THE SHIFT: Welcoming back SUSANNA HOOD
“The nature of the working process is web-like and cumulative. Each session is unique and draws on modalities of touch, deep-state imagery, alignment-focused exercises, and scores for improvisation. The sessions promote experiential learning, allowing for the timing of each individual’s process of discovery and integration, working both together and alone but in community. In this way, people of all levels of experience can explore alongside each other, tailoring the work to their individual capacities and needs.”
Susanna Hood on Open Source Forms.
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THE SHIFT: Meet the Artist: Sarah Bild
“…Montreal choreographer/performer Sarah Bild follows an intuitive stream of physical imagery to create deeply textured and organic works of dance. Her visually impressive solo and group works, presented for the last 25 years in venues and festivals across Canada, raise questions about the human presence on this planet.”
@lapoele307
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Meet the Artist: Erika Mitsuhash
“when there are dangling, low hanging trees or branches, I often will try to either position myself near it or not deny that it's there. And I’ve been finding that I love grass.”
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Meet the Artist: Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa
I love the idea of a traveling piano. So often, where I perform is limited by where you can have a piano. To put it on the back of a pickup truck and just take it along and play it wherever it can be parked is unbelievably liberating. It feels like the privilege is all mine!
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Meet the Artist: Ralph Escamillan
Jennifer Mascall is like hot sauce!
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Meet the Artist: Travis Bernhardt
Welcome Travis Bernhardt, comedian…
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Meet the Artist: Jenn Griffin
Welcoming frequent MascallDance collaborator, playwright, actor and comic, Jenn Griffin,
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Meet the Artist: Eowynn Enquist
Persistent | Unraveled | Behaved
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Meet the artist: Alexa Mardon
unrecognizable | rhythmic | tossed bones
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Meet the artist: Erika Mitsuhashi
metarealist | in-between | opaque
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FLUID CONVERSATIONS: meet our guests
We warmly welcome Fluid Conversation participants to our series.
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Karen Kurnaedy talks with us about "Our Love Affair with Dance"
“It was the Hahn sisters’ deep conviction that dance is a transformative art form which all people should experience to feel truly alive.”
Karen Kurnaedy, on teachers Gretrud and Magda Hanova
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REMEMBERING OLIVIA NEWSLETTER
Darest thou now, o soul
walk out with me toward the unknown region
where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow
lyric from
”Noah’s Ark”
by Veda Hille
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PRIVILEGE: with videographer Darryl Ahye
“I’d try to be intuitive, to feel what the dancers were doing, because sometimes I was concerned not to crash into them; but also I was trying to be as close as I can possibly get. So when they come in, I’d spring back.
But then I realized that was the very moment where I should be springing forward, and the collision would create fresh dynamic.
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Who is the upcoming workshop Ancestral Voices for?
This workshop invites anyone interested in finding their own voice.
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Conversation: RABBI DIANE ELLIOT and JENNIFER MASCALL
The song is a bridge between where we live in our everydayness and the expanded sense of self.
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2020.
It's weirdly hard to remember what was going on pre-CVD-19. Audiences said we'd done the best BLOOM residency program in our history - partnering with Talking Stick Festival to feature Indigenous dance artists. I'd just seen Olivia Olsen's superb Ahkmatova. And, inspired by work with archivist Abigail Sebaly and an invitation from Peggy Baker, I dove into two ideas I'd worked on back in the ’70s.
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