TIME:
6:00 Dance class taught by Kathleen Rea
7:00 Dance Jam with live music by Kousha Nakhaei
9:00 After Jam poetry/dance performance with award winning poet Gili Haimovich
LOCATION: Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave, Toronto.
DESCRIPTION: Gili will read selected poems, accompanied by dancers Kathleen Rea, Jeff Moskal and Olivia Proudfoot who will animate her words through dance.
DANCERS AND COCREATORS: Adrian Chuquipiondo, Jeff Moskal and Olivia Proudfoot and Kathleen Rea,
CHOREOGRAPHER: Kathleen Rea
POET BIOGRAPHY: Gili Haimovich is a bilingual Israeli poet and translator with a Canadian background. She has authored six books in Hebrew and four in English, her most recent volume in English is Promised Lands (Finishing Line Press). Haimovich has won the Best Foreign Poet award at the international Italian poetry competition I colori dell'anima (2020), the Ossi di Seppia international Italian poetry competition (2019) and a grant for excellency by the Ministry of Culture of Israel (2015), among other prizes. Both of her last books in Hebrew, Landing Lights, (Orot Nechita, 2017) and Baby Girl (Tinoket, 2014), won grants from The Acum Association of Authors and her book, Reflected Like Joy (2002), won The Pais Grant for Culture. Her poems are translated into more than 30 languages including a multilingual book of her poem Note. Her work has featured in World Literature Today, Poetry International, International Poetry Review, The Literary Review of Canada, 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, Tok – Writing the New Toronto and elsewhere.
CHOREOGRAPHER 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 contact improvisation Toronto based dance company that 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 Dance Jam Guidelines which have influenced consent culture in dance community worldwide . She also founded and writes for the
Contact Improv Consent Culture Blog. Kathleen's Demo Reel
SUPPORTED BY: RDD's funders as well as the Consulate General of Israel in Toronto and Western Canada.
