Join Bakani Pick-Up for KALANGA, an improvisation practice weaving Zimbabwean and Western dance forms. The practice works through curiosity, sensation, and action, treating space as something constantly shapable. The session invites a collective exploration of a diverse palette of what movement can be and how we can work with it—venturing into rhythm, articulation, and imagination – in ways that open questions rather than seek solutions. The aim is to prioritise diverse ways of being, resisting ‘right’ ways of being, and allowing freedom and identity to emerge in the dancing. This is an invitation to listen deeply, move boldly, and let the unknown become part of your movement vocabulary.

Richard Chappell Dance is thrilled to be working with Theatre Royal Plymouth to present this workshop for local and regionally-based dance artists in Plymouth and the South West. The workshop will be led by Bakani Pick-Up, Commissioned Artist , RCD Supporting Acts programme. For further information about Richard Chappell Dance artist development programme (commissioning, programming and mentoring) visit https://www.richardchappelldance.co.uk/artist-development.

About Bakani Pick-Up

Bakani Pick-Up (He/They) is a Zimbabwean UK-based choreographer, movement artist and Artistic Lead of Bakani Pick-Up Company. Their work explores improvisational methodologies and “Ways of Being” within performative structures. They have presented work at Vienna Secession, The Place and Institute of Contemporary Art. Bakani’s teaching spans institutions like Trinity Laban, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, National Dance Company Wales, Psoas 2 (Madrid(, Dans Atelier (Rotterdam) and Gender Bender (Bologna).

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