Tao Dance Theatre

Alternative Technique Class (ATC) Programs for 2012/2013

Series 8:08 is an artist-initiated, artist-run organisation that was founded in 1993 in Toronto, Canada. Series 8:08 is a unique organisation that supports the professional development of dance and dance artists, in various disciplines and of diverse aesthetics, through our two programmes: the Choreographic Performance Workshop (CPW) and Alternative Technique Class (ATC).

The Alternative Technique Class Program offers innovative professional development workshops to professional dance artists, taught by established dance professionals. These are opportunities to explore alternative techniques and practices, as well as the creative visions and processes of diverse dance artists. sally morgan Dancing the Landscape: Embodying and Performing Place October 1–5, 2012 10.00 a.m.–5.00 p.m. (with lunch break)

Location: 10.00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at Dovehouse Dance Ballroom 2.00–5.00 p.m. in High Park (sites will change daily) Fee: $300.00 ($270.00 if you register with $25 non-refundable deposit by September 14, 2012)

This ATC is open to all levels of movers Each day will be structured around a Reflection and feedback will be part of (dancers, artists, scholars etc). If needed, specific theme. our daily process. If participants agree, mornings can be attended without taking Day 1 The Body as the First Site/Place feedback will contribute to both Morgan’s part in the afternoon workshops. Day 2 Extending the Fields of Self/ MES thesis work and to the writing of Fields of Care a (as-of yet untitled) field guide for the Using an interdisciplinary praxis based Day 3 Exploring Boundaries/Making somatic investigation of ‘place’. in site-specific dance, ecosomatics, Contact: Body to Body, Body to improvisation and place based/ Earth Please be ready with pen/notebook, environmental education, we will attempt Day 4 Placing Ourselves: Location, comfortable studio attire and weather an investigation into the experience, Proximity and Intimacy appropriate clothing for the afternoons. embodiment and performance of place. Day 5 Performing Place

How can we re-inhabit and reclaim the sensing, perceiving and imaginative body in order to make sense of place? How can we tune our senses to become more fully present, to participate in the interconnected web of the sentient world? sally morgan

Sally Morgan has been working as an between landscape and the body through Sally holds a (Hons) BFA from York improviser, dancer, choreographer, performance, research and teaching. The University in Dance, trained through director, filmmaker, teacher and late Diane Moore and noted teachers/ The School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s producer for 14 years. She spent several mentors, including Nancy Stark Smith, Professional Training Program and is years based in Toronto and lived/worked Simone Forti, and The BodyCartography a certified Pilates and Yoga Instructor. in Nova Scotia from 1999-2006. Her Project have influenced Sally’s artistic Under the company name Eastward choreography has been performed approach. Moving she has been teaching various across Canada and in the USA. She began classes/workshops since 2001. Sally training professionally in 1994 and has Recent projects include: the ‘here’ is currently finishing her thesis, titled traveled internationally with studies and score (2012); The Road Dances Project/ Dancing the Landscape, for completion work in dance, improvisation, somatic Handbook (in progress); The Fields of her Masters of Environmental Studies movement, contact improvisation and and the Woods (in progress); the large (2012). film/video. scale site work Landmarked (2010), Intersections (2008) and The Far Field Her current work is focused on (2008) and 26 minute dance film (2006 place/space, identity, environmental with Canal Arte) and accompanying 1hr philosophy, and ecosomatics, exploring BRAVO television documentary (2007) improvisation and the connections titled (decoding the) Undertow. photo: Joclyn Michel SASHA IVANOCHKO THE POTENT BODY: PERFORMING AND CREATING WITH INTENTION, ECONOMY AND DEPTH October 27 + 28, 2012 10.00 a.m.–4.00 p.m. (Lunch: 12.30 p.m.–1.30 p.m.) Location: Lower Ossington Theatre, Studio A Fee: $130.00 ($117.00, if you register with $25 non-refundable deposit by October 1, 2012)

