November 4 to 8, 2024
10 am to 1 pm (Mon-Fri)
Full week: $95 (taxes included)
Drop-in: $28 (Monday and Tuesday only)
Language of instruction: English
Questions can be asked in English, French, and German
This workshop is mask-friendly to accommodate teachers and participants with health issues. Learn more about our Accessibility & Masking policy.
CATEGORY
OBJECTIVE
This workshop plays with socialized notions of sexiness + the Buddhist concept of the hungry ghost. The hungry ghost in Eastern philosophy represents the insatiable hunger alive in people, often associated with craving and addiction. Stripping has roots in many dancing cultures, including the ballet, as an exchange between dancer and patron.
Stripper Gollum serves as a mutable figure grappling with their feelings of emptiness, longings, and the longings others have of them — to develop a compassionate humour towards both inner and outer hauntings.
CONTENT
Each day will begin with a guided workout to get nice and warm and sweaty while listening to music. After warming up, we will dive into state-based research. We will turn this research into a personal choreography before collectively expanding upon it as a group phrase that will deepen both physically and dramaturgically throughout the week.
I encourage playing at the “resilient edge of resistance” — a term named by Chester Mainard. This term was formed in the context of erotic massage to describe a touch that isn’t too hard and isn’t too soft.
| Workshop Pace | Workshop Features |
| Slow Variable Fast Adaptable to the group needs | Sub-groups exercices Exercices are adaptable Standing up for a long time Cardio exercices Short verbal explications Floor work Jumps and shocks Intense emotional work |
BIOGRAPHY
Moving between sound and performance, Be Heintzman Hope is a facilitator of music, dance and embodiment ritual based between Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang, colonially known as Montréal and the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (musquem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Wateuth) peoples.
Their practice bridges dance training with conflict resolution, healing and community arts. They hold workshops in transitional spaces, dance institutions, universities, DIY contexts and festivals.
On a physical level, their body is engaged in experimental dance making, meditation, Daoist martial arts, gyrokinesis, and a shit ton of physio. Their studies in eroticism, energetic boundaries, meditation, medicine, illness, and death are at the foundation of their practice. A larger part of this work is a quest to co-create alternative economies and community-based structures of radical tenderness and care.
This workshop helped me strengthened my capacity to hold my own pain, and pain in general, and to relish + celebrate joy, for myself and for others.
— Maxine