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| THEATRE PERFORMANCES |
| EDGE One EDGE Two EDGE Three EDGE Four Gathering Light Michelle Olson/ Raven Spirit Dance Ihtsi-pai-tapi-yopa: Essence of Life Byron Chief Moon/Coyote Arts Percussive Performance Le Retour au foret Davida Monk/M-body Prairie Davida Monk/M-body Mountain Serge Bennathan, Davida Monk/M-body MoveIt and Dusk Joe Laughlin/Joe INK Music meets Dance Co. Erasga and Ion Zoo Music Ensemble Quell Lin Snelling Remembering Room Roundtable Lin Snelling & participating artists Room Lin Snelling Schreibstuck Thomas Lehmen Sold Doubt Josh Beamish/ Move: the company Status Quo Amber Funk Barton/ Shay Kuebler The Vision Impure Noam Gagnon/ Co.Vision Selective |
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DOTE 2010 Class Schedule
Dancing on the Edge is pleased to offer classes taught by our particpating choreographers and performers.
$10 | $7 (CADA / Equity / Edge Participants)
Firehall Arts Centre Studio
280 East Cordova Street (at Gore)
Vancouver, BC V6A 1L3
To book space in the classes attendees must call the "festival hotline" at 604-689-0926.
There is a maximum of 20 per class and people can call the box office to book classes.
July 9: Class with Cory Bowles (SINS Dance)
Class DescriptionThis workshop has a strong influence of African Tradition and uses fundamentals of early black dance. Designed to use the body as a rhythmic tool, participants utilize voice and sound to create a charging connection of dance and design in a group dynamic. The class will integrates breath, flow, space, and release work; a style used in Cory’s work as a director, actor and choreographer and starts from the rule of natural movement. Referred to as Straight up Moving, the body plays a function of precision and alignment and taps into the natural rhythm skills a dancer and actor possess. Combined with early jazz, body percussion and techniques of physical theatre, it is a wide open approach to contemporary dance.
Cory Bowles originally from Truro, NS, Cory is the principle choreographer and director of the companies Verve Mwendo and Black Rabbit Films, and has created over 40 works for the stage and film. He has a strong passion for his cultural background, and finds his home in storytelling traditions of the African Diaspora. A sought after teacher and instructor, his workshops take him throughout Canada, from northern communities, to the Banff Centre for the Arts, mentoring youth and professionals alike. He is an instructor at the Bishop’s University Drama Program, and a frequent mentor and facilitator with Viewfinders International Festival for Youth, He has received a Gemini for his role of “Cory” in the hit television series Trailer Park Boys, provides the voice for the animated series Poko, and wrote and directed the award winning short film “The Scavengers” which has enjoyed screenings worldwide. He is currently in postproduction with his next short film, the Linda Joy Media Arts winning story, “Righteous”, and the development of a theatrical performance of Buck 65’s celebrated album “Secret House Against the World.
July 10: Class with Dan Safer (Witness Relocation)
Class DescriptionThis workshop is geared towards bringing the idea of dance/ choreography into direct collision with theater. How do you make work that is as much a dance as it is theater, dances that are scenes, scenes that are dances, movement that is fully inhabited and tells a story and/or creates a world? What happens when you apply choreographic principles to a dramatic scene? What happens when you apply theatrical modes to pure movement? How can you work with context and montage to invest abstraction with meaning? And how do you make sure it is all entertaining, or involving, or un ignorable?
Dan Safer (Witness Relocation) Artistic Director, originally hails from the wild suburbs of New Jersey, and has directed / choreographed / adapted every Witness Relocation show. His work has been presented all over, including Off-Broadway, La MaMa, Dance Theater Workshop (four consecutive seasons), The Ontological Theater, Patravadi Theatre (Bangkok), Theater Krudttonden (Denmark), the CUNY Prelude Festival, Dixon Place, Danspace Project; he has choreographed operas, rock videos and fashion shows, and wrote a seven episode serial play with Pulitzer winner David Lindsay-Abaire. Performer with Ridge Theater, Jane Comfort, John Moran, Mabou Mines, the Blacklips Performance Cult, Hong Kong choreographer Dick Wong, and others. He founded and directed the Bangkok Performance Boot Camp, is faculty at NYU, and teaches workshops across the US and Internationally. He was a 2007- 9 recipient of the Six Points Fellowship (Performance) from the Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the winner of two NY Innovative Theater Awards. Artforum Magazine called him "pure expressionistic danger". He used to be a go-go dancer, and once choreographed the Queen of Thailands Birthday Party.
