Professional workshop
Andrew De Lotbinière Harwood – Bodies / Images / Objects in Space
15 ⇾ Sep. 19 2025 (Monday – Friday)
09:30 to 12:30
Weekly rate:$95
Not at all
Teaching Language: French & English
Questions can be asked in:
French, English
Categories
#Creative process #Interdisciplinary #Music, voice or sound #Somatic #Technique #Toolbox
#Creative process #Interdisciplinary #Music, voice or sound #Somatic #Technique #Toolbox
© Deevan Pak
Objective
An assortment of spontaneous movement structures will help us focus our attention, develop an awareness of inner/outer space, awaken our senses and harness our inventiveness. Drawing, photography, installation, creative writing, feedback, showings and discussions will complement our study.
Content
Beginning with various somatic practices, some sensorial fine-tuning and textural explorations, each class serves to create containers for focused investigation, encouraging each person to engage in the dynamics of self-care and empathy for others.
Our time together will be spent tuning and stretching our physical, perceptual and imaginative capacities. Our research will include exploring the inner-innate life of objects, the relationship between various objects in space, the compositional relationship between bodies, objects, images, and space that moves into image-making that is textural, embodied and alive.
Our time together will be spent tuning and stretching our physical, perceptual and imaginative capacities. Our research will include exploring the inner-innate life of objects, the relationship between various objects in space, the compositional relationship between bodies, objects, images, and space that moves into image-making that is textural, embodied and alive.
Workshop Rhythm
~ Adaptable to the group’s needs
Accessibility Features
~ Exercices are adaptable
~ High music or sound level
~ Physical contact between participants
~ Short verbal explications
~ Sub-groups exercices
~ Visual support (i.e.documentation, texts…)
Biography
Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood is renowned as a leading light in the field of dance improvisation. He is an internationally recognized pioneer of contact improvisation (CI) and a master teacher/performer in both real-time composition and CI. He first studied and then performed with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little, the instigators of Contact Improvisation. He has also danced for the companies of Marie Chouinard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Jo Lechay, Joint Forces and Fulcrum, as well as the improvisational dance collectives Discovery Bal, The Echo Case and The Improvisational Movement Fund. His journey has continued to evolve through the development of consciousness, various investigations of perceptual awareness, an in-depth interest in design in composition as well as an abundance of collaborative performances around the globe with the likes of Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Daniel Lepkoff, Kirstie Simpson, Alito Alessi, Karen Nelson, K.J. Holmes, Lisa Nelson, Julyen Hamilton, Benno Voorham and Benoit Lachambre, to name a few.
“Amazing composition tools, observations, you can feel that the teacher is very experienced and interested in his subject. Brings different inspirations, points of view. Relation to space, people, and objects. Developing a sense of time, visual effects, etc.” Jeimy Oriedo Quesada
Partners
This workshop is supported by the Conseil de la formation continue arts et culture de Montréal (CFC) in collaboration with Studio 303 and REPAIRE. The CFC’s continuing education activities are supported by the Intervention-Compétences program, thanks to the financial participation of the Quebec government.
