Thursday was the final day of the creative intensive for Daisy Farris Dance Collective and the passionate work ethic of the entire team did not falter!

The focus was to develop the material we had created over the previous two days, which involved a lot of improvisation and creation as a group. It was really refreshing to be working as an entire group creatively and it highlighted our collaborative strengths as a team. As a result, a lot of fantastic development work was created and snippets of the work began to take shape. This intensive has produced a lot of material of a high quality and I am excited to begin piecing it together as a complete work.

I have been so humbled by the level of commitment and dedication that the team have demonstrated this week. This was our first creative intensive since we were established in August 2013 and it is a very different way of working compared to our regular weekly rehearsals. Having intensive time together has allowed us to flourish as a team, developing work that shows individual artistic investment from then entire team. The creative tasks we have pursued has seen the movement language I have developed previously take interesting new directions. The movement is animalistic, gritty, and rhythmically dynamic. I have chosen to dance in this new work myself, which has given me a completely different experience of the creative process. I have found that experiencing the same as the dancers have given me more choreographic ideas. It has also been a real pleasure to work more collaboratively with the dancers during these three days; they not only respond brilliantly to my ideas but also offer their own creative input.

It has been a real experience working during this intensive and I hope it is the start of many more to come! Look out for lots of photos and some video snippets coming soon.