May 12 to 16, 2025
9:30 am to 12:30 pm (Mon-Fri)
Full week: $120 (taxes included)
Drop-in: $72 (3 day registration only)
Language of instruction: English and French
Questions can be asked in: English and French.
This workshop is mask-friendly to accommodate teachers and participants with accessibility needs. Learn more about our Accessibility & Masking policy.
CATEGORY
OBJECTIVE
The Movement Educator’s Forum is a community event that invites local folks who lead movement practice to exchange, reflect and re-inspire their teaching. Acknowledging that many of us address common themes, such as our relation to gravity or spirals, the MEF celebrates the unique ways that each of us engages with any given theme.
This year, once more, Kelly Keenan is accompanied by co-curator Mathi LP. Stay tuned for more information!
CONTENT
Coming soon!
| Workshop pace | Workshop features |
| Slow Fast Variable Adaptable to the group’s needs | Intense emotional work Visual support (i.e., documentation, texts…) Short verbal explications 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
Kelly Keenan is a Mother, a dance artist, teacher, researcher, and event organiser based in Montreal/ Tiohtiá:ke/ Mooniyang. Kelly has 20 years of experience teaching, both in and outside of institutions, locally and abroad and started as a professor in the field of new approaches to technique and training at UQAM Département de danse in December 2022. As a dancer, Kelly collaborates with several independent choreographers. As an event organiser, she has organised several Axis Syllabus workshop festivals, teacher’s laboratories and founded the Montreal Movement Educator’s Forum in 2012 which has hosted 50+ teachers across fields of practice and enthusiastic participants to exchange, reflect and re-inspire their teaching practices. Kelly’s research explores the foundational values in dance training and diverse complementary trainings through a genealogical and feminist perspective. She is dedicated to the creation of spaces for dialogue between movement educators and practitioners to renew and innovate socio-culturally informed approaches to dance and movement training.
Mathi LP is a somatic artist in live arts based in Tiohtià;ke, Montreal, who questions the various postures of the body in relation to tangible and imagined spaces. Graduated from the contemporary dance creation program at Concordia University, they now navigate through dance, Continuum, performance, (eco)somatics, writing, research, facilitation, and teaching, inquiring into the lived experience of the body in connection with the world around them. They are currently pursuing their graduate studies in dance at UQAM, where they explore somatic, dance, and performative practices called “fluid” as tools for activism and social change in order to unfold a continuum of personal and social engagements through the practice of moving bodies.
Kelly Keenan is a great inspiration to my work as a dancer, researcher and creator. I am amazed by the diversity of knowledge and resources that Kelly manages to gracefully string together. Her generosity in sharing her practice is what keeps me coming back for more. There is always something new or a new way of looking at the same thing, which is a quality I look for and admire in the various disciplines I practice. Kelly manages to open my eyes into my body and all its many layers, always with a refreshed gaze and an insight of awe.
— Mona El Husseini