July 11: Class with Malgorzata Nowacka (The Chimera Project)
Class Description
Part 1: Warm-upA series of floor exercises specifically designed to prepare the body for high impact dancing that evolved from a fusion of strength training, Pilates and Ginette Hamel’s Stability with Mobility theories. The warm-up focuses on functional alignment and core strength with the goal of being connected and warm, but not tired and sweaty.
Part 2: Repertoire
Using two sections from The Chimera Project’s current repertoire we will explore explosive athleticism coupled with strong individual interpretation. The movement material stems from in-studio explorations with the company’s dancers, who contribute their diverse training and artistic experiences, and is shaped is by the vision of the Artistic Director. This is where not being tired and sweaty before is very helpful
Malgorzata Nowacka has been named as one of the top Canadian contemporary choreographers in FASHION magazine in August 2009, and under her creative leadership The Chimera Project has been featured in some of prestigious contexts, including Canada’s most prestigious contexts, the Canada Dance Festival (National Arts Center, Ottawa) DanceWorks Mainstage Series (Toronto), Dance Victoria (Victoria) and Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver).
July 12: CANCELLED
July 13: Class with Martin Inthamoussú
Technique in movement workshopAims: The idea is to offer practical classes on contemporary dance technique. To be expressive dancers bodies must be trained and articulated as a Basic working tool. Through these classes a Basic training is offered in which he/she can develop a technical and performance work at the same time.
Modality: The class will start with yoga and Pilates warm up and stretching exercises developing concepts that help to free a natural and creative movement. Techniques such as release technique, floor work, flying low will be studied in the classes. Strength, alignment, coordination, musicality, space, focus and anatomy will also be studied.
Technique in movement: It is the application to different ways of moving and principles for the development of new dance. We will work on different scenic skills from an anatomical and functional point of view. Body awareness Hill be of major importance in the formal understanding of choreographic phrases. All this work Hill be done in relation with the music, silence, space and time. The aim is the development of these physical abilities and functional body awareness and the skeleton.
Physical Condition: The aims of this part of the class will deal with coordination, stamina, strength, and anatomic learning. Focused on the use of the skeleton and muscles we will work on repetitions and organically structured movement. At the same time we will look for a rising of cardio rhythm to generate conditions for a complete physical condition.
Martin Inthamoussú is a dancer and choreographer from Uruguay. He studied at the National Ballet School and Montevideo Ballet Studio in Uruguay and as a guest student at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in The Netherlands. He has studied with teachers such as Julyen Hamilton, David Zambrano, Deborah Hay, Iñaki Azpillaga, Mathilde Monnier, Alito Alessi, Nita Little, Wendy Houstoun, Mark Tompkins, Nigel Charnock, Juan Kruz Díaz and Benoit Lachambre among others.
As a choreographer he has got prizes and scholarships in his home country and abroad. He has been awarded the danceWEB Europe scholarship twice in Vienna and the siwic programme in Zürich. . He has been awarded the prize as Best Director 2005 in Uruguay. He has been artist in residence in Djerassi Arts Centre in San Francisco (USA) and in Theater im Ballsaal (Germany). He has been selected for DANCEOMI in New York (2010). He has performed in Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Spain, Holland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Uruguay, USA, Canada and the UK. He has choreographed for the National Ballet in Uruguay, Agente Libre in Venezuela and Cia Nómada in Tenerife. As a teacher he has worked in universities in Venezuela, Mexico Spain and Germany as well as in private institutes in Latin America and Europe.He has published articles on dance theory in Uruguay, Venezuela and Spain. He has been invited as dramaturgy advisor for the Ballet at the Opera House in Bonn.Currently he is artistic director of Montevideo Sitiada, a dance festival in Montevideo and works as a freelance choreographer and performer with different companies in Europe and South America. He is part of the Performance Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.
