PROJECT // métamorphose
KAREN FENNELL
PROJECT // I Want to be Alone but We’re in This Together
VICTORIA MACKENZIE
PROJECT // yet-to-be
ADDENDUM
PROJECT // Addendum Actions Criticality with Care (AACC)
BE HEINTZMAN HOPE
PROJECT // 𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔬 4 𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔬
LUCY M. MAY
PROJECT // The Conditions (working title)
IN STUDIO: VICTORIA MACKENZIE (MTL) — Integrating Floor
** FULL ** June 14 to 18, 2021
ONLINE: keyon gaskin (US) — self-memorialization and other impermanence engagement
** FULL ** May 17 to 21, 2021
IN STUDIO: MOHAMMADREZA AKRAMI (MTL) — Butoh & Noguchi Taiso
** FULL ** June 7 to 11, 2021
IN STUDIO: KELLY KEENAN (MTL) — Feeling Dancing
** FULL ** May 10 to 14, 2021
ONLINE: JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO (US) — The Transgressive Body Workshop
** FULL ** May 3 to 7, 2021
IN STUDIO: CHRISTOPHER WILLES (TOR/MTL) — Imageless
** FULL ** June 21 to 23, 2021
IN STUDIO: LAURA TOMA (MTL) — Gaga/Dancers
** FULL ** June 7 to 11, 2021
IN STUDIO : NANCY LAVOIE (MTL) — Sound games & the art of musical communication
April 12 to 16, 2021
IN STUDIO: STÉPHANE CRÊTE (QC) — Comfort in Discomfort
Feb. 22 to 26, 2021
IN STUDIO: SYLVIE FORTIN (MTL) — Looking for blind spots in somatics
** FULL ** April 26 to 30, 2021
ONLINE: 7STARR (MTL) — Krump – Think’n’Do
Feb. 15 to 19 2021
IN STUDIO: LARA OUNDJIAN (MTL) — Haptic Dances
Mar. 8 to 12, 2021
ONLINE : LINDA RABIN (MTL) — Continuum: explore the unexplored within
** FULL ** Jan. 18 to 22, 2021
ONLINE: Income Tax Lab with Leni Petoussis and Lauren Semeschuk
Feb. 22 and 25, 2021
IN STUDIO: ANDRÉANE LECLERC (MTL) — Contorsion: opening, amplitude and backbone movement
** FULL ** Dec. 14 to Dec. 18, 2020
ONLINE: ANGE LOFT (TO) — Talking Treaties
Dec. 7 to 11, 2020
ONLINE: BE HEINTZMAN HOPE (NYC) — Recreating Ritual: a movement workshop for pandemic circumstances
** FULL ** Feb. 8 to 12, 2021
ONLINE: AXELLE MUNEZERO (MTL) — Approaching Creation with Whacking
Nov. 23 to 27, 2020
PAUL IBEY (MTL) — Butoh
** FULL ** Oct. 5 to 9, 2020
** FULL ** Oct. 5 to 9, 2020
ONLINE: DAINA ASHBEE (MTL) — Embodied Creativity and Choreography
** FULL ** Nov. 9 to 13, 2020
Syllabus for Black Love: a kiki with Jaamil Olawale Kosoko as J-Lov, Dana Michel and Ravyn Wngz
Thursday, May 13th, 2021
ONLINE: NULLO FACCHINI (DK/IT) — Creating transformative encounters
** FULL ** Nov. 2 to 6, 2020
ONLINE: AMI SHULMAN (MTL) — Reclaiming the Self
** FULL ** Sept. 29 to 2 Oct., 2020
SUSANNA HOOD (MTL) — Open Source Forms with Improvisation and Creative Process
Sept. 21 to 25, 2020
ALANNA KRAAIJEVELD (MTL) — Inspire by Fighting Monkey
** FULL ** Sept. 14 to 18, 2020
Curators-in-Residence
As part of the Curator-in-Residence program, Studio 303 invites Burcu Emeç and Christopher Willes to design an event whose form will be revealed during the season. The floor is theirs:
“What would it look like to build a practice of making our sources known? Working for the first time together, we propose a co-research process exploring notions of embodied citation, transmission, and distributed authorship within performance practice. Through a series of events at Studio 303 we will host a space to consider different conceptions of citation within performance making–– not only as an ethical concern, but as an ongoing and embodied practice with both aesthetic and political implications.
