Interest Group Workshop: Postgraduate Neurodivergent Creatives

Touch, Then Elsewhere

Neurodivergent-informed movement research workshop.

Date: Tuesday, 27 October 2026

Time: 17:30–19:45

Location: UAL, Room HH203

Organised by: UAL Post-Grad Community Neurodivergent Creatives Interest Group

Facilitated by: Attila Andrási, leader of the UAL Post-Grad Community Neurodivergent Creatives Interest Group

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Touch, Then Elsewhere is a shared movement exploration of touch and wandering attention.

Holding a small ball, we will notice its weight, texture and movement while allowing attention to travel through sensation, thought and imagination. The ball can become a temporary point of return: an anchor in the hands as attention moves elsewhere.

Attila will offer a simple score for exploring. Each person can follow it in their own way, bringing their attention and movement into a shared space. No dance or movement experience is needed.

Together, we will explore how ways of attending often described as “deficits” might become resources for movement and discovery. You are welcome to participate at your own pace, adapt the exploration, take breaks or observe.

Timetable

17:30 — Arrival

17:45–18:45 — Shared movement exploration

18:45–19:30 — Sharing, discussion and reflection

19:30–19:45 — Informal closing and departure

About Neurodivergent Creatives Interest Group

The Neurodivergent Creatives Interest Group (NCIG) is a cross-disciplinary space for artists, researchers and practitioners interested in how neurodivergent ways of sensing, attending, thinking and working can inform creative practice.Find out more.

About Attila

Attila Andrási (he/they) is a Hungarian-born, London-based choreographer, dance artist, educator and practice-based PhD researcher at the University of the Arts London.

His work brings attention, play and embodied imagination into performance, installation and participatory practice. He explores how perception and atmosphere shape movement, and how neurodivergent attention can open new choreographic possibilities.

His PhD research focuses on choreographic conditions as a way to test the emergence of minor gestures.

Website: www.attilaandrasi.com

Instagram: @attila_andrasi_

Image Credit: Natasha Frater dance painting Ⓒ William Rowsell 2022