October 28 to 30, 2024
3-day intensive, Monday to Wednesday. View the schedule below:
Monday — 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Tuesday — 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Wednesday — 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, with a 1-hour lunch.
Full workshop price: $95 (taxes included)
Drop-in: N/A
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
Participation in each exercise is voluntary and optional, respecting everyone’s individual limits. Every morning, we will activate our bodies, energy, and creativity through free movement, supported by high-intensity music. Then, we will have a talking circle to hear the group’s needs, followed by the facilitator providing some theory on the concepts to be explored during the day. These concepts and explorations will allow us to:
– Understand the notions of limits and see how they impact our creations;
– Equip ourselves with tools for awareness and communication;
– Unlock your practice;
– Bring awareness to your blockages;
– Free yourself from certain conditioning;
– Inspire a new stage of work;
– Rediscover the pleasure of play and exploration.
CONTENT
Desire, violence, nudity, exhaustion: playing with the limits of the performing body sometimes asks us to face areas of shadow and unspoken words, as if normal “in the name of art” to venture into these slippery spaces at the expense of our comfort and safety. This abandonment of our limits often generates confusion, blockages, or traumas. How then can we feel comfortable performing scenes, choreographies, or performative actions that are not comfortable to perform? By applying communication tools to name our needs and fears, we will learn how to create safe spaces to further explore our boundaries. Then, by adding a ritual dimension to these actions, we will see how to reclaim the sacred power of our creative acts.
| Workshop Pace | Workshop Features |
| Variable Adaptable to the group needs | Intense emotional work Short verbal applications Exercises are adaptable Subgroups exercises Physical contact between participants High music or sound level |
BIOGRAPHY
Transdisciplinary artist, ritualist and author, Stéphane Crête stands out with his atypical background (theatre, cinema, installation, performance art). In parallel to his career as an actor, he has developed a pedagogy that combines creative processes and self-knowledge through a series of workshops given with Essentia School, the Monastère des Augustines de Québec, the REPAIRE and Studio 303. His workshops address grief, presence and intimacy, through trance and conscious touch, as well as workshops created specifically for performance artists. He is also the author of “Marquer le temps, entre sacré et profane, la recherche de nouveaux rituels”.
This workshop gave me very concrete skills for creating conditions for working solo or in a group in ways that push my artistic limits and allow me to take risks in a supported and safe way.
— Anonymous