This workshop is open to professional This two day workshop with Sasha form the basis for a daily open forum advanced emerging and mid-career Ivanochko takes an in depth look at among participants, discussing the dance artists dancers. interpretive and performance tools function of movement, impulse, body for a wide ranging contemporary mechanics, movement as metaphor, dance practice and artistic visioning. symbolism, abstraction, and musicality. Each day begins with an extensive Participants are required to bring a pen physical/creative preparation, opening and paper, one or two specific needs the energetic channels of the body and goals related to performing and/ through simple cycles of breath or choreographic development, and an driven movement and imaged based artistic statement to be shared with the improvisations. Introducing increasingly other participants. Whether you are a complex directives, participants gather interpreter, improviser, or are interested information pertaining to movement in developing your own choreographic patterning and embodiment. Moving practice, realizing the communicative on to ways of doing, ways of seeing, potential of your body in movement will Ivanochko leads participants through empower your practice and frame your movement building exercises and tasks artistic goals. where participants begin looking at intention and specificity in the context of phrases they build. These phrases SASHA IVANOCHKO

Sasha Ivanochko is a dancer, teacher, and Naoko Murakoshi (Kobe, Japan), of the Chalmers Family Fellowship, choreographer and artistic director Julia Sasso and Michael Trent (Toronto, and the first recipient of The Kathryn of blackandblue dance projects. She Canada). Her work toured across Canada, Ash Award For Excellence in Artistic graduated form the School of Toronto to the Dominican Republic and Japan. In Experimentation dispersed by the School Dance Theatre is 1992, and since has a 2001 Globe and Mail article, Ivanochko of Toronto Dance Theatre. In 2006, Miss graced the world stage for Toronto was named one of Canada’s leaders of Ivanochko was profiled in the Bravo Dance Theatre, James Kudelka, Tedd the new millennium. Ivanochko’s artistic Channel Documentary Freedom Series, Robinson, Peggy Baker, Denis Fujiwara, contribution to the Canadian dance and she has recently been invited to take and many others. She made her milieu has been acknowledged through part in Canada’s National Arts Centre’s choreographic debut in 1997, and has a variety of awards and bursaries. She is Associate Artist circle, an esteemed made works for Toronto Dance Theatre, a five time Dora Mavor Moore nominee position representing the best of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, TILT for Outstanding Performance and Best Contemporary Dance in Canada. sound+motion, independent artists Choreography, the recipient of the 2007 including Helen Husak (Calgary, Canada) K.M. Hunter Award, a two-time recipient

photo: Sam Baardman BENNO VOORHAM BENNO VOORHAM In the moment, the art of presence November 10 + 11, 2012 10.00 a.m.–4.00 p.m. (Lunch: 12.30 p.m.–1.30 p.m.) Location: Dancemakers Studio 313 (9 Trinity St. in the Distillery District) Fee: $156.00 ($140.00, if you register with $25 non-refundable deposit by October 12, 2012)

Workshop is open to all professional, The focus of this workshop will be In my work as a dance maker and pre-professional dance artists and artists the instant compositional side of improviser, I am interested in exploring working in other disciplines/genres/post- improvisation and developing skills and the crossroads between dance and genres. viewpoints to help us navigate and make theatre through using the potential of choices within improvisational scores. the human body to tell stories through movement in a non-literal way. In this Articulation and playfulness are the two workshop we will play with different main focuses . We will be dancing with scores to create dances in which we use and for each other while at the same our imagination and creative potential. time keeping an awareness of our own We will spend time to tune our bodies individual choices and directions while through movement, develop a sense for improvising. ‘being in the moment’ and from where we will dive into the realm of improvisation. This weekend long workshop will provide a playground for those interested in exploring territories of the here and now and the present moment of improvisation. Benno Voorham

