Carrello
Centro d'arte Tictac
34, Rue Emile Carpentier
1070 Bruxelles
Belgio

Luglio 20 - 24

Leila McMillan

Soft Lock

In this workshop, we will work with duality and how two truths can occupy the same space at the same time. We will build a system where movement and jiu jitsu intersect through engaging and disengaging in physical contact and distance. We will practice tools from solo/duo improvisation, jiu jitsu drills/concepts, and passing through (DZ) specific partner tools, for our physical approach. We will work with hands as grips, feet as hooks, pushing and pulling, looping arms and legs, different ways to carry the body, to float on top. How to interlock limbs forming different body entanglements, how to go under and over, moving through states of tension and asserting physicality. Duality is present in how two elements can coexist, whether this be abstract or tangible, opposite or complementary, working to form a dynamic system. We will work with visible and invisible partners entering a shadow system with the memory of our partner. You will be led through different improvisation tasks, game and goal-based structures, working with physical states, change of tension, invading and escaping one’s space, and restrictions to create freedom. We will work in pairs, creating a space for a witness, a support, a director, an instigator, a shadow…

This practice has been developing through the choreographic processes linked to 3 fingers at arm’s length (2017), Curl of Hair (2021), Chasing Ghosts (2023) and In the shade (2025).

Leila McMillan's biography

Leila McMillan is an international choreographer, teacher and performer. She creates work that is high-energy, yet nuanced and abstract in its choreography, drawing on personal experiences focusing on themes of identity, gender, and the cultural interface. She was artist in residence at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) in 2017, creating 3 fingers at arm’s length. She’s a twice nominee for ‘outstanding choreography’ at Hong Kong Dance Alliance awards in 2018 and 2024. Her full-length work Family Portrait, 2015, was presented throughout the UK; digital work Curl of Hair, 2021, is an intimate duet stemming from personal trauma working with a multidisciplinary team; new work In the shade works with intimacy through the lens of jiu jitsu. She was supported under the Sadlers Wells Artist Development Programme in 2015. As a performer in Transitions Dance Company, she worked with Crystal Pite and Thomas Lehmen; independently she worked with artists including David Zambrano, Vicky Amedume, Jasmina Krizaj, and Nina Fajdiga. She developed CollabAsia a choreographic exchange project, co-choreographed Without the sun w/Na-ye Kim for 27 dancers touring to Hong Kong and Korea. She was part of the interdisciplinary creative team developing Minimax modular theatre at Clockenflap Music Festival 2025.

Since receiving a place on Zambrano’s 50 days flying low and passing through, 2010, she is one of the international artists teaching this technique and has led the development of this approach in the UK and recently brought it to Hong Kong. Leila is the founder of Soft Lock, new duo improvisation method created from her current artistic practice. She is currently the Head of Contemporary Dance at HKAPA in Hong Kong, was Senior Lecturer from 2020-2025, lecturer at London Contemporary Dance School 2014-2020, and has taught throughout Europe, Middle East, Asia, New Zealand, United States, and South America. In 2012-2020, she was co-founder & director of Muxima, an independent cafe in Bow, East London, awarded best cafe in East London several times, bringing art and culture to the local community. She's currently a blue belt in jiu jitsu, training under Fabio Lim/Tempo Jiu Jitsu in Hong Kong and regularly competes in Asia.

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Sconti*

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    15%
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    20%
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    15%

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