July 14:
Class with Davida Monk (M-body)
Class contents
In addition to emphasizing my choreographic sensibilities, musicality, expression and performance, dancers in my technique classes will experience three major influences:
- 10 years of study with Peter Boneham, the Artistic Director of Le Groupe Dance Lab, whose own background is with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and the American Ballet Theatre
- The Mitzvah Technique, a dynamic extension of the Alexander Technique, sharing an emphasis on the primary function of the free head balanced on the spine, and accessing groundedness, expansion and fluidity
- The principles of athletic centering and power
I begin class with spontaneously conceived, simple motifs that introduce movement ideas and warm-up the body/mind. Proceeding through relatively more complex choreographed warm-up patterns focused on a variety of challenges, the class follows a conventional trajectory. From pliers to tondue, degage, ronde de jambe, attitude brush, to movement through space and at various levels, jumps and adagio, the class is comprised of choreographed phrases that explore the elements of technical vocabulary in a contemporary aesthetic, emphasizing the dancers’ use of flow, attack, precision and release.
Davida Monk is a dance artist, choreographer and teacher. She began her career with Le Groupe de la Place Royale of Ottawa and was instrumental in the development of Le Groupe Dance Lab. Monk’s works have been seen in cities across Canada and in Europe. For 15 years Monk was Associate Professor in the Program of Dance at the University of Calgary. Recently Monk has begun work on The Land Quartet, a three-year creative project with five dancers and video, with the generous support of the Canada Council and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She is the Artistic Director of the Calgary dance company M-Body: mind and music in motion, and Artistic Director of Calgary’s contemporary dance presentation and professional development organization Dancers’ Studio West.July 15:
Class with Andrea Nann (Dreamwalker Dance)
Led by artistic director Andrea Nann, Dreamwalker Dance Company celebrates the transcendent qualities of dance as a means of communication while recognizing the inherently collaborative nature of the art form. Works in the company repertoire are created with dancers, writers, poets, songwriters, illustrators, filmmakers, sculptors, painters, calligraphers, potters, composers, digital media artsts, lighting designers, costume designers, theatre directors and musicians who come together in various configurations to explore and share human experiences.
ANDDC actively reaches out to diverse community groups through workshops instructional master classes, mentoring and cultural exchanges. By bringing artistic excellence to the public together in the studio, on the stage, and in the classroom, ANDDC actively seeks to create and sustain an appreciation and integration of arts and culture in our community. Please visit our website at www.dreamwalkerdance.com for more information.
July 16:
Class with Roger Sinha (Sinha Danse)
ROGER SINHA Contemporary dance techniqueCombining Contemporary dance with Indian dance
The purpose of the workshop is to permit the student to integrate elements of Indian dance and contemporary dance. The contemporary dance technique includes the movements of the torso, the hips leg extensions jumps and turns.
The Indian dance technique puts the accent on the mudras (gestures that include the detailed articulation of the fingers the hands and the arms) and the movements where the dances create rhythms with their feet by striking the floor.
The students will develop a sense of precision by working with the mudras. These gestures and positions of the hands combined with the movements of contemporary dance will allow them to find new ways of co-ordinating movements between those that are precise and delicate and the full body movements of contemporary dance. The rhythmical movements will allow the dancer to have a greater sense of rhythm.
A unique section of the class is dedicated to working with the striking of the floor, specifically Indian rhythms that do not follow the western musical norms but rather working with 3,5,7 and 9.
Roger Sinha was born in England of an Armenian mother and an Indian father. In his work he explores themes of cultural dissonance and tensions created by the collision of East and West. Exploring his origins he uses tradition for a contemporary expression of his reality. Besides creating for Sinha Danse he co-choreographed, with Sandra Laronde, Tono. This work by Red Sky has been presented in both the summer Olympics in Beijing the winter Olympics in Vancouver and was invited to perform at the Canadian Pavilion in Shanghai in May 2010. Besides being a Choreographer he is also a filmmaker and his dance video Hater ‘n Baiters won the popular vote for the Radio Canada International Roots competition in April 2010.
PRE AND POST SHOW CHATS
Before and after select performances join dance scholars,
choreographers and journalists to discuss the work and provide insight
into the vision behind its creation. Call the Festival Hot
line to find out more.
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