Benno Voorham is an international company ‘Wrong Movement’ (1993-2007) and preparing the project “Дом/Home”, performer, choreographer and teacher and has worked as a dancer/actor at the a project with dancers from Moldova, from Holland, living in Stockholm since City Theatre of Stockholm (2005–2007). Ukraine and Belarus that will include 1995. Since his graduation in 1986 from In recent years, he has choreographed children from orphanages and their the School for New Dance Development several works for children and youth. stories. in Amsterdam he has worked He is an acclaimed international internationally as an independent dance- teacher of Contact Improvisation and artist, directing his own work as well as Compositional Improvisation. In both his collaborating with others in both set and teaching and performance work, he is improvised pieces. Together with Sybrig interested in exploring the creative and Dokter, he started LAVA-Dansproduktion, narrative potentials of the human body. an international operating association Currently he is working on the project for dance, based in Stockholm. He was “Miscellaneous Misunderstanding” with a member of the Greek dance-theatre Andrew Harwood and Paula Zacharias MARC BOIVIN Aspects of the dancers work (technique/improvisation/interpretation) November 23–25, 2012 10:00 a.m.–5.30 p.m. (Half hour break after technique; Lunch: 2.30–3.30 p.m.) Location: Dovehouse Dance Ballroom Fee: $235.00 ($212.00, if you register with $25 non-refundable deposit by October 26, 2012)

This workshop is open to all professional • The safety and health of the body as that present themselves more and more. As and pre-professional dance artists. it is developed beyond it’s daily use these options are investigated, the process to a higher level of efficiency and of artistic contribution of the performer in Technique class: expressivity; the creative process is examined, either for Marc Boivin offers a comprehensive • The understanding of a personal improvisational or choreographic contexts. contemporary dance class composed physical system inherent to our from the pedagogical material of the dancing, something to be first Coaching: Limón technique and some principals of accepted, then challenged and Using repertory from previous works by ballet. Using the traditional progression developed; Boivin and a document originally written of a center class, the dancer is challenged • The appropriation of a mode of for the EDAM summer intensive the to develop an equilibrium between expression in all its parameters; participants will be led through an analysis strength and the free released weight of • An expanded range of possibilities of concepts and ideas relating to both the momentum; the clarity of impulse within, and a higher sensitivity through a technical and the interpretative work of and the outward relationship to space heightened vitality within the body. the dancer. This coaching session will be through form and focus. In the process, used to generate an exchange between technique is defined as the appropriation Improvisation (with a focus on dancers on both concrete, physical of tools in order to physically articulate interpretation elements): notions as well as conceptual and imagery the artistic contribution of the dancer How are the body and the mind of the based ideas, all leading to articulating through her/his choices. dancer prepared for the creative process and the art that is specific to the role of the set on stage? How best can perspective and dancer, in class, in the studio, on stage. Through the technical work participants sensitivity be translated into a kinaesthetic focus on understanding and articulating experience? What are the performance tools Dancers are welcomed to participate in the mechanics of movement within their of the interpreter/improviser? one or all three daily sessions. It is possible own physical systems, as well, in relation to attend one session without having done to the science of this chosen traditional Through a series of improvisation exercises the preceding however continuity during and contemporary work. The work has drawn from various sources the dancer the week is encouraged as links are drawn many purposes among which: is called upon to investigate his/her between each of the three sessions. performing choices and the possibilities MARC BOIVIN

Dancer, improviser, teacher and R.A.F.T. 70 and Impact. Affiliated with choreographer, Marc Boivin began his L’école de danse contemporaine de dance career at Le Groupe de la Place Montréal since 1987 Boivin regularly Royale in Ottawa under the directorship guest teaches and choreographs in of Peter Boneham and in 1985 joined schools and professional organizations Ginette Laurin and her newly formed across Canada. He has been president company O Vertigo Danse. Since 1991 he of the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault has worked as an independent dancer, since 2006, president of the RQD performing mainly for Louise Bédard, (Regroupement québécois de la danse) Sylvain Emard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, since October 2010 and sat on the board Catherine Tardif, Tedd Robinson and of the Montreal Arts Council from 2005 most recently in some of his own works, to 2010.

photo: Chris Randle KEITH HENNESSY Performing Improvisation (aka Anarchism) February 16 + 17, 2013 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (Lunch: 1.30–2.30 p.m.) Location: Dovehouse Dance Ballroom Fee: $168.00 ($151.00 if you register with $25 non-refundable deposit by January 25, 2013)

