Butterfly Soup
Discover Ardour: Wellness, Dance, and Creativity in CardiffLike Us On Facebook
Cymraeg 
Butterfly Soup with Alys – Mar 3rd
Alys is facilitating Butterfly Soup on Monday 3 March 7-8:30pm 🦋
We’ll be investigating our connection to nature through playful exercises that allow for spontaneity, embracing failure and encouraging our imaginations to run free!
Alys is driven by the importance of play and process driven creativity in order to suspend our rigid learnt behaviours often imposed to be an ‘upstanding citizen of modern day society’, how we can become closer to our inner wilderness.
With a theatre and movement background Alys will be bringing techniques to build confidence in the use of our voices, as well as engaging in storytelling to playfully explore the boundaries between our human bodies and nature.
Inspired by queer ecology, we’ll be asking;
How did we come to be known as humans and trees as trees? What if we were less of two separate things and more of something similar?
We hope you can join us! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Butterfly Soup with Izzy – Mar 24th
Izzy is facilitating Butterfly Soup on Monday 24 March 7-8:30pm 🦋
Connect to the earth, unmask, play!
In this session, Izzy will share some of the techniques they use to unmask and connect to their playful (mischievous gremlin) side. We will be playing with clay and connection/being held by the earth.
Izzy is an arts facilitator and science communicator often talking about how queer fungi are. They’re interested in supporting people to connect to themselves and their more-than-human neighbours.
We hope you can join us! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Butterfly Soup with Jodi – Mar 17th
Jodi is facilitating Butterfly Soup on Monday 17 March 7-8:30pm 🦋
Jodi’s creative practice although multidisciplinary is very rooted in the body.
She is interested in the parallels between movement improvisation and free writing. How moving back and forth between the two can allow you to connect to your self or simply as a creative tool to distill ideas.
Any materials needed will be provided, so you just need to bring your curiosity!
We hope you can join us! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Butterfly Soup with Zosia – Feb 24th
Butterfly Soup with Zosia – Mar 10th
Fay is facilitating Butterfly Soup on Monday 10 March 7-8:30pm 🦋
How can we bring ease into not knowing? How can I be authentically myself, whilst being with another?
Fay will facilitate a session based upon somatic movement – guiding us into our bodies and senses, and open ‘movement play’ – where we access improvisation and authentic expression responding to what is present.
Focuses will be on body, space and relational awareness. This work is influenced by her training done with Joan Davis.
We hope you can join us! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
FAQ: Where is Ardour Academy located
Our address is on Wellfield Road, right in the heart of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. You can find detailed directions HERE on our website.
We are unfortunately not wheelchair accessible at the moment and working hard to change this in the future.
We do however run some of our sessions in wheelchair assessable locations, and off live streaming of some of our classes/events. Please get in touch if you wish to discuss accessibility.
*we try to make our classes as inclusive as possible so we are happy to offer hardship passes which will offer free passes to most of our classes for anyone unable to fund their classes. If you have a serious injury or disability, and wish to take part in our classes please let us know and we would be happy to offer a consultation with our director.