Thank you to everyone who attended WOW this year. Stay tuned to our site/blog for next year's line-up and activities.

Please check-out our blog to keep track of Mascall Dance activities:
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WOW 2011

OPEN TO ALL levels of experience + interest, WOW is designed for those seeking new creative possibilities;
expand your skills while deepening your physical awareness.

Personalize your WOW!!!
We offer a variety of registration options. Please scroll down to see our Registration + Fees,
or contact: mascalldanceprojects@gmail.com


To check out our interviews w/ WOW 2011 faculty, please see Mascall Dance's blog:
news.mascalldance.ca

WOW 2011 CLASSES (August 22–28):

  • Advanced Contemporary Technique
    (M+T, 10–11:30am):
    Rob KitsosJustine A. Chambers
  • Advanced Contemporary Technique
    (w–F, 10–11:30am):
    Justine A. Chambers
  • Contact Improvisation
    (M–F, 11:45am–1:30pm):
    Yves Candau
  • Intensive Workshop
    (M–F, 2:15–5:15pm):     
    Benoît Lachambre + Su-Feh Lee
  • Weekend Workshop
    (Sa, 3:30–6:30pm; Su, 12:30–3:30pm):     
    Jennifer Mascall
  • additional activites:
    Meet 'n' Greet, Open Space, Panel Discussion, Whole Life Jam

 

All classes held at Mascall Dance:

1130 Jervis Street, Vancouver, Canada

 

ADVANCED CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUE
Mon + Tues | 10–11:30am

Instructor: Rob Kitsos

Rob's class is a culmination of several techniques compiled from his experiences as a performing artist. The warm-up is a combination of Cunningham, Limone, yoga, ballet and release technique. Rob also incorporates ideas from hip-hop, capoiera, gesture and floor work.

Rob Kitsos is an acclaimed dancer, instructor and choreographer who has appeared with dance companies from across the U.S., Asia and Europe. He has performed his own and others' works at international festivals on 4 continents, including World Expo in Lisbon, The Grec Festival in Barcelona, Palais Royale in Paris and others in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Venezuela and Hong Kong. Rob has been a member of more than 15 performing companies that cover a broad range of styles from mime to hip hop to ballet. These include Doug Elkins Dance Company, Gina Gibney Dance, Pat Graney, The Chamber Dance Company and The Berkshire Ballet. He has studied mime at Ecole Jacques Lacoq in Paris and played drums in a rock bank in popular clubs like CBGB's in NYC. In addition to choreographing and performing, Rob has been a faculty member at the University of Washington, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and, in 2004, Rob joined the faculty of Simon Fraser Universtiy as an Assistant Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts. Rob received his BA in theatre/dance from Bard College and his MFA in dance from the University of Washington.



ADVANCED CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUE
Wed, Thur + Fri | 10–11:30am

Instructor: Justine A. Chambers

With an emphasis on ease, efficiency and spatial awareness, Justine's class combines guided improvisation, release-based floor work and dynamic movement sequences to develop integrated and logical pathways for movement through the body.

 A Vancouver-based contemporary dance artist, Justine has worked with a number of choreographers nationally and abroad. She recently performed in this time, a Dora Award winning duet by Heidi Strauss. She has also been featured in the work of Julia Sasso, Darryl Tracy, Jenn Goodwin, Desrosiers Dance Theatre, Diavolo Dance Theatre, Cie Orange and Atlas Moves Watching. Justine is a much sought-after instructor of contemporary dance technique and is currently on faculty at Arts Umbrella, Harbour Dance and Modus Operandi. Her work has been presented by Series 8:08 Season Finale, Dances for a Small Stage, Dance Saskatchewan, The Dancing on the Edge Festival, New Dance Horizons and Arts Umbrella where she is artist in residence to the dance program. Chambers is currently one of three artists involved in a residency curated by Western Front New Media curator Sarah Todd with the support of The Dance Centre and The Western Front Artist Run Centre.



CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thur + Fri | 11:45am–1:30pm

Instructor: Yves Candau

As dancers we are privileged to experiences that are both holistic and multi-layered. One could say that our dances take place simultaneously in the mind, in the body and in the world. Yves’ class will draw from these complementary and interconnected points of view to explore Contact Improvisation. His teaching has also been nourished by a number of past and present practices: Vipassana meditation, Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine, and most importantly the Alexander Technique.
Internally, we will develop our awareness, clarity of intention, and refine our use of the foundations of movement in the body: such as the structural support provided by the skeleton, or the flow of muscular tone that creates movement.
Externally, we will explore and strengthen specific movement patterns, using spirals in particular to move in and out of the floor and through space, and expanding our perception and physical possibilities towards a spherical appreciation of space, where movement can take place in any direction.

