The SPP’s are having a fundraiser social for their trip to Canada Dance Festival next year!

Friday March 6th, 2015 at District Stop Night Club.

10 p.m. 

Tickets are $10 and available through the school office.

 

 

SEGNO

January 22-24, 8PM and January 25, 3PM

The Rachel Browne Theatre

WCD’s second show of our 50th season features two premieres! A new work by Manitoba choreographer Karen Kuzak that was originally commissioned in 2011 by performers Natasha Torres-Garner, Ali Robson and Johanna Riley is on the bill alongside a new work by Artistic Director, Brent Lott, on dancer Kayla Henry.

 

Hi Friends,

 

This is just a friendly reminder that Contemporary Dance Class for the Professional Dancer, taught by Freya Olafson, starts thisTuesday, January 20th at 9:30-11am (doors open at 9am). Check out Freya’s bio on our website.

 

Also, drop-in class cost has changed to $7/class AND you can get a class pass good for all 12 classes for only $60, which works out to be $5/class saving you $24! *You can purchase the class pass online at www.thedancepost.org*

 

Please pass the word along and help build our communities momentum!

 

Hope to see you real soon!

 

Janelle Hacault

TheDancePost.org

INSTALLATION OPEN FOR SATURDAY 5:30-9:30 @ FRAME (318 Ross)

Peter Trosztmer

With a B.A. in Classics, Peter studied Dance at Concordia U. before completing the School of TDT. – Distinguished as an interpreter of the highest caliber collaborating with many national and international choreographers. Peter has created 6 critically acclaimed solo works: and is currently Artist in Residence at Techno Lith in Griffintown

Jeremy Gordaneer

is a visual artist who has been based in Montréal since 2004. Gordaneer’s practice incorporates painting, sculpture and so forth within the visual arts. His work also crosses disciplines, exploring dance, theatre and sound. He continues to work as a scenic painter, set designer and properties builder in theatre, which further informs his individual creative practice. 

JAN 17th 

5:30PM CONTINUOUSLY until 9:30PM

@ FRAME (B Gallery)  on 318 ROSS

by $5 donation

 

— PETER TROSZTMER and Jeremy Gordaneer –– “BOX TAPE” —  

 

dance performance installation

an interactive installation

a physical experience

come create together

enjoy hospitality

………………………………………………………………..curious?

SEE LINKS BELOW
https://vimeo.com/115821395   – for trailer from last incarnation –

http://ptrosz.wordpress.com/3rd-fl-project/  – peter’s website 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RJOFQzvBb4&feature=youtu.be

PETER on “BOX TAPE”

Using a shit load of clear packing tape and through a shared sense of labor, hospitality, and dance, we invite the public to join as we build and dance a sculpture made of tape that binds together the social fabric of the performance environment. We will question the idea of ‘product’ by broadening the parameters and perception of what a performance event might look and how the interaction might unroll. A sticky situation…

A social investigation

Architecture as Performance

Getting Caught

Collaborative authorship …

box tape, a stigmergy – a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent. In that way, subsequent actions tend to reinforce and build on each other, leading to the spontaneous emergence of coherent, apparently systematic activity.

Hello YLDE-ers!

We have orchestrated two extra sessions with Peter Trosztmer for interested artists. If you are already enrolled in the full workshop, you may also attend these sessions.

Both “sessions” will be DROP-IN in nature.

10:30 am-12:30pm

January 14th (wed) & 16th (fri)

$5 per session

Location: FRAME Gallery on Ross

Check out more details about Peter and the workshop in earlier posts.

Please Please Please RSVP.

If we do not have enough interested artist, the classes will be cancelled.

Hello Fellow Yogi’s and Yogini’s,

I am offering a special yoga practice outside of the registered session. Please come and join me in this group-practice where I am on my mat with you. In this way we flow through the poses and begin to unify our breath in a way that is extraordinarily trance-like. You will feel rejuvenated and ready for the days and New Year ahead.

Tuesday, December 23rd

7-8:30pm

$15 cash or cheque

218 Roslyn Road ~ Red Brick Mansion

All Levels

Scent Free

Props provided

Audio Editing for Dancers Workshop

Instructor: Kayla Jeanson
Sunday, January 11, 2015
1pm – 3pm
$20 (no Video Pool membership required)
Video Pool Studio – Unit 300, 100 Arthur St. Winnipeg

Call 204-949-9134 ext. 1 to register

Learn the basics of digital audio editing for performance. This course is designed especially for dance teachers and choreographers looking for a fast, easy, and cheap way to cut and mix music. Software covered includes Audacity and Reaper (free downloads here: Audacity and here: Reaper ). Please bring current projects or ideas, as there will be a hands-on portion of the class.

