Sept 12-16, 2011 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $5/class, to pay on the spot. No reservations.
This class encourages the discovery of new possibilities for moving through an on-going exploration of the body’s relationship to space, gravity and itself. Beginning with a short improvisation, I will then borrow from Cunningham, Limon and release techniques to [...]
Photo : Celia Spenard-Ko
Sept 19-23, 2011 • 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Cost: $125
** Please note that this workshop is full. **
”This workshop will focus on presence, quality of presence, basically, the person in front of me. I search, explore, work from, with, for and on you. There will be free improvisations, lead with or without accessories. Focus on [...]
Sept 27-30, 2011 • varied schedule
Cost: $140 (Emploi-Québec)
Detailed schedule
Sept 27: 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Sept 28-29-30: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Informal showing on Sept 30th at 5:30 p.m. as part of la Journée de la Culture.
”Wonderful and generous teacher who wakes up authenticity and a real travel made inside!” – Jacqueline Van de Geer
This seminar/workshop [...]
Photo : Scott KligerOct 3-7, 2011 • varied schedule*
Cost: $130 (Emploi-Québec)
In collaboration with OBORO and VIVA! Art Action.
* Schedule
Oct 3-6: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Oct 7: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Informal showing
American dancer and choreographer Sara Wookey will lead an instruction of Yvonne Rainer’s seminal dance performance work Trio A (1966). Wookey, who has trained with Rainer [...]
Photo : Elena ZhukovaOct 11-14, 2011 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $60 (Emploi-Québec)
”If I had to take only one workshop, it would be that one!”
The Axis Syllabus is a trans-disciplinary research and education platform and a tool for information mining and information transmission. In a nutshell, the objective of this system is to propose a practical [...]
Oct 17-21, 2011 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
This workshop is open to all interested in moving, making work and finding clarity in directing, the workshop promises an intensive study on the direction of dance as “another language.” Directing is not choreography. Often it’s working with people to make decisions about movement, to [...]
Photo : Lissa IvyOct 24-28, 2011 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
Sara Shelton Mann has been an inspiration, a mentor and is a choreographer I have worked with over the past 10 years. Her wealth of knowledge is incredibly impressive and she is a truly original artist. I have witnessed her teach performers of all levels [...]
Photo : Benoit DhenninOct 31 – Nov 4, 2011 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
We will approach alignment from both anatomical and body-felt viewpoints. Working on the deep structural level, we move towards gaining support through muscular and skeletal connections for moving through space. Classes are designed to aid the individual in getting the most out [...]
Photo : Andrea HausmannOct 31 – Nov 5 2011 • varied schedule*
Registrations: info@raiq.ca, www.raiq.ca
Programmed by RAIQ (Regroupement des Arts Interdisciplaires du Québec)
* This workshop is cancelled. *
*Schedule
Oct 31-Nov 3, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. @ OBORO 4001 Berri #200
Nov 4-5, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ Studio 303, 372 Ste-Catherine W. #303
This workshop will teach participants to conceive [...]
Nov 7-11, 2011 • 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $90 (Emploi-Québec)
This workshop-project is oriented towards experienced dancers, performers and creators and is designed to stimulate the imagination, cultivate a strong creative eye and extend that experience into other fields of perception thus developing a fuller dancing body and a deeper performance sensibility.
How can we be [...]
Nov 14-17, 2011 • See detailed schedule
Cost: $100 (Emploi-Québec)
** THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL. **
Detailed schedule
November 14-15 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
November 16-17 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
This is a workshop about making yourself a solo. Ivo Dimchev is proposing to the participants different ways on developing a solo work. Each individual will explore [...]
Photo : Marc HoflackNov 21-25, 2011 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
* Please note that this workshop is cancelled due to a family emergency. Thank you for your understanding. *
Sarah Chase will be teaching a master class in different techniques of combining storytelling and movement. The class will begin with an extensive warm-up, designed particularly to [...]
Photo : Laura VanagsNov 28 – Dec 2, 2011 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
This workshop is designed to introduce contemporary dancers and dance movement artists to the traditional dance forms of North American Indigenous peoples. Participants will explore the use of elements such as rhythm, shape, and concept by learning basic traditional dance forms. Through [...]
Dec 5-9, 2011 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
”Bring Lois and Peggy back! They’re wonderful!”
A practical workshop designed to give performers of all types – even non-performers – the tools and toys to create solo work from the ordinary details and extra-ordinary fantasies of their lives. In a relaxed, yet structured environment, we [...]
Photo : Robert MadsenDec 12-16, 2011 • 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (includes a 30-min break)
Cost: $175 (Emploi-Québec)
* Workshop is full. *
During this class participants will explore and confront a powerful and energetic vocabulary. Movement is conceived as ‘physical action’ rather than as ‘technique’. By physically confronting the participants with this specific vocabulary, the intention is to enrich [...]
Photo : Bart GrietensJan 16-20, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
**THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL.**
Every joint of our body has its range of movement, there are countless possible combinations. The body contains a great practical knowledge far beyond what the mind is capable of processing, resulting in an ever-changing, fluid sense of orientation that can serve [...]
Jan 30 – Feb 3, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
Dance is a medium through which Africans articulate and interpret their philosophies of life. Dance is a manifestation of socio-cultural experiences shown through artistic representative movements, which are enriched by complex music systems including but not limited to intricate polyrhythmic textures and [...]
