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Kathleen Rea's Home Studio, (You will be given adress once you register), Toronto, Ontario, M6R 1J6, Canada.
Learn Intermediate to Advanced Level Contact Improvisation with Kathleen Rea.
Saturday mornings 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Take them all or drop in for one.
Home studio in the Roncesvalle Toronto Area
10 people max due to studio size
For each workshop - $44 (Scholareship rate is $25)
Take all the workshops or drop by for one or two
- Everyone will do a rapid test upon arrival
- Masks will be required up until June 1, 2022. After that time they will be optional.
- There will be HEPA filter at entrance an in studio
Kathleen danced with Canada’s Ballet Jorgen, National Ballet of Canada, and Tiroler Landestheater. Kathleen life’s course changed 24 years ago when she fell in love with contact improvisation and has devoted her career to this dance form ever since. She has choreographed over 50 dance-works and been nominated for 7 DORAs. Kathleen has autism and a learning disability that results in writing taking 8 times longer than average. It is a surprise and mystery for her that despite these struggles she developed a love of writing and is a published author (“The Healing Dance”). She has a master’s degree in Expressive Arts and has a passion for functional movement through her study of the Axis Syllabus. She is the director of REAson d’etre dance production, producing dance-theatre productions, Contact Dance International Film Festival, a weekly Toronto based jam, and dance classes and workshops.
WHAT IS CONTACT IMPROVISATION?
It is a dance form that is not codified and therefore not easy to define which many feel is one of its attributes.
Each person can therefore have their own definition.
"Contact Improvisation is a social dance involving touch, in which momentum between two or more people is used to create and inspire dance movements. Contact improvisation evolved from the exploration of a group of dancers in the early 1970's, including Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Danny Lepkoff, Lisa Nelson, Karen Nelson, Nita Little, Andrew Harwood, and Ray Chung. Steve Paxton brought his former training in Aikido to the form, using the idea of "surfing" momentum to communicate, dance, and express. Dancers move and "stay-with" a constantly changing physical reality. In Contact Improvisation there are no set leaders and followers as in other social dance forms. Instead of having these roles set, the role of the dancer shifts from one to the other, sometimes leading, sometimes following, and all the variations in between these two roles. The form requires deep “listening” and responding "in the moment" to one’s partner. The dance form is practiced with or without music. Techniques include rolling point of contact, balancing over a partner's centre of gravity, and "listening" with one's skin surface. While there is technique involved in the form, the aesthetic I reach for is the quality of the relationship within a dance.
The form is potentially accessible to all people, including those with no previous dance training and people with physical disabilities. I say potentially because "-isms" such as racism and ableism historically have reduced or inhibited access. The -isms that are embedded in the broader cultures in which Contact Improvisation is practiced, are acted out in Contact Improvisation communities
Kathleen Rea's Home Studio
(You will be given adress once you register), Toronto, Ontario, M6R 1J6, Canada
REAson d'etre dance productions
REAson d'etre dance productions strives to provide artistic expression through movement, inclusive of age, ability, level background. We stage and program works based on Contact Improvisation and functional movement so we can utilize the inclusiveness that can be a part of these movement forms. Our vision is for both professional dancers and everyday people to be inspired and invigorated by Contact Improvisation and functional movement.
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