Kayla Jeanson has been editing audio for dance classes for 15 years. She works as a video professional specializing in dance-related work. More info atwww.kaylajeanson.com

 

COMPANY LINK: Alternative Classes

 

COMPANY LINK is an organization dedicated to the Experimental Theatre and Dance artist living and working in Winnipeg. Through training, presentation, and forums we support the development of work that is driven by artistic vision and resists definition within traditional categories.

 

COMPANY LINK will be offering two Alternative Classes every Sunday from March 1st – April 26th, 2015.

 

CLASS #1 – Contact Improvisation with Ali Robson

11:30am-1:30pm ($90 for 9 Weeks)

Contact Improvisation is a partner dance form based on the physical principles of touch, momentum, shared weight, and most quintessentially – following a shared point of contact.    Through an honoring of every moment one learns to recognize and differentiate subtle impulses in our movement choices and our partner’s choices. We begin to decipher the cues that we give and receive which tell us when to lead or follow, when to go up, when to go down, where to touch, how to lift, when to slow down, and when to be still. In this form one learns to stay in integrity with each choice, never forcing, never rushing. 

Who Should Take The Class? Actors, dancers, and/or anyone interested in expanding physical range and skill. All levels are welcome.

 

CLASS #2 – Crossing the Boundaries: Image Based Improvisation with Tom Stroud

2:00pm-4:00pm ($90 for 9 Weeks)

Today performers are expected to participate in the creation of work that crosses the boundaries of theatre and dance. Yet the performers may not have the necessary training to contribute to their full potential. Through understanding the principles of performance, the development of shared language, vocal and physical exercise and improvised scores participants in this class will explore the potential of the intuitive impulse within spontaneous collective creation.   

A special discount is available for those  who have experience working with Tom in the past. 

Please contact Brittany for details.

Who Should Take This Class? Actors and dancers, performers who have completed their basic training and are interested in interdisciplinary creation, devised theatre, and/or expanding their expressive range.

 

PACKAGE DEAL (Contact Improv & Improvisation): $150

Classes will be held at The University of Winnipeg’s Asper Centre for Theatre & Film, studio 2T15.      

 

CLASS SIZES ARE LIMITED

TO REGISTER

Please contact Brittany at thiessen.brittanym@gmail.com

by no later than FEBURARY 8th, 2015.

  

BIOS 

TOM STROUD

Known for his emotionally charged choreography, Tom has been making work that combines elements of Theatre and Dance for over 30 years.  His background includes intensive studies in Acting, Dance, Voice, and Music Composition.  He has  performed and choreographed for major companies and festivals across Canada. In 1991 he was appointed as the Artistic Director of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, a position he held for fourteen years.   Tom is currently the Artistic Director of Company Link Inc., and an Associate Professor at the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg where he teaches movement and performance.   This past September Tom presented the first draft of an interdisciplinary adaptation of Jean-Paul Satre’s  No Exit  at the Asper Centre for Theatre and Film . He  is planning on presenting the final version in the spring of 2016.

 ALI ROBSON

 

Ali Robson is a dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Winnipeg.  In 2004 she began studying and performing contact improvisation with Peter Bingham of EDAM in Vancouver and since then her training has greatly informed her work in dance and theatre. She has had the opportunity to work with many artists from across Canada including Karen Kuzak, Tom Stroud, Serge Bennathan, Natasha Torres-Garner, Treasure Waddell, Delia Brett, and Ming Hon. Ali works to find ways that bodies can move efficiently, expressively and uniquely on one’s own, with partners and in and out of the floor. She has taught contact improvisation to students at the University of Winnipeg, to the public through community classes and to the professional dance communities in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Calgary and Regina.

 

 

Thursday, December 18th and Friday, December 19th, Jolene (Gearshifting Performance Works) will be teaching open class from 10:00am -11:15am

at the NAfro Studios on Pulford Street.

Class will consist of a centre contemporary technique class.

Accompanist: Ian Mikita

Feel free to share the info within the advanced/professional dance community. 

Cost is $5 per class (cash only).