



Exclusive Creative Workshops
As well as teaching a versatile range of dance genres, Lucy delivers a range of unique, cutting-edge creative dance classes and workshops to help dancers of all ages improve their artistry. These classes are prided in their applicability to all age and ability levels, as well as taking strides in providing classes that are accessible to those with physical disability and neurodivergence. The following techniques were founded by Lucy Turner, after research into psychological ways to help expand and train the brain's creativity centre:
-Conditional Choreography
-Interpretational Choreography
-Ink Blott Choreography
-Fortune Teller Choreography
-Scrabble Choreography
-Twister Choreography
-Crossword Choreography
Conditional Choreography

'Conditional Choreography' is a technique that gives dancers the power to make choices in their consumption of choreography, ultimately training their awareness of their own artistry, showing themselves and others what makes their dancing unique. Dancers will make a choice between two moves for each step of a dance routine to create their own individual pick'n'mix dance.
Interpretational Choreography

'Interpretational Choreography' is a technique that focuses on helping dancers create their own routine by interpreting solely spoken framework, urging them to find their own interpreted way of moving. This technique celebrates individuality, personalised storytelling and unique quality of movement.
(For those with auditory problems, an easy to follow written version of the class can be delivered)
Shape-Making

'Shape-Making' is a dance class comprised of a collection of exercises from a wide-range of dance genres. The workshop focuses on legibility of movement, and using the unique-ness of each dancer's body/landscape to channel individuality and visual pictures. Each human body is very different from one another's, meaning a dancer's body is ANY body : differently proportioned and able to create truly unique shapes.
Threading

Threading is a technique often used in Lucy's solo, duo, trio and group work. Threading is the exploration of the facility of a dancer's body; finding the gaps in one's landscape, and finding unique ways to fill said space. This threading workshop will focus on the individuality of opportunity to thread in one's body, as well as with a partner or group. What happens when you place one canvas next to another canvas? You create more possibilities as there is more space to paint.
Twister Choreography

'Twister Choreography' plays on the premise of the childhood game of Twister to help you generate material in contact partner work. The technique will push you to find new ways to interact with your surroundings, utilise surfaces of the body you wouldn’t normally think of using, and help you and your dance partner/s to get out of a creative rut (or stop you from getting in one in the first place!).
Ink Blott Choreography

'Ink Blott Choreography' is Lucy's brand new technique that utilises the Ink Blott / Rorschach Test from psychological theory. Dancers are encouraged to create their own movement by interpreting purely drawn images and photos. This class helps further dancers' ability to trust their creative instincts, create work and synthesise new depths of their artistry.
(For visually impaired dancers, a unique sensory version of this class can be delivered)
Fortune Teller Choreography

'Fortune Teller Choreography' is Lucy's brand new technique based on the paper origami game with the same name, predominantly popularised in children's playgrounds. The class consists of translating nostalgia into a randomised and collabortative method to create your own dance routine, along with the other students in the room. Dancers will go through rounds of the game, and assign each other movements based on their choices on their fortune teller...
(For visually impaired dancers, a unique sensory version of this class can be delivered)
Crossword Choreography

'Crossword Choreography' is a technique that helps you make decisions quickly. Begin by engaging your brain with a crossword, and allow the words and layout to dictate the content, pacing and how the movements intersect with one another. The best part is that you don’t even need to finish the crossword or get the correct words - and the choreography stems from you!
(For visually impaired dancers, a unique sensory version of this class can be delivered)
Scrabble Choreography

‘Scrabble Choreography’ is Lucy’s brand new creativity technique developed during the creation of her choreographic work ‘Don’t Wake Dad’. Students will be given a set of words in Scrabble tiles; and then tasked with creating anagrams, acronyms and other reshuffling of the words as a base of the choreography.
(For visually impaired dancers, a unique sensory version of this class can be delivered)
Freestyle / Improvisation

Improvisation is arguably the most difficult technique to master in the current dance world. So often, freestyle is an added-on afterthought in a dance class - usually instructing dancers to think on the spot during a class where they're following instructed steps. This causes high levels of stress and anxiety in dancers. How can they follow instructions, when they're being asked to dance like themselves? Lucy's improvisation workshops focus on freestyle elements that transformed Lucy from being terrified to freestyle, to her becoming Move It's Freestyle Champion. A mix of: different music and dance genres, taking away different bodily senses, using props etc. are all utilised and guided by Lucy.
Testimonials

"As someone who got to see both the behind the scenes and also experience the class (as one of the dance helpers), I really loved how naturally the class escalated through in a way that made seemingly abstract concepts very accessible for dancers of any age. There was a perfect balance of structure and freedom throughout the whole class, that pushed us all creatively but wasn't so bottomless that we felt lost without direction. I loved how Lucy broke the class in to smaller groups at the end also and genuinely was so excited and encouraging to every one that went through."
Julianna Schmaus, 21, London UK/ Canada





Student at Pineapple Dance Studios - Cierra, 32, London
Lucy's contemporary class has literally changed my perspective on the way I dance. When I tried contemporary 10 years ago, I was thrown into it with barely any technique behind it and I decided I didn't like contemporary. So I tried this class just to get out of my comfort zone and I'm so glad it did.
Immediately Lucy made me feel welcome, especially as someone who is disabled and picking up choreo is difficult for. She was able to work around my disabilities without it impeding on the class and remaining professional all the way through it. She also is the most supportive teacher. The choreo is challenging but she makes you feel like anything is possible and that you can figure it out, and she does this by challenging the way you think about your own creativity in the moves you're making. I felt like I know my own body more and how it moves thanks to this class. It's the most supportive class, but also one class that challenges the way I think about movement. It's truly a blessing to be in that class week after week.