February 24 to 28, 2025
9:30 am to 12:30 pm (Mon-Fri)
Full week: $110 (taxes included)
Drop-in: $28 (available one month prior)
Language of instruction: English and French
Questions can be asked in English and French.
CATEGORY
OBJECTIVE
This co-facilitated workshop is curious about the topic of improvisation. We will consider the art of improvisation from different points of view, namely street and contemporary dance cultures or traditions. This will be the entry point for our practical engagement with the improvisation questions — how? And why? — and hopefully inspire a dialogue and rich exchange of what is shared and different regarding these respective traditions and/or cultures, contexts, aesthetics, values, etc.
Participants should expect to practice and perhaps walk away with strategies and ideas to transfer into their improvising practice.
CONTENT
Participants should expect intentional, contextual, and technical prompts to explore improvisation. These are inspired by facilitator experience and research. There will be dialogue through dance and verbal exchange.
| Workshop Pace | Workshop Features |
| Variable Fast Adaptable to the group’s needs | Intense emotional work Visual support (i.e., documentation, texts…) Short verbal applications Exercises are adaptable Subgroups exercises Physical contact between participants Floor work Jumps and shocks Cardio exercises Standing up for a long time High music or sound level |
BIOGRAPHY
Marie-Reine “M Queen” Kabasha
Inspired by all forms of expression and naturopathy, Marie-Reine M Queen Kabasha had the opportunity to work with creators with refined and versatile artistic esthetic such as Tentacle Tribe, EBNFLOH, Brigitte Poupart, We all fall down, and Grand Poney. Since 2019, she has invested herself in her own artistic language with a creative process called « Ce qui m’habite ». In freestyle as well as in theater work or teaching experiences, every exchange opportunity nurtures her.
Alanna Kraaijeveld
Alanna Kraaijeveld is a dance artist. Her approach values collaboration and context. She is curious about how specificity of relationship has potential to motivate intention, movement, and meaning. She studies improvisation, and is compelled by its dynamic capability. Furthermore, she makes space for both plainness and blurriness in her art.
Improv very well guided and inclusive. This allowed me to understand myself when I freestyle in a cypher. I feel more free and skilled.
— Sybille