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Witness what happens when we go past the point of mental and physical exhaustion. Through a series of weirdo meditation techniques, rockstar ambitions and a willingness to be uncomfortable, Alicia Grant presents an endurance challenge for a constantly changing world.Concept by: Alicia Grant
Created and Performed by: Alicia Grant and Andrea Spaziani


February 16-19, 2011 at 9pm, North Chamber
Evening starts at 8pm

so fresh, so clean....

photo and design by Jeremy Mimnagh

The Toronto Dance Community Love-In is thrilled to announce it’s inaugural intensive! Summer Love-In will be held in Toronto from June 24th to July 3rd, 2011. Bringing together world-renowned dancer, pedagogue and artist, Frey Faust (USA/Berlin), Francesca Pedulla (Italy/Berlin) and two of Canada’s brightest talents, Heidi Strauss (Toronto) and Justine Chambers (Vancouver), for nine days of research, investigation and creation.

Click on the Summer Love-In 2011 tab above, for program and registration details!

Dave St-Pierre - Repertory Workshop!

presented by Series 8:08 and Harbourfront Centre

Friday, February 4^th

10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Dovercourt House Dance Ballroom
805 Dovercourt Road, 2^nd floor

$45

To Register please contact ATC Program Manager Tracey Norman – atc@series808.ca

Workshop open to professional dance artists, and dance students in a professional dance training program.

This workshop will offer a technical warm-up to participants before learning the repertoire of acclaimed choreographer Dave St. Pierre.  Rehearsal Director, Daniel Villeneuve will lead off the morning with approximately 1 hour of warm-up class.   This class will focus on simple technique, cardiovascular training, and provide a physical workout to ready the participants to dance the work of Dave St. Pierre.  This class is similar to the one Daniel gives to the dancers before each show – some are trained dancers and some not.

Following the class, two of Dave St. Pierre’s dancers, Karina Champoux and Frédéric Tavernini, will introduce participants to sections of  La Pornographie des âmes and Un peu de Tendresse (this is the work being presented this same week at Harbourfront Worldstage –see details below).  Within these sections are moments of large physicality and its opposite.  Participants will work through and gain insight into the challenging physicality, subtle shifts, and intriguing intricacies of St. Pierre’s choreography.  Participants are asked to bring running shoes and knee pads along to fully engage in the work.

The following week the Love-In is presenting a week of class with company dancer, Michael Watts. See earlier post for more details! To register for Michael's class email tolove.in@gmail.com

it won't be a party without you

BYOB Love-In at Hub 14 and Connect T.O. 
Join us for the first Love-In of 2011, a de-briefing with the ladies of Connect T.O. and the official launch of the registration for our Summer Intensive! Held the day after Connect TO wraps up we would like to encourage you to come down to celebrate and love the community and this exciting initiative.... Awwwwh. 

When: Sunday, January 16th from 5 to 7pm
Where: Hub 14, 14 Markham Street, fire escape entrance! 
This is a BYOB Love-In! We will provide party music, plastic cups and wine openers!


Connect T.O. , a four day festival dedicated to the promotion of the Toronto dance scene to the national and international art market, kicks off this Wednesday, January 12! Spearheaded by blackandblue dance projects, adelheid dance projects, hum dansoundart and Susie Burpee, the festival will include performances, studio showings, cocktail parties and a panel discussion. For a list of all the festivities check out: http://adelheid.ca/cto/connect.html

Just added: Axis and The Art of Dancing on Hands with Kira Kirsch

THE ART OF DANCING ON HANDS

February 14-18th,  10am to 12pm
Dovercourt House third floor


$60 for 5 day workshop or $15 drop in
pre registration strongly encouraged
to pre register email: tolove.in@gmail.com

