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Fall 2024 Advanced Level Contact Improvisation ClassesREGISTER: https://events.eventzilla.net/e/fall-2024-advanced-contact-improv-with-kathleen-rea--guest-teacher-suzanne-liska-2138633109
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DESCRIPTION:
This is an intensive level of study of Contact Improvisation through the lens of the Axis Syllabus (Kathleen is a Certified Teacher of the Axis Syllabus) and the Alexander Technique (Suzanne is a Certified Alexander Technique Teacher).
LEVEL: What does advanced mean in this context? It means you are:
You are comfortable with one of the following being a flyer or basing or with both.
You have well-practiced landing pathways and reflexes that are protective if you are falling out of a lift.
You are comfortable with inversions (being upside down).
You have intermediate skill at a high and low table
Experience with studying the Axis Syllabus can contribute to an advanced level as well.
THIS EVENT IS BY APPLICATION ONLY
Please email [email protected] to apply. If you have taken this advanced series in the past then you are automatically already accepted. The application process is just for new attendees.
DATES AND TIMES:
12 Class series that occur twice a month
Saturday afternoons
Class 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Dance lab jamming 5:30 to 6:00
Dates:
Oct 5 - Kathleen Rea teaching
Oct 19 - TBA
Nov 2 - TBA
Nov 16 - TBA
Nov30 - TBA
Dec 14 - Kathleen Rea teaching
LOCATION:
Railpath Arts Centre
35 Golden Ave, Suite # 108
Toronto. M6R2J5
COST
$55 Drop-ins
$240 for the full 6-class series
$210 for the full 6-class series (sliding scale)
$180 for the full 6-class series (lower sliding scale)
People can choose "pay-at-door" through our Square reader (credit or debit). We do not accept cash.
If you need to pay in installments payment can be divided into two... just talk with Kathleen about this option.
ILLNESS PREVENTION POLICY
- There will be HEPA filter in the studio
- We ask that people wash their hands before class.
- Do not attend if you are sick
- please note this community tends to not wear masks but people are welcome to do so to protect themselves and/or others if they want or if they feel they have been exposed to illness.
TEACHER BIOGRAPHY
Kathleen Rea danced with Canada’s Ballet Jorgen, National Ballet of Canada & Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). She fell in love with contact improvisation 22 years ago & has been involved in the community ever since. She has choreographed over 40 dance works and has been nominated for 5 DORA awards. Kathleen has a learning disability which means writing takes 6 times longer than average. It is one of life’s mysteries that despite this struggle she loves writing and is a published author (The Healing Dance). She has a Master’s in Expressive Arts with a minor in Psychology. She is a certified teacher of the Axis Syllabus and Buteyko Breathing. She is the director of REAson d’etre dance, a Toronto not-for-profit dance company that is contact improvisation based and produces a weekly jam, a Film Fest, and dance theatre productions. She has autism & works to educate the world about neurodiversity. She developed the well-read REAson d’etre dance Jam Guidelines (download here) which over the past 20 years have influenced consent culture in the contact improvisation worldwide community. She also is the founder of the Contact Improv Consent Culture Blog.
Kathleen Rea's Demo Reel
GUEST TEACHER BIOGRAPHY
Suzanne Liska is a dance artist, teacher, choreographer, and researcher, and her artistic practices are shaped by her diasporic mixed-Asian Canadian cultural background and somatic dance theatre practices. She is thus committed to exploring the interrelatedness of mind, body, and identity and the role of movement in questioning, inhabiting/embodying, reimagining, and transforming intergenerational reverberations. Receiving grants and awards through York University, the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts, Suzanne’s choreographic and teaching expertise are grounded in somatic dance forms as situated within the interdisciplinary contexts of dance, theatre, and music. With a SSHRC-funded MFA in Dance Choreography, she specializes in contact and ensemble improvisation, somatics and dance kinesiology (certified Alexander Technique teacher), dance theatre, Taiko, and Butoh. She is a contract Faculty in York University’s Dance Department and George Brown College’s Theatre School. Suzanne has performed multiple roles as a company dancer, teacher, co-choreographer, and Co-production for Kathleen Rea’s company REAson d’etre dance.
PRODUCED BY:
https://reasondetre.com/
FUNDED BY:
Toronto Arts Council
Ontario Arts Council
Canadian Heritage Foundation
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Railpath Arts Centre - Rentals, 35 golden ave, suite 108,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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