Yves Candau has a background in science and was doing a PhD in Cognitive Sciences when he discovered dance. Gradually his interest shifted from the abstract to a more embodied research, which he has been passionately pursuing ever since. As a movement artist he is fascinated by how internal dynamics of mind and body give rise to manifested external movement; and aims to share his fascination with others through performance and teaching. As an interpreter Yves has worked with a number of choreographers in Toronto: Rebecca Todd, Eryn Dace Trudell, Malgorzata Nowacka, Newton Moraes, Holly Small, and most frequently Peter Chin, for whom he has had the pleasure to dance over a span of 10 years and six different pieces. Yves has taught Contact Improvisation since 2001, giving classes and workshops in France, Italy, Germany, Canada and the USA. He is also an overtone singer and a teacher of the Alexander Technique.



INTENSIVE WORKSHOP: INFLUENCE
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thur + Friday | 2:15–5:15pm

Instructors: Benoît Lachambre + Su-Feh Lee

 Recently, during Body Scan’s co-creation process, Benoît and Su-Feh developed a most singular approach to co-teaching; both protagonists orienting their teaching in accordance to eachother's terms, while keeping their stylistic and kinetic singularities.
In their intensive workshop, titled 'Influence', we will explore the junction of Lee and Lachambre's respective pedagogical methods which include visualization, body alignment and sensorial awakening through multiple body-centre motivations. We will also explore the development of a process accompanied by Qigong exercises and several other methods related to martial arts.
This rare opportunity to see, through co-teaching, reflected myriad was of relating internal and external sources will deepen our comprehension of sensations, intentions and attention to ourselves and others.

A daring and innovative artist, Benoît Lachambre has been evolving in the international dance community for more than 30 years as a choreographer, dancer, improviser and teacher. After beginning his career in jazz and modern dance with such companies as Les ballets-Jazz de Montréal, Pointépiénu and Toronto Dance Theater, he went to New York where he danced and studied with Stéphanie Skura and Nina Martin, among others. Since then he has devoted himself to an exploratory approach to movement and its sources, and to seeking authenticity of motion. Working with Meg Stuart and with the European Dance Development Centre, he has continued to explore and to research releasing techniques in his choreographic compositions, improvisation projects and with his workshops on research, improvisation and body consciousness. In 1996, Benoît Lachambre created his company Par B.L.eux: parbleux.qc.ca

 Lee Su-Feh is Artistic Director of battery opera. How this happened involved: Childrens’ Theatre with Janet Pillai, traditional Malay and contemporary dance with Marion D’Cruz in Malaysia, contemporary dance with Lari Leong in Paris, contact improvisation with Peter BIngham in Vancouver; and many years of Chinese martial arts with infuriatingly exacting teachers. Before coming to Vancouver in 1988, she lived in Paris, London, Indonesia and Malaysia. She speaks 6 languages badly. In 1998, she won the Prix de Jeune Auteur of the Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-St. Denis for her work Gecko Eats Fly. In theatre, Su-Feh has worked as a choreographer with directors Marc Diamond, Donna Spencer and most recently DD Kugler and Steven Hill. She has been nominated twice for a Jessie Award. In 1995, she co-founded battery opera with David McIntosh with whom she has been collaborating ever since she saw him lying, bleeding, in Kota Baru in 1985: batteryopera.com



WEEKEND WORKSHOP: BODY-MIND CENTERING TO EXPRESSION
Sat | 3:30–6:30 + Sun | 12:30–3:30

Instructor: Jennifer Mascall

This workshop will begin with a class using The Developmental Movement Patterns and lead to a workroom looking at ways to draw research to expression. Jennifer is currently interested in the coordination of three physical systems (the skeletal, respiratory and endocrine) to compose movement.

Presently the Artistic Director of Mascall Dance, Jennifer is a dance artist that choreographs, teaches, researches, edits and educates. The principles of Body-Mind Centering influence her work at all times. The source of dance is the study of the body; what it says and how it functions in different predicaments. 



MEET 'N' GREET POTLUCK
Sun August 21
6–8pm @ 1103, 789 Drake Street, buzz 175

OPEN TO ALL PARTICIPANTS: faculty and students will have an opportunity to meet and we will go through an overview of the week. Bring whatever dish and whomever you wish.



OPEN SPACE
Mon, Tues, Wed + Fri | 5:15–6:15pm

FREE to FULL-WEEK + INTENSIVE WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Access to studio after a long day of learning; free time to experiment with, recuperate from and digest the day's info.



PANEL DISCUSSION w/ FACULTY
Thur | 5:30–6:30pm

OPEN + FREE TO ALL: a discussion led by Jennifer Mascall w/ faculty artists



WHOLE LIFE JAM
Sat | 7-9pm

OPEN TO ALL (includes food, music, jam leader)
FREE for FULL-WEEK PARTICIPANTS
$5 suggested DONATION for ALL OTHERS 

Do not miss this rare occasion to party w/ African drummer extraordinaire ALBERT ST. ALBERT + guests

This jam is a place where everyone can share their enthusiasm for movement in a lively and warm atmosphere. It is a great way to meet people and to let loose after a full-week. With the addition of whole food and live music, we are energized the whole night through. BYOB.