OBJECTIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis workshop proposes ways of working together and alongside each other through delicate frames of shared space and exploring weak methods, live composition, traversing the senses, somatic memory, anti-spectacle and a dramaturgy of micro-events. The direction of the time together will then emerge out of these frames.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not prescribed, nor taught\u2026 but following a clear score, the workshop unfolds through the activation of the group, the day, the mood\u2026 This together alongside emphasizes slowness and an attendance to waiting and seeing. It asks that we question our definition of what is work, or \u201cthe work\u201d, or \u201cwhat is working\u201d to make space for other temporalities or ecologies of working to arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CONTENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis workshop works against predetermined content\u2026or the idea of the leader having special mastery or knowledge. It is there to facilitate a space of how we can be together\u2026and work alongside each other as we engage in a durational scored structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will explore various activities, some predetermined and others collectively chosen: reading, writing, napping, dancing, helping\/assisting, looking out the window, rolling, making up steps (or not), following, taking things out of our bags, gossiping*, sensing\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the score, we will mostly be autonomous in our task, but we’ll also work together and alongside, as we explore or work on things we are curious about\u2026 a kind of generative co-working entity emerges…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*gossip here is taken in the positive sense, coming from practices taken up historically by womyn, where important information is shared as a form of community care…i.e. before the patriarchy made it a pejorative word.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nWorkshop Pace<\/strong><\/td>Workshop Features<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>Adaptable to the group’s needs<\/td> Visual support (i.e., documentation, texts\u2026) <\/span>Short verbal applications <\/span>Exercises are adaptable <\/span>Subgroups exercises <\/span>Physical contact between participants<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThea Patterson <\/strong>is a Tiohti:\u00e1ke\/ Mooniyang\/Montreal based choreographer, performer, and dance dramaturg. Her early choreographic works include Rhyming Couplets <\/em>(08), and A Soft Place to Fall<\/em> which was made into a BravoFact film by Mouvement Perp\u00e9tuel (06) and the dance I cannot do (2013)<\/em> which was presented at, amongst others, Movement Research-The Judson Church, and the Munich Dance Festival. An interest in collaborative models led to the co- founding of the collective The Choreographers<\/strong> (2007-2011) with Peter Trosztmer, Katie Ward, and Audr\u00e9e Juteau. From 2007 to 2015 she was dramaturg, and co-artistic director with Peter Trosztmer on seven acclaimed works, including Eesti: Myths and Machines <\/em>(2011) and #Boxtape (2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\nShe has also provided dramaturgy for several independent choreographers including Nathan Yaffe, Andrew Turner, Lois Brown, Sasha Kleinplatz, Isabel Mohn, and Katie Ward,. From 2014-16 she completed a Master\u2019s degree at DAS Choreography in Amsterdam Thea has several ongoing collaborations, in Montreal, Portugal, Edmonton, and Newfoundland. Her most recent work Un-nevering (in process) was presented at the OFFTA in 2023. She is also currently a SSHRC funded PhD candidate in Performance Studies at the University of Alberta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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REGISTRATION FORM : Thea Patterson \u2014 Alongside Together<\/h5>\n\n\n\n