September 30 to October 4, 2024
9:30 am to 12:30 pm (Mon-Fri)
Full week: $95 (taxes included)
Drop-in: N/A
Language of instruction: Frenglish (mix of English and French)
Questions can be asked in English and French.
CATEGORY
OBJECTIVE
This workshop is a real-time composition laboratory, open to professional artists of all disciplines.
An assortment of spontaneous movement structures will help us focus our attention, develop an awareness of inner and outer space, awaken our senses, and harness our inventiveness. Drawing, photography, installation, creative writing, feedback, presentations, and discussions will complement our study.
CONTENT
Each class begins with various somatic practices, some sensorial fine-tuning, and textural explorations. These activities create containers for focused investigation, encouraging everyone to engage in the dynamics of self-care and empathy for others.
Our time together will be spent tuning and stretching our physical, perceptual, and imaginative capacities. Our research will include exploring the inner life of objects, the relationships between various objects in space, and the compositional relationships between bodies, objects, images, and space. This will evolve into image-making that is textural, embodied, and alive.
| Workshop Pace | Workshop Features |
| Variable, adaptable to the group’s needs | Visual support (i.e., documentation, texts…) Short verbal applications Exercises are adaptable Subgroup exercises Physical contact between participants |
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood (he/him) is renowned as a leader in improvisational dance. He is an internationally recognized pioneer of contact improvisation (CI) and a master teacher/performer in both real-time composition and CI. He first studied and then performed with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little, the instigators of Contact Improvisation. He has also danced for the companies of Marie Chouinard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Jo Lechay, Joint Forces and Fulcrum, as well as the improvisational dance collectives Discovery Bal, The Echo Case and The Improvisational Movement Fund.
His journey has continued to evolve through the development of consciousness, various investigations of perceptual awareness, an in-depth interest in design in composition. He was also involved in an abundance of collaborative performances around the globe with the likes of Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Daniel Lepkoff, Kirstie Simpson, Alito Alessi, Karen Nelson, K.J. Holmes, Lisa Nelson, Julyen Hamilton, Benno Voorham and Benoit Lachambre, to name a few.
100% always enriching to explore in a context of openness and improvisation.
— Louie