Kira will be giving a five day workshop exploring entries and exits into dynamic inversions. This is not a class on how to stand on your hands for eternity but how to incorporate upside-down perspectives in your dancing with ease and momentum.
Kira is a performer/teacher/improvisor/choreographer from Berlin/Vienna who is now based in San Francisco. Kira studied at the Conservatory of Vienna, at tanzpool and received a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry for Culture to independently work with master teacher Frey Faust who developed the theroy, analysis and method called the Axis Syllabus. In the realm of improvisation she has had the luck to study with and be inspired by visionary women such as Sara Mann, Meg Stuart and Nita Little. Since 2004 she gets invited to teach technique and contact improvisation internationally at festivals, schools and universities such as ODC & CounterPULSE San Francisco, SEAD-salzburg, Orff-institute, HJS-Amsterdam, Buehnenwerkstatt Graz or Schwelle7 Berlin and was co-organizing & teaching the international annual Nomadic College for 7 years. January 2010 she became resident faculty & affiliated artist at KUNST-STOFF arts, a new space for the performing arts in San Francisco.
for more info on Kira see www.corpiliquidi.com

Workshops!!

Here is what is confirmed and coming up in January and February!  Locations are yet to be confirmed but stay posted for updates and more announcements...


To register for any of these workshops email tolove.in@gmail.com



January 17-21, 10am to 12pm 
Axis Syllabus with Kelly Keenan (Montréal)
Dovercourt House third floor- everyday except Wednesday, first floor


Pre-registration only, $60 for 5 classes
These classes are premised on the Axis Syllabus method, inspired by my recent studies on ‘Material for the Spine‘ with Steve Paxton, ‘Anatomy Trains’ with Thomas Myers and my own continued research. Training will focus on falling principles including deceleration/acceleration,reception/propulsion, sequential movement, co-ordination/rhythm, management of extremities, tensional & joint integrity. The objective is to collaborate gracefully and in good health with gravity to maximize kinetic energy, strength, flow and obtain the bliss of walking the line between control and the loss of control.

February 7-11, 10am to 12pm
DR-T (dirty) Floorwork with Michael Watts (Montréal)

Dovercourt House third floor- everyday except Wednesday, first floor

$50 for 5 classes, $12 to drop-in
Class will consist of awakening the senses, improvisation games to help open the mind/body and release work to gently warm the whole system. A series of strength and floor exercises will guide the dancers in finding their relation to the floor and gravity so that they may freely throw their body through space, dive, roll and recover. An important emphasis will be made on the use of hands to move into and out of the floor. Class will end with a combination focusing on the material learned, where dancers will be encouraged to use their raw and primal energies, animalistic qualities, and to break free of form. I AM DANCER HEAR ME ROAR!!! Knee pads are suggested!!

February 28- March 4, 10am to 12pm
Workshop with Marcela Giesche (Berlin/USA)
Dovercourt House third floor


Marcela Giesche (Berlin/USA) studied in dance and choreography at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie (Netherlands) and The Ohio State University and the where she received her BFA. She has performed her own work in the US, Netherlands, Belgium, & Norway, and has worked among others with Bianca Van Dillen/Beppie Blankert (Amsterdam), VA Wölfl (Neuer Tanz - Duesseldorf), and the Italian company Deja Donne (Simone Sandroni).


Pre-registration strongly encouraged! $50 for 5 classes, $12 to drop-in
Class is a combination of dynamic release techniques and floor work, intertwined with improvisational elements designed to open new and unexpected possibilities in the body and mind. Continuous moving, repetition, partner-work, and the use of imagery are used to bring the dancer into a state where the class becomes a journey while thoroughly warming up the physical body. Rather than focusing on specific steps we will work on finding clear geometric energy patterns running through the body, mind and space, which drive and give intention movement. A space-eating, sweeping movement phrase is what finally brings the elements of technique, performance, and improvisation together in a full bodied personal expression. Dance is what happens when we let our imagination run away with our bodies!

Toronto Loves Justine Chambers

photo by Yoann Malnati


Last week we had the pleasure of presenting a week of classes with the lovely and talented, Justine Chambers from Vancouver. The week gave me that, I love dancing feeling.... and it was kind of magical. Thanks to everyone who came out, this felt like our most successful week of classes yet. We were so happy to finish 2010 with such a great week of dancing! Stay tuned for updates for workshops coming up in 2011, the Love-In's birthday party in February and our inaugural Summer Intensive. Details to be released soon!!!


Love to you and yours and Happy Holidays.
hearts,
the Love-In team