
“…..inimitable presence – equal parts Weimar cabaret host, dada dancer, rogue feminist and end-of-pier prankster – feels as fresh now as it did when she started out four decades ago.” Sanjay Roy The Guardian
“You can’t take your eyes off her…..she’s charismatic to the point of perplexing. Her genius is herself though. What she offers is so genuine……personal, purposeful and profound.” Mathew Paluch Seeing Dance
“honestly I’d pay to just watch her eyes roll!” Audience member from performance The Tute, Cambois, Northumberland
ABOUT LIZ
Liz Aggiss is a Brighton based, award winning performer, director, choreographer and writer. For the past 45 years she has been re(de)fining her own brand of contemporary dance performance, dodging categorisation and being classified as unclassifiable. Blurring the boundaries between high art and popular culture, she makes uncompromising, challenging, feminist work.
From her early days in the 1980s supporting punk legends The Stranglers with her cabaret troupe The Wild Wigglers, to her classic solo ‘Grotesque Dancer’, ‘Guerrilla Dance’ interventions, an unconventional Performance Lecture ‘Survival Tactics’, a cross-art show ‘The English Channel’, the dark-humoured ‘Slap and Tickle’, Liz Aggiss has, with her distinct visual aesthetic, resisted the ‘authority’ of formal conventions, explored gender politics and the representation of woman in contemporary dance. Her work has represented the nation on the international stage and as she grows into herself, she continues to undo age related assumptions and biases. Her screen dance films have received numerous awards and commissions, including the BBC and Channel 4.
Aggiss received the Bonnie Bird Choreography Award 1994, an Arts Council Dance Fellowship 2003, Total Theatre Award 2017, is Emeritus Professor at the University of Brighton and holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and University of Chichester.
LIZ AGGISS - Visit her website www.lizaggiss.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Aggiss
WANT TO TRY A SESSION?
Choose a TRIAL SESSION and add to your basket or contact us
WANT TO SIGN UP FOR THE REMAINDER OF A COURSE? contact us
We collect only the information needed to manage your booking safely. Payments are processed securely by Stripe - we never store your card details. Data is stored safely, never sold, and you can review it at anytime. For more details, please see our full Privacy Policy.