Workshop: Fighting Monkey Practice with Alanna Kraaijeveld
Fighting Monkey Practice with Alanna Kraaijeveld
Focus: FM body / body
Monday May 13 – Friday May 17, 2024
10am to 12pm daily
Espace 215
215 Jean Talon West, 3rd floor
This workshop is open to professional artists, pre-professionals and curious movers and shakers. Everyone is welcome.
Corps / Corps is an aspect of FM that explores the tolerance of joints to stress, and the flexibility of our ways of acting in relation to a partner. It consists of a dance-based task or connection point (e.g. intertwined fingers, hand to foot, etc.), performed in contact with other participants.
In addition, we will explore the quality of our movement and listening through encounters with
– Joint movements
– Coordination
– Improvisation
– Movement scenarios (with practice ball or martial arts belt)
The aim is to increase our physical capacity, nourish our elasticity, let go of tension, move and explore with greater awareness of how contexts energize and liberate our capacities.
125 for full workshop or $30 per day
Registration required
https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/616808f2-a14…
ACCESSIBILITY
The workshop is in English and French
Espace 215 is equipped with a wood floor. The studio is located on the third floor, accessible by stairs.
The sessions are composed of :
Joint movements
– Standing, on the spot, focused on spiral movements
– Continuous demonstration style that participants follow
Coordination
– exploring the quality of mobility of our joints through multi-plane and multi-joint coordination patterns that dance through space
– Continuous demonstration style that participants follow
Improvisation
– Individual exploration of qualitative and task-based improvisations
– Demonstration and voice provide visual and verbal cues, after which it’s up to participants to manifest each proposal
– We take our time with each proposal
– Work is performed both standing and on the floor, and can be adapted as required.
Body / Corps
– working in contact with a partner
– dances based on tasks or connection points are set in motion verbally and by demonstration
Movement scenarios
– task-based dances with practice ball or martial arts belt
– explored with a partner
– We take our time with each proposal
– Work is done both standing and on the floor, and can be adapted as required.
Photo : David Wong
