EMMA DANCE 

A one-day immersive workshop exploring the body as a source of poetry.

This is a space where movement and writing meet. Where the body speaks before words, and language emerges from sensation, rhythm, and image rather than thought alone.

Rooted in over 35 years of embodied practice and 25 years of teaching the Five Rhythms, Emma Leach invites you into a process of listening beneath the surface. Through guided movement, improvisation, and simple writing practices, we will explore how gesture becomes language, and how language can return to the body as movement.

There is no focus on performance or perfection. No need to be a dancer or a writer. This work is about presence, curiosity, and allowing what is already within you to find form.

Throughout the day, we will move, write, witness, and be witnessed. We will gather fragments, images, and sensations, shaping them into poetic expression, and then dissolving them again into movement.

This is a space for:

• exploring creativity through the body

• accessing a deeper, more instinctive voice

• allowing humour, imagination, and the unexpected to emerge

• reconnecting with the body as a living, expressive language

On the Summer Solstice, we will also take time to mark the turning of the season, closing the day with a simple, shared ritual of movement and words.

You are invited to come as you are.
With a body. With curiosity. With whatever wants to be written.