Lara Oundjian – senseCore () timeForms
Sep 17 ⇾ Dec 03 2026 (Thursday)
19:30 to 21:00
Sliding scale:
- Drop-in between $10 and $20 ($15 suggested)
- 7 classes (half of the session) between $70 and $140 ($105 suggested)
- 14 classes (full session) between $140 and $280 ($210 suggested)
E-transfert
Email lara.oundjian@gmail.com
French & English
© Nina Vroeman
Objective
This is a contemporary movement improvisation class that channels the participants’ material and existential state of aliveness into dancing.
In the class we will sense into the rich inner space of our bodies, plus dynamic external inputs (sound, rhythm, touch, form, others). Through this sensing we will navigate the blurred gap between internal and external space to enter into juicy solo and relational dances. Through these dances we orchestrate an agentive relationship to time—tasting our delicious, temporary, aliveness.
Through solo, duo and group improvisations, participants will practice confident, intuitive decision making, as well as sensitive listening and responsiveness. Bring your curiosity, pleasure seeking tendencies, risk taking abilities and the soft animal of your body.
Content
The class is comprised of improvisation exercises and scores. Some scores were developed by Lara and others by artists and teachers from her dance lineage (who will be named during class.)
To dance our juicy temporary aliveness, movement exercises and scores will explore:
“Individual body” — form, sensation, imagination, intuition
“Expanded body”— touch and tactility, being witnessed and accompanied, kinaesthetic empathy
“Sound body” — movement relations with sonic texture, metered rhythm, arrhythmic time
This course is designed for amateur and professional dancers alike. Drop-ins are possible. Yet, the class materials build on themselves over time. Exercises are adaptable; consent and listening are part of the practices.
Features
Biography
Lara Oundjian is an interdisciplinary, experimental artist creating at an intersection between dance, performance and sound. Her work composes intimate or unusual encounters between bodies, or between the body, a sonic environment, and various materials (objects, text, video, or photographs). Through these movement-based dialogues, Lara aims to create openings for sensation, meaning, connection, and surprise.
Lara has presented her work at Tangente, Theatre La Chapelle, l’OFFTA, the FTA headquarters, and Summerworks. Lara has had creation residencies in Brussels, Belgium at La Bellone, and Studio 303, Usine C Third Floor Projects, La Serre, and the CCOV. Lara also has a Bachelors of Arts in Cinema Studies from McGill University, where she focused on the poetics of the body in contemporary film and photography. Her dance-based film work has been presented at the FIFA, & Christie Pitts, Insomniac and Breakthroughs Film Festivals.
Lara is of mixed Armenian diasporic, Swiss and English descent, a second generation settler on Turtle Island and currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.