Sat, February 15 2020, 10:00 AM - Sat, May 02 2020, 6:00 PM [EST]
Registration closes on - 05/02/2020
Learn Advance Table lifts with Kathleen Rea Dates: Saturday, May 2, 2020, from 2 pm to 6 pm In this four-hour workshops, you will be taught advanced low-level table-lifts by Kathleen Rea with assistant Jeff Moskal. What is Contact Dance Improvisation? Contact dance improvisation is a social dance involving touch, in which momentum between two or more people is used to create and inspire dance movements. The dance form is practiced with or without music. Techniques include rolling point of contact, balancing over a partner’s centre of gravity, following momentum, and “listening” with one’s skin surface. Contact dance improvisation is accessible to people with no previous dance training and to people with physical disabilities. Teacher- Kathleen Rea Kathleen danced with Canada's Ballet Jorgen, National Ballet of Canada & Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). Kathleen teaches Contact Dance Improvisation at George Brown Dance. She has choreographed over 40 dance works and been nominated for five DORA awards. Her film Lapinthrope, co-produced with Alec Kinnear won Gold Award at the Festival Der Nationen (Austria). Kathleen is a recipient of a K. M. Hunter Choreographic Award. She has a Master’s in Expressive Arts Therapy and is a published author (“The Healing Dance”, Charles C. Thomas). In January 2015 Kathleen became a candidate teacher of the Axis Syllabus. She is the director of REAson d’etre dance productions who produces both the Wednesday Dance Jam and the Contact Dance International Please note: To do this workshop you will need to have a partner. If we are all still on social distancing recomendations due to COVID-19 only people who have partners within their socil isolation home group can participate.Location: Zoom link will be sent out a few days before the workshop. Cost: One workshop $40 Size: Each workshop is limited to 16 people. Register: http://advancedlowtablecontactdance.eventzilla.net Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2449689258464545/ Photo: Kathleen Rea and Mica Lior by Olya Glotka
REAson d'etre dance to teach and inspire the public about contact dance improvisation, dance/theatre and the Axis Syllabus through the creation and production of classes, workshops, jams, films, performances and festivals that teach healthy body mechancis and use dance, vocalization, text and physical theatre to express the human condition.
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