4.1 Touch Technique Symbols
The symbols below represent The Vocabulary of Touch that came out of my PhD research. The symbols I drew and have provided with brief accompanying descriptions. These symbols I have shared in my teaching as resources for students, in particular in the delivery in my CI Touch Training at Tanzfabrik in 2024 and 2025.
Rosalind Holgate Smith, giving a teaching demonstration at a workshop in Dresden, 13.05.2023. Photography: Samuel Navarro
4.2 Teaching Documentation
Using the links in this paragraph you can find pdf. documentation from Teaching a week of Professional Morning Class at Independent Dance, in London in November 2023 and Teaching Documentation from my CI Touch Training in 2024, including student feedback. The CI Touch Training, I offered again in 2025 at Tanzfabrik, in Berlin, in 3 weekend a modular format, see details via this web link.
4.3 Edited Teaching Videos
Below you will find a video called Touch Techniques (4.3.1), which offers an insight into a number of the Touch Techniques I developed and taught. The Workshop I delivered on 13th May 2023 in Dresden, Germany and was filmed by Samuel Navarro, who I worked with closely in the editing process.
The Water Dance Workshop (4.3.2) video below offers insight into the development of the light touch techniques and my research and teaching across land-studio and water environments. The workshop I facilitated on 22nd October 2023, in Berlin, and was filmed by Lucía Ruiz de Teminos, and edited by myself.
4.4 Moving Landscapes was an outdoor dance workshop I facilitated between 2-5 June 2023, close to Newgale, in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The workshop I developed following a field research trip to the location between 16-23 September 2022. As a residential, retreat style workshop the program involved movement research sessions in the morning and afternoon in which I facilitated my touch techniques and was able to explore communicating my approaches for dancing outdoors with participants. Documentation from the earlier field research and information on the Moving Landscapes workshop can be found via this link. Further RAW video footage of my teaching demonstrations is accessible on OneDrive.
4.5 Light Touch Immersive Audio Guidance
In the audio recordings below, I offer guidance to embody and explore moving from the light touch techniques of soft touch and dissolving. It is suggested that a comfortable environment is prepared for listening, to lie down in at first and then move.
Dissolving, Holgate Smith featuring music by Kėkė Sol, 2024
Rest, Holgate Smith, 2022
Soft Everywhere, Holgate Smith, 2022
4.6 Podcast Recordings
The following podcast talks and interviews I reflect on my research insights, teaching and performance outcomes.
In the Technecast, I discuss what 'Deep Touch' means in my research, teaching and choreographic practice. Published 24th May 2024.
For the Touch&Play Relational Edges podcast I responded to interview about my research, my previous involvement in Touch&Play and my teaching of the Touch Vocabulary in a workshop called Touch me Maybe, programmed at a Touch&Play event in May 2025. Published 31 March, 2025