Footfalls Echo @ Burnlaw

A two-day dance retreat led by Tim Rubidge

Saturday and Sunday 29 and 30 June 2013.

Burnlaw Centre, Whitfield, Nr Hexham, Northumberland, NE47 8HF

Cost: £115/£95

This weekend retreat will connect relaxing and unwinding with a journey for mind and body through walking, moving and dancing.

We will explore the body as an instrument of focus and attention. There will be walking in silence in the stunning landscape around Burnlaw, in Northumberland's North Pennine hills, working with our senses to notice, listen, reflect and respond through the emerging dance. Dancing stillness and dancing gentle and dynamic observation.

We shall go between the outside environment of fields, woods and pathways, and the inside of the warm light main space of the Centre. Here we shall explore and exchange what we have found and noticed - in ourselves, in others, and in our surroundings - where landscape, walking, stillness and dancing become our practice.

Experience of some – though not all – of these activities will be useful. There will be time for sitting in stillness and writing.

There are 8 places. Please bring comfortable clothing for indoors and outdoors activities.

The retreat begins at 10am on the Saturday and concludes at 4.30 pm on the Sunday.

Burnlaw offers simple bunkhouse accommodation. We also have a field for camping. The retreat also includes lunch and evening meal on Saturday, and light breakfast and lunch on the Sunday. All food is prepared in our kitchen and will be deliciously vegetarian.

It is also possible to book and arrive to sleep over on the Friday evening for an extra £25. This will include an evening snack and Saturday morning breakfast.

Booking: please email tim.rubidge@phonecoop.coop to reserve a place.

Visit www.burnlaw.org for information on other Burnlaw themed retreats.

Tim has led many workshops and residencies in a wide range of situations and settings. Since developing as a choreographer who toured work nationally and internationally, in recent years Tim's work with body and imagination has been in relation to what can be discovered or recalled in changing environments – rural and urban – with walking, noticing, reflecting and expressing through the landscape of the body. He has developed innovative collaborations with dancers, visual artists, film-makers, writers and storytellers in adventurous relationships and within a range of locations.