Drift Pro Dance and Movement - Milton Keynes - Effie McGuire Ward

Join us for our second Drift Pro Dance class in Milton Keynes.

Drift Pro classes are designed for dance and movement artists including performers, creatives and teachers who have trained vocationally or are currently training vocationally and who are 18 years of age or older. The classes may be fast paced and offer physical challenges.

When booking your first class, please add the £1 new member joining fee - you only need to pay once between now and 31st August 2025.

This class will be led by the wonderful Effie McGuire Ward.

What to expect:

Effie is offering space to enter class with a mindset of being
unimpressive yet curious, across a landscape of improvised
mobilisations and structured sequences. Giving time to check in
with simplicity, and build up the technical challenge – taking the
spine through curves, tilts and spirals, and playing with sensations
which will likely include opposition, rebound, shift and suspension.
Aiming to cultivate an atmosphere of support and possibility to
energise one another as collaborators in the room.

Effie's Biography:

Effie McGuire Ward is a contemporary dance artist based in Milton
Keynes.
Her performance projects have included working with Shobana
Jeyasingh, Rosemary Lee, Stopgap Dance and Loop Dance.
Recently, Effie has been collaborating with Luminelle on Kindred -
an interactive dance experience for grown ups and their 0-5 year
olds; performing on the children’s wards at Chelsea and
Westminster hospital with Eek & Wild; and creating a duet
‘Anthology of Touches’ with Luke Birch.
Effie teaches contemporary classes for Tring Park Associates. Her
teaching and facilitation roles have included delivering classes,
workshops and residencies for Rambert, Brum Pro Class, EMDAN,
BOTH, Hull Dance, and Yorkshire Movement and Dance. Alongside
her teaching and performance work, Effie co-founded and codirected MÓTUS, a dance festival for Milton Keynes for its first five
years. This year she created a performance piece for MK’s first
Midsummer Festival collaborating with visual artist, Thomas Gray.

We are afraid that this venue is not accessible for people in wheelchairs.