Pushing Boundaries: GILA Method — Experienced Movers Edition culminates in informal sharing and conversation with Galit Liss

Friday 21 August 2026 | 2.30pm | DanceEast | Free, registration required

EncoreEast invite audiences to an informal performance sharing and conversation with internationally renowned choreographer and teacher Galit Liss, following a four-day intensive exploring the creative potential of the mature body.

On Friday 21 August at 2.30pm, audiences will have the opportunity to experience an informal sharing from Pushing Boundaries: GILA Method – Experienced Movers Edition, followed by a conversation with Galit Liss. The event will last approximately 50 minutes and is free to attend, with registration required.

The sharing is the culmination of a four-day laboratory bringing together 25 experienced movers aged 50+ to investigate the relationship between body, space and performative presence through the GILA Method.

Founded and developed by Galit Liss over the past 17 years, the GILA Method is a unique movement practice centred on the distinctive physiological aesthetics of the mature body. Through somatic work, improvisation, imagery, sensory awareness and movement research, participants are invited to explore their individual movement qualities and develop a unique movement portrait.

At the heart of the practice is a challenge to conventional perceptions of ageing and the performing body. Rather than treating ageing as something to conceal or overcome, Liss’s work asks what can emerge when the older body itself becomes the starting point for artistic research and expression.

The Pushing Boundaries intensive is part of EncoreEast’s ongoing commitment to creative, artistic and performance innovation with older dancers. As a performance company of older dancers, EncoreEast works with professional artists to develop new work, deepen artistic practice and generate new understandings about dance and older people.

The organisation is committed to presenting positive images of age and blurring the boundaries between professional and community practice. EncoreEast contributes to a growing national conversation around the opportunities and challenges facing older dancers.

Galit Liss is an independent choreographer and teacher and founder and artistic director of the Gila School of Movement and Stage Art. Her artistic and social practice challenges stereotypes around ageing and contemporary dance, creating artistic space for ageing women and exploring the possibilities of self-realisation and creative development in the older body.

The informal sharing provides audiences with a rare opportunity to encounter the GILA Method in practice and to hear directly from Galit Liss about her approach to movement, ageing and artistic expression.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1997594732619?aff=oddtdtcreator