Summer 2019
PROJECT // My emergent choreographic practice is centered on site-specific and site-centered performance. I am fascinated by person-to-person and person-and-environment relationships, and their potential to motivate intention, movement and meaning within the dynamic structure improvisation provides. In residence at Studio 303, I will research improvisation with focused study of musicality, tasks, and relational possibilities.
I have invited Montreal-based musician, improviser, and composer Nicolas Caloia to collaborate with me in the role of artistic advisor. Yves Charuest (alto saxophone) and Maya Kuroki (voice, movement) will join me in the studio, where we will share approaches and dedicate focuses (duration, dynamic, etc.) to direct improvisation. These trials will (hopefully) reveal patterns, from which themes and tasks for movement can be defined. This project aims to define an inventory of movement tasks which will be the substance of focused improvisation for diverse performance venues.
Alanna Kraaijeveld by Jon Cleveland
BIO // Alanna Kraaijeveld is a contemporary dance artist who has been active in the milieu for 15 years. She is interested in playfulness, timing, poetry and physical rigour. She toured internationally with Dave St-Pierre, one of Canada’s sought-after choreographers, in productions Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde, and Foudres. From 2004-2008 she was a company dancer of Le Groupe Dance Lab, an international centre for choreographic research, under the direction of Order of Canada recipient Peter Boneham. Alanna is a close student of Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek, developers of Fighting Monkey Practice.
As a performer, teacher and improviser, her quixotic movement style, humour and adaptability have supported her participation in diverse and numerous collaborations. Artists and organizations include Marie Claire Forté, Modus Operandi, École supérieure d’art dramatique (Paris), Justine Chambers, Yves Charuest, Company 605, Studio 303, Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NYC), Opéra de Québec, William Parker, Susanna Hood, Louise Bédard, Frédérick Gravel, among others.
Her choreographic practice includes improvisation and site-centered performance.