February 10 to 14, 2025
9:30 am to 12:30 pm (Mon-Fri)
Full week: $95 (taxes included)
Drop-in: $28 (available one month prior)
Language of instruction: French
Questions can be asked in French and English
This workshop is mask-friendly to accommodate teachers and participants with accessibility needs. Learn more about our Accessibility & Masking policy.
CATEGORY
OBJECTIVE
– Train the agility of presence.
– Activate the verbs accompany, follow, listen, hear, encourage, and blossom.
– Nurture our imagination by weaving new links between sensations and representations, between what is experienced and what is seen.
– Listen to the alliances that form between different regions of our bodies.
– Shape tenderness as a way of dwelling, a way of discovering a place, living in it, transforming it and letting ourselves be transformed.
– The studio will be inhabited by different objects, materials and textures every day. It will become a playground where we can follow our attention and experiment with varying relationships to the world, to ourselves and to others.
CONTENT
Each day, we go through five phases:
1. To contemplate: discovering the space of the day.
2. To dive: a short sequence of sounds and movements inspired by Continuum, a somatic approach.
3. To encounter: Poetic games based on the qualities of objects.
4. To fly: Explore the possibilities between movement and immobility, between witnessing and being in movement (inspired by the practice of Authentic Movement).
5. To close and to emerge: draw, write, empty the studio, share a few words.
Over time, there will be moments to laugh, to be bored, to make small and large gestures, to be disoriented, to create new landmarks, to choose to hide or to appear.
| Workshop Pace | Workshop Features |
| Slow Variable | Short verbal explanations |
BIOGRAPHY
Working as a dance artist since 2011, Ariane Dubé-Lavigne is a mover, a researcher, and a facilitator for a variety of communities. She collaborates as a performer with some fifteen choreographers from the Montreal and Quebec scenes, as well as with artists from the visual arts and puppetry. She also presents a series of solos based on transdisciplinary research about rocking, movement of presence, relationship to objects and relationship between speech and gesture.
Her teaching draws on her studies in somatic education, her training in Authentic Movement and her practice in Continuum. It is also structured by her engagement in relational art, immersive experiences and in situ practices.
Between taming the unknown and welcoming poetic emergence, Ariane cultivates a space to deepen our relationship with ourselves while nurturing a direct link to our immediate environment.