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: 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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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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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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