Photo : Hermon FarahiFeb 6-10, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75
** WORKSHOP FULL. **
This all-style technique class will make you move. Through exercises and choreography, center and across the floor, we will use bboying, toprocking, housing, popping, capoeira and contemporary dance techniques, to be the most versatile dancers we can be. We will explore a mix [...]
Photo : Jeremy MimnaghFeb 13-24, 2012 (2 weeks) • Mon-Fri, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $150 (Emploi-Québec)
”Susanna has an incredible way of reading the room, connecting to where people are in that very moment and helping them to just become aware of it and accept it. Thank you so much! This was a lovely, lush inner and outer [...]
Feb 27 – March 2, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
”Very present, organic teacher!” – Skidmore
”Susana Cook is incredible, inspiring, provocative, challenging and incredibly generous with ideas and support.” – Moe Clark
In this workshop, we will look at a range of writing methods and composition for performance, with an eye towards helping [...]
March 5-9, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (includes a 30-min break)
Cost: $125 (Emploi-Québec)
”Don is a fantastic teacher. It was a complete pleasure to have explored, played & discovered with him.” – Rebecca Priebe
What makes a live performance unforgettable? The distance traveled. The risks taken by the actor and the spectator. This creation/composition/performance workshop [...]
Photo : Piero PerazzoMarch 12-16, 2012 • 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Cost: $100 (Emploi-Québec) Only 5 spots left!!
The Body is a receptacle of time. Through an exploration down to a groundless stage of collective memories in our past, we can strike a vein of abundant resources, enriching the essence of our life. Yumiko helps to activate these forgotten memories [...]
Photo : Eva Wurdinger March 19-23, 2012 • Mon-Fri, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
This workshop will give participants access to an eccentric practice in queer thinking that manifests as a physically and intellectually energizing choreographic activity performed within a group.
My dear lover…
….This is a beautiful revolution…
I demand, my love….
- that straight thinking views of [...]
March 26-29, 2012 (4 days) • 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $60 (Emploi-Québec)
Gaëlle Bourges invites participants to uncover, in their way of thinking and moving, the categories built as a prerequisite for the relationship to oneself and to another – I am a man, I am a woman – categories that circumscribe a relationship with [...]
Photo : Guy L'HeureuxApril 2-5, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. (includes a 30-min break)
Cost: $180
”Very demanding and rigorous workshop but it was worth the effort.”
Martine Viale proposes a space, a laboratory where she combines her own artistic vision and the Japanese Butoh training she received from the masters Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno and Min Tanaka. [...]
April 9-13, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75
”Sarah is very enthusiastic & generous teacher. The work is amazing as an inspiration for generating ideas and stories.” – Jacqueline Van de Geer
As choreographers, we don’t often get the chance to focus on honing our tools and sharing our process with others. This workshop [...]
Photo : Ivan Gimenez CostaApril 16-27, 2012 (2 weeks) • Mon-Fri, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $150
”This was a life changing experience! Thank you!” – Bronwen Moen
Choronological Architecture refers to the choronology of supports we construct for ourselves with our bodies as we move through space. Referencing the principles of the Axis Syllabus, a training system based on [...]
Photo : Benoit DhenninApril 30 – May 4, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75
In this workshop, SRT (Skinner Releasing Technique) class will be followed by the application of its key principals to Contact Improvisation and Scores for Improvisation Performance. The imagery, music and partner graphics in SRT, cultivate creative, technical and personal process in movement. By [...]
May 7-11, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Cost: $100
The workshop will begin with a warm-up associating movements and voice. This deep energetic work will engage all of our senses and body, from the physical to the emotional to the energetic. We will connect with our organs through our fluid system, developing sensory perceptions and [...]
May 14-25, 2012 (no class on May 21) • Mon-Fri, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $200
2 techniques, 2 weeks, 2 teachers! Opened to performing artists and creators of all types, this workshop encourages body and voice’s resonance in the full expression of each participant. Our daily routine travels between the specific and the exploratory, encouraging [...]
May 28 – June 1, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75
This workshop is for every artist interested in physical theatre.
This workshop mixes traditional theatre techniques, movement improvisations (solo dance and contact dance) with theatre, movement and clown exercises. The participant will walk the limit between dance, theatre and clown. Authenticity and truth will [...]
June 4-8, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75
Authentic Movement is a practice rooted in modern dance, psychology and eastern thought that looks to the body as source and inspiration. This workshop offers an introduction to the practice as it relates to the creative process, to that part of making that requires an open, [...]
June 11-15, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75
This workshop will introduce participants to the Six Viewpoints improvisation technique, addressing essential performance concepts such as being present, active listening, spontaneity, and ensemble playing. The Six Viewpoints has become one of the leading performer training techniques in the United States. Growing out of the 1970’s [...]
Photo : David Perreault-NinacsJune 18-22, 2012 • 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $75
”This workshop provided a food of doing and discussing, giving of information, questionning and space to consider and make choices.” – Dorian Nuskind-Oder
Take an idea. Develop it. Exaggerate it. Invert it. Test it. Detest it. Listen to it. Confront it. Duplicate it. Copy/paste it. Juxtapose it. [...]