We’re asking: How do we care for the presence of other people’s work within our own? What new meanings and ways of living arise when sources are made explicit? What new conceptions of community, ensemble and relation emerge when working methodologies are focused on caring for how knowledge is transmitted from person to person? How do performance practices trouble notions of ownership? How do legal frameworks such as Canadian Intellectual Property Law address these issues and what are their limits? How do these imperatives change when working collectively, vs “in collaboration” or even “alone”? How do they change when considering the non-visual and intangible art forms within performance works (such as music or theory)? How does one honour the presence of those not physically present in our work?
Subjects we are currently exploring include: embodied forms of citation, performance as genealogical garden making, citing the non-visual and intangible on stage, current Canadian intellectual property law (as a limited framework), citation within workshops and artistic-research / pedagogical context.”
– Burcu Emeç and Christopher Willes, Studio 303 2020-21 Curators-in-Residence
Biographies
Burcu is practicing care, political action and rigorous curiosity. She makes performances, writes, directs and organizes. Her approach blends social commentary, active listening, improvisation and visual art, often shifting between the highly poetic and unbearably banal, the sensorial and methodical. Recent research has been focussed on emotional vulnerability, immigrant and diasporic identities, codes of performance, and tensions between language and image. She is also a cultural worker, and a coordinator at the artist-run centre articule in Montreal.
Christopher is a multidisciplinary artist and dance dramaturge based in Toronto and Montreal. Moving between communities and frameworks of experimental music/sound, dance, and visual art forms, his work focuses on the subject of listening as an inherently interdisciplinary, embodied and situated practice. His current research interests include approaches to group processes and distributed authorship, as well as psychoacoustics and the corporeality of sound. He also works as part of a team that co-leads Public Recordings, a Toronto based organization focused on interdisciplinary performance research.
GUILLAUME VALLÉ & CALLA DUROSE-MOYA
PROJECT // Pas d’apparat corps
Curator-in-Residence: Remote Readings
Sunday, June 20th, 2021 + Saturday, July 24th, 2021 + Saturday, August 28th, 2021, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
At Jarry park
work in progress – a public discussion
Wednesday, September 8th, 2021 – 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom
MARIE-REINE KABASHA
PROJECT // Trigger point
Queer Performance Camp 2022
February 3rd to 13th, 2022
MICHAEL MARTINI & JACQUELINE VAN DE GEER
PROJECT // 3 Sisters
MONA EL HUSSEINI
PROJECT // Creatrix
SYDNEY MCMANUS & JEAN BUI
PROJECT // “1, 2, maybe 3”
HTMlles / Pas d’apparat corps
Thursday, October 14th, 2021 , from 7 to 8 p.m.
ONLINE: Filmed performance + discussion
Queer Performance Camp
Online
TOLLÉ / Up is Down & Tout fout le camp
Saturday, December 5th, 2020
Happening sporadically here and there
Georges-Nicolas Tremblay
Queer Performance Camp 2020
Impossible REMIX
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 at 6 p.m. @ Studio 303
Performative Discussion: burn-out
Friday, November 15th, 2019 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. @ Studio 303 – FREE
CABARET TOLLÉ / Eternal Saturnalia
Saturday, November 30th, 2019 from 7 p.m.
@ Studio 303
ANDREW HARWOOD (MTL) — INSTANT INSTINCT – ENTERING THE INTUITIVE ARENA OF THE UNKNOWN
March 1 to 5, 2021 – 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Mon.-Fri.)
$___ with the support of *Emploi-Québec (or $_____, non-eligible rate)
$____ drop-ins Mon.-Tue. unless full (or $____, non-eligible rate)
Open to artists of all disciplines / In [LANGUAGE]
Capacity: _ people, priority for full week attendance
This workshop invites us to honor our essence and become the masters of what we know and what we do. Each session serves to create containers for focused investigation, encouraging each person to engage in the dynamics of self-care and empathy for others. Working with the innate intelligence of the body and a curiosity for the unfolding moment, we behold and are with that which wants to emerge instinctively. An assortment of playful & artistic dance scores will allow us to play lightly/seriously with our know-how, our how-to-be and our not-knowing. These spontaneous movement structures will help us focus our attention, develop an awareness of inner/outer space, awaken our senses, harness our inventiveness, create familiarity, dig in to what is actually happening and stimulate our imagination as we improvise alone, in pairs and trios, in small groups and as one large ensemble. This will be a mixed level class, open to all levels of experience.
Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood (Montreal) is an internationally recognized pioneer and master teacher of contact improvisation and real time composition. He began his dance career in 1975 and for over forty-five years has dedicated himself to the research, education, development and dissemination of contact improvisation and compositional improvisation as sophisticated movement disciplines and performing art forms.He studied and performed with the founders of CI Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little. He has also performed with a host of exceptional dancers such as Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Lin Snelling, Marc Boivin, Benoit Lachambre, Kirstie Simson and Lisa Nelson. He danced for the companies of Marie Chouinard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Jo Lechay and Fulcrum, and performed with the dance collectives Discovery Bal, The Echo Case and the Improvisational Movement Fund. Passionate about teaching, he transforms his training in gymnastics, the Alexander Technique, Aikido, release technique, contemporary dance, yoga and various somatic practices into a personal language, which he has shared throughout the world since 1976. He was awarded the Canada Council’s Jacqueline Lemieux Award for artistic excellence in 2000.
Queer Performance Camp
February 1 to 16, 2020
@ Studio 303 + partner venues
QUEER PERFORMANCE CAMP
SHOWS / WORKSHOPS / RESIDENCIES
From Tuesday, August 14th 2018 to Thursday, August 23rd 2018
ONLINE: MEYTAL BLANARU (BXL) — Fathom High
May 4 to 8, 2020
ALANNA KRAAIJEVELD (MTL) — How to fail
Sept. 16 to 20, 2019
RAJNI SHAH (MTL) + KRIS GREY (NY) — Undoing Ourselves
Saturday Sept. 21, 2019
KELLY KEENAN (MTL) — Feeling Dancing
Sept. 23 to 27, 2019
NEZAKET EKICI (TUR/GER) — Food as a source of inspiration for performances
Sept. 29 to Oct. 1st, 2019
This is actively built / CanDance Creative Exchange
Queer Performance Camp 2020
BE HEINTZMAN HOPE (MTL) + COLIN SELF (NY/BER) — Wxmb Cxre + XOIR
Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, 2019
Jordan Brown
Queer Performance Camp 2020
NITA LITTLE (US) — ReWilding: a contact skills class
Oct. 7 to 11, 2019
Iqrar Rizvi aka Jubeleena Bing-Bing (the Bollywood Borg)
Queer Performance Camp 2020
ALMOG LOVEN (ISR) — Weightlessness
Oct. 14 to 18, 2019
AÏCHA BASTIEN-N’DIAYE — Metis Movement
Nov. 4 to 8, 2019
LESLIE BAKER (MTL) — The Six Viewpoints
Nov. 11 to 15, 2019
NULLO FACCHINI (DK/IT) — Creating transformative encounters
Nov. 25 to 29, 2019
ROPEWALK @ VIVA! Art Action
Friday, September 27th, 2019 at 8 p.m.
@ Ateliers Jean Brilliant (3520 St Jacques)
SARAH BILD (MTL) — Building blocks
Dec. 9 to 13, 2019
MARICO FLAKE (USA) — Memphis Jookin’
December 16-20, 2019
All Nuit Long
Saturday, February 29th 2020, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. @ Studio 303 — FREE
ANDREW TAY (MTL) — The practice party
Jan. 6 to 10, 2020
PAUL CHAMBERS [CHA collective] (MTL) — Lighting Design Lab
Jan. 6 to 10, 2020
PUBLIC RECORDINGS (TO) – What’s collective?
Jan. 13 to 17, 2020
NICOLAS CANTIN (FR) — Body/Thought/Presence: a Workshop
FULL – Jan. 18 + 19, 2020
LINDA RABIN (MTL) — Continuum: explore the unexplored within
FULL – Jan. 20 to 24, 2020
ONLINE: Income Tax Lab with Leni Petoussis and Lauren Semeschuk
May 19 and May 22
PETER JAMES (MTL) — Presence / Focus / Availability
FULL – Feb. 1st + 2nd, 2020
KEITH HENNESSY (SF) — Dancing Magic Together
Feb. 10 to 14, 2020
LAST YEARZ INTERESTING NEGRO (UK) — I have to give back all names
Feb. 3rd to 7, 2020
STÉPHANE CRÊTE (QC) — Comfort in discomfort
March 9 to 13, 2020
ANDRÉANE LECLERC (MTL) — Contortion : opening, amplitude and backbone movement
Feb. 24 to 28, 2020
KELLY KEENAN (MTL) — Feeling dancing
Sept. 10 to 14, 2018
AMELIA EHRHARDT (TO) — Ballet for freaks, queers, and somatic practitioners
Sept. 17 to 21, 2018
KEVIN O’CONNOR (US) — Scoring fascia: doing biology otherwise
Oct. 1 to 5, 2018
MARYSE ARSENEAULT
Summer 2019
SONIA BUSTOS
Summer 2019
ELLEN FUREY
Summer 2019