supporting artist development in contemporary dance and performance
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
INSTALLATION OPEN FOR SATURDAY 5:30-9:30 @ FRAME (318 Ross)
Peter Trosztmer
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
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).
Hello all those interested in the January workshop with Peter Trosztmer!
PLEASE READ THE NOTES BELOW.
Some notes on Peter’s interests in Winnipeg with the proposed January workshop:
——— challenging the scope of performance and audience experience with “Box Tape” project
——— “Box Tape” project involves improvised landscapes made of packing tape
——– allows for the creation of an environment made by a creative team that is then inhabited by the participants and also the audience.
IN A NUTSHELL:
——- The workshop would be a chance for Peter to work with a new creative team from Winnipeg made up of interested members of our community.
——- Workshop participants would be essential in creating this landscape over the week, and inventing different ways to work with it.
——— Ideas of performance and audience relationship would be discussed throughout the week.
—— And at the end, everyone in the workshop is involved in the performance.
AND MORE LINKS!!!!
ALSO webpage:
and and and BIO!!!!
Peter Trosztmer
After receiving his B.A. in Classics, Peter studied at the Concordia University Department of Contemporary Dance before moving to Toronto to complete the School of the Toronto Dance Theatre training program. Since then, he has distinguished himself as in interpreter of the highest caliber and has worked and continues to collaborate with many national and international choreographers. As a choreographer Peter has created five critically acclaimed solo works. His choreography was selected as a top 5 show of the year (La Presse 2006 and Voir 2012). As well he was recognized for the best performance – (The Hour 2006). His work on the multi media work Norman also received many accolades including an Angel Award at the Brighton Festival UK (2009). Peter continues to define his place as a creator who is invested in work that is sensitive, deeply researched and physically realized. Recently he was selected as one of three choreographers to participate in Triptych, a research event in partnership between Circuit-Est in Montreal, The Opera Estate in Bassano Italy, and The Dance Centre in Vancouver. Last summer he was selected for a 2 month residency at FABRIK in Potsdam. His co-authored article “Collaboration as Practice The Winding Road” was presented at the Canadian Society for Dance Scholars Conference 2012. Peter is current research includes interactive movement tracking with sound and video at La Sociéte de les arts technologiques in Montreal, with Zack Settle, he is artist in residence at Techno Lith – New City Gas in Griffintown where he is co-ordination a new group work.
———————-A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP FROM PETER:
Workshop: Box Tape…
It seems a lot like we are working with 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. I think in this way you can say we begin with architecture – we seek it out and try to experience ourselves in relation to it as we work…
I am eager to discuss contexts, strategies, concerns – so that we can build our tools and add them to our ever growing toolbox of dance and performance.
Using a shit load of clear packing tape and through a shared sense of labor, hospitality, and dance, we invite you to join as we build and dance a sculpture with 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 unfold. A sticky situation…
A social investigation
Architecture as Performance
Getting Caught
Interdisciplinary cross pollination…
Collaborative authorship …