PRO CLASS SPRING TERM 2025 | CO-HOSTED BY THE WORK ROOM & BARROWLAND BALLET

About PRO CLASS SPRING TERM 2025 | CO-HOSTED BY THE WORK ROOM & BARROWLAND BALLET

PRO CLASS SPRING TERM 2025

Thursday Pro Class | with Jade Adamson | in Queen's Park Govanhill Church | 9.30 - 10.45am | 

The Work Room and Barrowland Ballet co-run weekly, morning class for the professional dance community in Glasgow on Thursdays and Fridays. 

Class is led by Aya Kobayashi and guest artists. The classes began in 2018 in response to the lack of professional-level contemporary dance classes in the city, providing a space for independent dance artists to come together to train and sustain practice. 

Aya takes a different teaching approach to the classes on Thursdays and Fridays, with guest teachers taking a similar approach. 

AYA'S THURSDAY CLASS "The class includes both set materials and improvisations to train the clarity and embodiment through release based technique. We start with gentle way-in to our moving body, often focus on breath and energy paths to find attentiveness. With a few simple repetitive exercises we will try to find a deeper understanding of gravity, alignments and skeletal connections. The class is designed to develop your stamina and strength as we will move through with full bodied engagement and articulation. Some phrases are repeated over a few weeks to explore familiar and unfamiliar coordination of movement vocabulary."

Our aim is for these classes to be accessible to a wide range of physicalities. If you have any access requirements that you would like to make us aware of in advance or you would like to chat this through, please contact hello@theworkroom.org.uk

The classes are currently subsidised by Barrowland Ballet and The Work Room. The class fee is £7 with the option of discounted rates (£5 & £3) to support Work Room members/ professional dance artists who are currently ou of work.

While we remain keen for these classes to be an accessible resource supporting the professional dance community in Glasgow, the long-term sustainability of these is not possible without generating income towards the costs. 

We encourage you to consider what you are able to contribute financially to make these classes possible. If the discounted rates are still a barrier to you attending, please do contact us at – hello@theworkroom.org.uk