Bill Wright

Immerse yourself in a world of music, dance and art-making in this class devoted to capturing - with pencil, pen and brush - dance's movement, body language, gesture, style, line, grace and energy. Our dancers - ballet, contemporary, hip-hop, Latin - work with the class performing set pieces and short routines. But they also slow their movements for us, repeat steps, freeze motion and strike characteristic poses - it's user-friendly dance for artists! Besides different dancers, we get some costume changes and even theatrical make-up - think West End dance-musicals - providing a wealth of varied subject matter. And they'll be dancing right in our art studio, so you can experiment with paint, pastel, charcoal and other materials without worrying about messing up someone's dance facility. We'll also spend time in class developing our work in various materials, looking at other artist's depictions of dance and discussing what we've done. But mostly we'll be creating drawings, illustrations and/or paintings (take your pick or do all three). Depicting the Dance is a great opportunity to fill your sketchbook, portfolio or studio walls with unique studies that can be, in turn, poetic, stylized, nostalgic, delicate, romantic, intense, dynamic, muscular, melancholy, witty, fluid or enrapturing. just as dance can be.

Who should take this course? Depicting the dance is open to all levels. Of course if you have experience in depicting people or figure drawing, you may find it easier to move into this realm. But more important than skills or training are a positive attitude, enthusiasm for the subject matter and a willingness to throw yourself into artistic effort and experimentation.

For more information about this course from the tutor, please visit http://morecourseinfo.info/courses/depicting_dance.html

Bill Wright is a practising artist and has taught drawing, illustration and design in the US and UK. He currently teaches on the illustration pathway of BA (Hons) Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins.