Wednesday — 6 pm to 7:30 pm
SPRING: April 10 to June 19, 2024
$30 per class
$275 for full session (11 classes)
Class in French
REGISTRATION > piloup@videotron.ca
Mask recommended – please consult Studio 303’s COVID-19 Protocol for further information.
CONTENT
Physical and vocal work that turns the body into a research laboratory for ideas in motion. Performance art, expression and identity are at the heart of his preoccupations. Since his early days in dance, Louis has enjoyed transgressing aestheticism, content and form, liberating projection in the form of slow, dynamic and sensory exercises, yoga, pilates, contact-improvisation, carrying techniques and game systems.
Creation: I’m building a choreographic system, a journey, that I call Imprographie. It’s based on the participants’ mastery of what they’ve learned and how they try to find their place in it. I appeal to the manifestation of identity and authentic experience.
ACCESSIBILITY
My classes are for people who want to develop and enhance their physical connection with themselves and others.
I use the elementary principles of contact-improvisation in the physical relationship with others, such as: the Art of touching, pushing, pulling, resisting, supporting, brushing. Learning to express and manage limits, apprehensions and physical/social distancing. All within a framework of respect for oneself and others, in a quest for self-improvement, freedom, equality and authenticity.
BIOGRAPHY
Louis Guillemette has been working in the performing arts, film and video as a performer, choreographer, improviser, teacher, artistic advisor and designer for 40 years. His work has been presented around the world and he has collaborated with many international artists. He teaches a personal technical and creative approach in public and private institutions at home and abroad. His singular vision has led him, among other things, to co-found the performance space Tangente, to dance with LALALA Human Steps, to collaborate with Margie Gillis, etc., and regularly with visual artist Zilon on unusual performances. He has worked for Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Éloize, and taught at the National Circus School and Concordia University for 25 years. He has been teaching his personal approach to Dance & Creation at Studio 303 for over 25 years.
Evening classes are open to all levels, and it is recommended to register in advance for one or multiple classes.
Registration is done directly with the teachers, please contact them if you need additional information.