Facilitation
Amy Voris is a dance artist and facilitator based in Manchester, UK. Her practice is process-oriented and collaborative, driven by the desire to develop enduring relationships with people, places and movement material. She is curious about how movement emerges through a creative and critical dialogue with circumstance. Choreographic processes unfold over time rather than towards fixed outcomes, allowing shifts in understanding to grow gradually. Her projects span site-responsive performance, interdisciplinary collaboration and artist-led curation.
Alongside her creative practice, she has facilitated contemporary dance-related subjects in higher education for over twenty years. Current teaching within professional development contexts is informed by an ongoing engagement with experiential anatomy and the mover-witness framework. She invites dancers to cultivate embodied attention and reflective curiosity, exploring how movement structures emerge through sustained presence and atmospheric pleasure.
Current teaching includes delivery on the MA/MFA Creative Practice at Independent Dance (London) and on Janet Kaylo’s Laban/Bartenieff Somatic Studies International, alongside workshops for organisations such as La Manufacture (Lausanne), Mobius Atelier (UK/Italy), 24 Hope Street (Liverpool), Cheshire Dance, Wainsgate Dances (Hebden Bridge), Exitmap (London), London Contemporary Dance School, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Barrowland Ballet (Glascow).
Amy also works with artists as a creative mentor and postgraduate supervisor. Her mentoring practice is partly informed by the Creative Articulations Process (CAP) catalyst training with Jane Bacon and Vida Midgelow.
Enquiries: doridheavybody@hotmail.com OR info@amyvoris.com
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Forthcoming classes and workshops:
Wed 7 Oct – Wed 11 Nov 2026 ONLINE (9.00-10.15am / 6.30-7.45pm weekly)
Experiential anatomy into movement – The presence of bone
BOOKINGS contact Amy: doridheavybody@hotmail.com
Or via eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1998419081268?aff=oddtdtcreator
Oct 2026 – June 2027 IN-PERSON across six weekends at St. Clement’s Church (Manchester)
Experiential anatomy into movement workshop series
BOOKINGS contact Amy: doridheavybody@hotmail.com
Sun 1 Nov 2026 IN-PERSON (10.00am-5.30pm) at the River Room Wellbeing Studio (nr Lancaster)
An Introduction to Authentic Movement (with Penny Collinson)
BOOKINGS contact Penny: hello@pennycollinson.com
Sat 28 – Sun Nov 29 November 2026 IN-PERSON (10.00am-5.00pm) at Wainsgate Dances
Bouquet: Practices of gathering and arranging (with Katye Coe and Cath Cullinane)
BOOKINGS via Wainsgate Dances: https://buytickets.at/wainsgatechapelcharity/2374927
Mon 4 – Fri 8 Jan 2027 ONLINE (10.00-11.15am)
Experiential anatomy into movement – Reciprocities
BOOKINGS contact Amy: doridheavybody@hotmail.com
Mon 11 – Fri 15 January 2027 IN-PERSON (10.00am-12.00pm each day) at Independent Dance
Morning class
BOOKINGS via Independent Dance
Sun 24 Jan 2027 IN-PERSON (10.00am-1pm) at Soma Strata
A workshop with Jennifer-Lynn Crawford – details to be confirmed
Sun 31 Jan 2027 IN-PERSON (10.00am-5.30pm) at the River Room Wellbeing Studio (nr Lancaster)
An Introduction to Authentic Movement (with Penny Collinson)
BOOKINGS contact Penny: hello@pennycollinson.com
Wed 3 Feb – Wed 10 March 2027 ONLINE (9.00-10.15am / 6.30-7.45pm weekly)
Experiential anatomy into movement – Organ presence
BOOKINGS contact Amy: doridheavybody@hotmail.com
Feb – July 2027 ONLINE
Transitions and Transformations (with Natalie Garrett Brown)
BOOKINGS contact Amy: doridheavybody@hotmail.com
Sun 21 Feb 2027 IN-PERSON (10.00am-1pm) at Soma Strata
A workshop with Jennifer-Lynn Crawford – details to be confirmed
Wed 17 – Sun 21 March 2027 at Bidston Observatory (nr Liverpool)
Let me hear your body talk! (a residential workshop with Mary Pearson)
BOOKINGS contact Mary or Amy: mary@mpersonator.com or info@amyvoris.com
Wed 21 April – Wed 2 June 2027 ONLINE (9.00-10.15am / 6.30-7.45pm weekly)
Experiential anatomy into movement – Fluid presence
BOOKINGS contact Amy: doridheavybody@hotmail.com
Sun 27 June 2027 IN-PERSON (10.00am-5.30pm) at the River Room Wellbeing Studio (nr Lancaster)
An Introduction to Authentic Movement (with Penny Collinson)
BOOKINGS contact Penny: hello@pennycollinson.com
30 July – 1 August 2027 IN-PERSON at the River Room Wellbeing Studio (nr Lancaster)
Authentic Movement: An Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Moving and Witnessing
BOOKINGS contact Penny: hello@pennycollinson.com