Teacher: Dana Gingras (Vancouver)
Dates: Jan 4-15 (10 days) • Mon-Fri, 10am to 12:30pm
Location : Studio 303
Cost: $125

The workshop will be presented as a series of kinetic explorations combining skills and practices of rolling, releasing, giving and supporting weight. Drawn from various systems that aim to establish connections that develop a freedom and efficiency of movement and simultaneously awaken the senses. Special attention will be paid to increase the functional capacity and articulation of the spine. Through guided improvisations participants will investigate the fluid pathways and transitions inherent in falling and recovery with emphasis on the initiation of movement and the use of momentum and gravity as a means to full-bodied, dynamic and risky dancing. Phrase work will further explore the concepts of gravity and anti-gravity while expanding the range of spatial awareness and the potential for expansiveness. Participants will engage in their own choreographic explorations to develop material integrating the physical possibilities and qualities of an unstable equilibrium with intention and presence.

In 1993, Dana Maria Gingras (with Noam Gagnon) co-founded The Holy Body Tattoo as a multi-media dance company. Since its inception, the company has toured world-wide and captured a number of significant awards and honours for both its stage and film work. In 2006 Gingras formed a satellite company Animals of Distinction, directed and choreographed two Bravo!FACT shorts: Dances for Dzama and Aurelia and created Smash Up a full evening presentation of solos and duets conceived as a collision between dance, animation and sound with animators/ programmers James Paterson and Amit Pitaru. Smash Up is a co production with the Festival Transameriques and was most recently presented in Montreal during the 2008 edition of the festival. She has taught extensively as a guest teacher over the past ten years at various festivals and institutions throughout N. America and Europe and is a certified Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis instructor. Dana is an Associate Dance Artist of Canada’s National Arts Centre. www.holybodytattoo.org

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Registration
Space is limited & reservations are recommended at 514.393.3771 or by email at info@studio303.ca. A $20 deposit is required.
RQD members are eligible for a partial reimbursement for non Emploi-Quebec workshops.

For Emploi-Quebec subsidized workshops, please contact us for eligibility requirements.

We only accept cash or cheques.
You can either mail a cheque or come and pay at our office during business hours.

Reimbursement policy
- No reimbursement for the occasional missed class.
- Sickness/ injury: total reimbursement of missed classes, including the initial deposit if none of the classes has been followed.
- Scheduling conflict: partial reimbursement (non-applicable if there is a waiting list). We keep 20% of the total price as an administration fee.
- Planned absences: possibility of a special rate.
- Other situations: evaluated on a case per case basis.

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