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Conceived and facilitated by Shannon Litzenberger with creative contributor, Marie-Josée ChartierA rare opportunity to work with two of Canada’s highly regarded dance artists and practitioners of embodied awareness.
This workshop is open to adults. No experience necessary - only an inquisitive mind, willingness to move, write and speak, curiosity and a love of fun, improvisation and laughter.
November 29, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Shared Meal
November 30, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
$125
Friday eve location provided on registration
Saturday location: Mellow Drama Studio and Theatre, 53 Victoria Crescent, 2nd floor
(re: accessibility: stairs, small washroom)
Limited enrollment, sign up now to secure your spot
Please note, the Friday evening gathering is a critical piece of our time together and the fee includes your meal. Friday night location will be provided upon registration.
Saturday workshop takes place at the new Mellow Drama Studio and Theatre.
In this workshop we will explore embodied practice, collaborative play, and improvisational strategies using movement and voice that support generative creation. We will discover ways of recognizing our default habits as artists, and cultivate practices that help us expand into new, imaginative possibilities. Working on developing our capacity for expanded attentional awareness, embodied imagination, non-verbal collaboration and embodied play will support our ability to generate creative possibilities.
Shannon Litzenberger
A choreographer, dancer, producer, director and embodiment facilitator, Shannon Litzenberger is known for creating live performance experiences at the intersection of forms. Rooted in dance, Litzenberger’s innovative collaborations come to life in conversation with theatre, literary and visual arts. Her roots in Canada’s rural prairies inspire recurring themes of connection to land, environment, belonging, identity and place. She has been an invited resident artist at Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Atlantic Ballet Theatre, Banff Centre, Saskatoon’s Remai Modern and Memorial University. She is the co-founder of the interdisciplinary Looking Glass Ensemble, and a member of the Wild Soma embodied research collective. An experienced artist facilitator, Shannon Litzenberger designs and animates workshops on movement, creation, collaboration, and leadership within artistic, educational and organizational settings. She draws from her 25+ years of experience in dance, physical theatre and interdisciplinary creation to engage participants in co-creative experiences centered in embodied and experiential learning.
“Connecting people and communities to opportunities for creative engagement with the world is an essential part of my role as an artist. Whether through a shared performance experience, participation in interactive experiences or through collective creation, I’m deeply invested in building connections between people through art, imagination and poetic expression. ” - Shannon Litzenberger
Marie-Josée Chartier
A multi-faceted artist, Marie-Josée Chartier moves easily between the worlds of dance, music, opera, and multi-media in her roles as choreographer, performer, director, vocalist, or teacher. Her
choreographic works have been presented in festivals in Canada, Europe, and Latin America and have been featured on documentary films and national television. She is the recipient of the 2015 Jacqueline Lemieux Prize and the 2001 K.M. Hunter Artist Award. She has been nominated nine times for Dora Mavor Moore Awards, having won twice, for fifty-one pieces of silver and with the Collective Urge for And By the Way, Miss. Marie-Josée has choreographed and/or directed productions with Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, The Gryphon Trio, Toca Loca, Tapestry Opera, l’Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, le Théâtre français de Toronto, and others. She is a frequent guest teacher in modern dance, movement for singers, voice exploration and improvisation in Canada and abroad. Through her company Chartier Danse, acclaimed productions include petites danses, Stria, Red Brick celebrating composer Michael J. Baker with Arraymusic, Contes pour enfants pas sages with PPS Danse, Screaming Popes with fabrik Potsdam, and Bas-Reliefs with Danse-Cité. www.mariejoseechartier.com www.chartierdanse.com
Photo by : Kevin Konnu
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
53 Victoria Cres, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5B9, Canada
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