Lost Dog Residencies

Join us in our home in the East Sussex countryside for an invigorating 4 days of movement and creation workshops for our Autumn Residency (Tuesday 3rd Sept - Friday 6th Sept). Set in the picturesque South Downs, the residency is an opportunity to reconnect with your own creative practice and learn from Lost Dog’s methodology.

Each day will begin with a warm-up movement class led by Lost Dog collaborator and performer, Hannah Shepherd-Hulford, setting you up perfectly for creative work in the afternoon creative workshops with Lost Dog’s Artistic Director, Ben Duke.

The afternoon creative sessions will explore some of the tasks that make up Lost Dog’s methodology with a particular emphasis on the ideas involved in our recent works Ruination and A Tale of Two Cities. We will explore the process of interweaving well known stories with your own autobiography as well as how to use voice to generate movement, managing uncertainty, creating spontaneity as well as making space for play in both rehearsal and performance. We will introduce you to a range of physical, theatrical, and vocal tasks that are the foundations of the Lost Dog devising process.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner is provided, meals are vegetarian, with vegan and gluten free options. Accommodation is available at Laughton Lodge, either in guest rooms next to the studio or camping in the Laughton fields.  Non-residential participants are also welcomed. You’ll be free to roam the Laughton Lodge grounds and even visit the horses, chickens & pig.

Open to artists of all disciplines who are interested in Lost Dog’s process.

Further info below, to book please complete our Booking Form.

Residency: Part 2 Dates & Times: Tuesday Sept 3rd 10:00 -19:00; Wednesday 4th & Thursday 5th 10:00-18:00; Friday 6th 10.00-15.30

Cost:
Package 1: Workshops + Guest Rooms
£500 includes morning class, afternoon workshops, station pick up/drop off, breakfast lunch, dinner, and accommodation in our guest rooms

Package 2: Workshops + Camping
£400 includes morning class, afternoon workshops, station pick up/drop off, breakfast lunch, dinner, and access to our camping site with your own tent (with access to indoor showers and toilets).

Package 3: Workshops + Commuting
£300 includes morning class, afternoon workshops and lunch

Travel: The nearest train stations are Uckfield & Lewes, 6 miles away from Laughton Lodge. We offer one pick up and drop off to Lewes station. Alternatively, there is free onsite parking should you wish to drive.

Accommodation: Guest Rooms are found in the Shawfield building next to the studio, toilets and showers are shared.

Camping: Laughton’s campsite is a short walk from the studio, there is a compost toilet on the campsite and you will have access to the showers and toilets inside the Shawfield building too.

Booking: Booking is done through our Google Form. Upon completion of this form, Emma (Lost Dog’s Producer) will confirm your place and request the £100 booking fee, please note your place on the Residency will not be confirmed until we have received this. The balance of the residency fee will then be due 30 days prior to the Residency start date.

Autumn Residency Booking Form

Places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis, unless you are applying for our Residency Bursaries.

If you have any queries, please contact emma@lostdogdance.co.uk

Bursaries

For the Autumn Residency we are pleased to offer a bursary space to an artist under 25. The deadline for bursary applications is Monday July 29th. We will let bursary applicants know by Friday 2nd August.

We will be prioritising bursary applicants from the South East and East Sussex in particular. The bursary application is on the final page of the Booking Form.