Score to Dance Infinite Realities… is a format for self-determination.
We improvise drawing from body-based imagination and exploring hybrid practices – working from techniques and images lodged in the body. Participants are invited to work from their own personal desires, body archive and dance tradition to produce dancing that is constantly forming and reforming.
Score to Dance Infinite Realities… is a kind of rigorous attentional training.
Score to Dance Infinite Realities… activates the wandering mind to disrupt points of view, and to practice new ways of imagining, dancing and sensing the self.
We begin class with a warmup based in bio-mechanical, emotional, sensorial and metaphorical imagery.
We will follow improvisation exercises of various kinds to access as much variety in dancing as we can.
We nourish the Score to Dance Infinite Realities… by situating ourselves in a shared reality; drawing from texts, images and articles … from studio practitioners, artists, philosophers…
The Score to Dance Infinite Realities – (something about you?) is sourced from the score in Katie Ward’s choreography, Anything Whatsoever. From this starting point, Marie Claire and Katie developed this score.
Dance artist
Katie Ward works from the traditional unceded territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe nations. She draws from the inner world of the self and an experience of change connected to the world. Her works contain non-linear assemblages of forms, entities and rhythms, from score-led dance. In her work, audience-performer relationships are not static – inviting a lively spectatorship.
She has developed multiple stage dance performances, a spectator-led performance, and a radio performance. Katie offers workshops, practice sharing and mentoring situations. Katie has presented her work in the UK, France, the USA, Québec and across Canada.
With Marie Claire Forté, Katie is developing a practice sharing that actualises dancer’s ever-changing embodied imagination – for dancing that continually forms and re-forms itself. Katie holds a Master of Theatre Practices from Artez University, in Arnhem, Netherlands.