Workshops

Wednesday, 22 July, 10:00 - 11:30

Making the silence seem spoken - Andrew Tay

Wild Lily Dance Centre

Using simple and repetitive movement exercises this workshop will focus on the exploration of pauses and stillness, examining how to generate movement vocabulary. We will discover how pauses can keep an audience interested in a performance, and how pauses and stillness often affect the way an audience interprets dance. The workshop aims to give movers of all kinds an awareness of musicality in their body and will offer them tools which can be beneficial in performance, in improvisation and in creation of movement.

Thursday, 23 July, 3:00 - 4:30

Improvisation in Creative Process - Susie Burpee

Wild Lily Dance Centre

Using the body as primary site for expression, this workshops explores the use of improvisation as a source for creation. There will be a physical warm-up, followed by a movement series that inspires creative physical choices. This workshop is open to all those curious about movement discovery and creative process.

Friday, 24 July, 2:30 - 4:00

Body Studies: Improvisation of Memory and Forgetting - Aimée Dawn Robinson

Wild Lily Dance Centre

This session is an investigation into dance improvisation, body memory, body forgetting, space and time. After releasing and relaxing our bodies, we will experiment with how our dancing bodies accept and respond to space, light, sounds and other bodies. By mining our physical memories while penetrating, observing and altering space, we will create mini improvised solo dances while asking the questions: how do we change our bodies, how do we change? How do we create new bodies for ourselves? No previous dance training required. We will work indoors and outdoors (please dress appropriately).

Saturday, 25 July, 10:00 - 11:30

Repertory Workshop for intermediate and professional dancers - Deborah Dunn

Cochrane St United Church

Dancers will be lead through warm-up that starts with a series of floor exercises emphasizing weight and spatial awareness. Dancers will explore extension and suspension of the limbs using choreographic phrases from Burnt Norton. Created in 2002 after Deborah completed her studies at the Trisha Brown studios in New York; the movement in Burnt Norton was influenced and inspired by Brown's airy architectural style. Musicality and phrasing will be an important part of the workshop as we set the movement specifically to the rhythm of the words in T.S. Eliot's classic poem.

Sunday, 26 July, 10:00 - 11:30

Dance technique and Repertoire - Jennifer Lynn Dick

Cochrane St United Church

Born and raised St. John's , Jennifer lynn Dick has lived in Toronto for the past 22 years. During this time she spent over a decade with Desrosiers Dance Theatre, creating new work and touring internationally. She was mentored by Robert Desrosiers, creating and choreographing her own unique works and developing an understanding of performance as a separate skill from technique or artistry. Jennifer's workshops combine a dance warm up with the skill of layering and savoring the physical understanding of movement to enhance performance - a mix of technique and fun repertory.