This workshop is open to Professional Improvisation in live performance. based improvisation I propose a study dancers, pre-professional AND artists Presence, trance, quotidian task. The group in contemporary anarchism, working in other disciplines/genres/post- dramaturgy of endurance, struggle, i.e., experimenting and queering the genres. and failure. Queering norms, tracking libertarian/socialist dilemma (everyone sensations. Debating the merits do what they want, or do what’s best for of spontaneity versus scheming. the group). We’ll focus on deep listening Entertaining the possibility of working as integral to building consensus on politics and theory via improvised through movement, touch, and direct dancing and performance. In the engagement. Yes this is a dance class form of a weekend laboratory in body- open to all. KEITH HENNESSY

Keith Hennessy is a performer, directs CIRCO ZERO and was a member performance developed at L’Arsenic in choreographer, teacher and organizer. of the collaborative performance Lausanne, and presented across the US He was born in Canada, lives in San companies: Contraband (85-94), CORE and in six European countries. Keith’s Francisco and tours internationally. (95-98), and Cahin-caha, cirque bâtard recent teaching includes Impulstanz His interdisciplinary research engages (98-02). Recent works include Negotiate, (Vienna), University of California (Davis), improvisation, ritual and public action created in Dakar with dancers from Touch & Play Festival (Berlin), Ponderosa as tools for investigating political Senegal, Togo and RDCongo, Turbulence (Stolzenhagen), Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Kiev realities and social movement. Recent (a dance about the economy) funded by Festival of Improvisation, University awards include a Bilinski Fellowship the National Dance Project (US), Auf den of Dance & Circus (Stockholm), and (2011), a NY Bessie (2009), two Isadora Tisch! with Meg Stuart, Almost an open Movement Research (NYC). He has an MFA Duncan Awards (2009), and the SF Bay improvisation with Paris-based sound in Choreography and is a PhD candidate Guardian’s Goldie (2007). Hennessy artist Jassem Hindi, and Crotch, a solo in Performance Studies at UC Davis.

photo: Ian Douglas (Keith Hennessy, Almost, NY 2011) grupo corpo Master Class with Grupo Corpo February 18, 2013 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. class (with an artist talk to follow) Location: Toronto Dance Theatre’s Studio Theatre Fee: $20 ($10 if you register with $10 non-refundable deposit by January 22, 2013)

With registration to this ATC, your show ticket is only $15 (regular show ticket price is $50). Call Harbourfront Centre’s box office at 416.973.4000 and quote the promo code we give you to take advantage of this exclusive offer, just for you.

This class is suitable for professional The workshop will also include repertoire Edson Hayzer before joining Grupo Corpo dancers and pre-professional dancers. from their show PARABELO with fast in 2001 worked with Ballet do Teatro footwork and dynamic Brazilian beats Guaira and began his dance studies in Dancers from Brazilian company Grupo which examines the attraction and 1997. Corpo have designed a master class to repulsion of opposites. introduce repertoire from their show, Janaina Castro began her dance studies Sem Mim & Ímã to audiences and Join Albert, Edson and Janaina in an artist in 1981 and danced with Companhia de dancers. talk after the workshop. Dança de Minas Gerais before joining Grupo Corpo in 2000. Following a warm up where participants Albert Venceslau began his dance studies learn traditional movements of Rodrigo in September 2001. Before joining Grupo Pederneiras’ choreographic style and Corpo in January 2004, he danced with aesthetic. Sequences from Sem Mim Companhia dos Homens, Cisne Negro, & Ímã will be taught where rhythms of Companhia de Dança and DeAnima Ballet the sea merge with music of medieval Company. Portuguese - Galician chants.

As one of the largest multidisciplinary art centres in Canada, Harbourfront Centre is dedicated to the development of contemporary performance in Toronto, in Canada and around the world. Devoted to professional artists, and all who participate in the current performance ecology, Harbourfront Centre's World Stage is committed to maintaining and developing the exceptional calibre of talent creating work in the city.

Grupo Corpo was created in Belo subtlety it implies); the continuity of the Paulo Pederneiras is the artistic director, Horizonte, in 1975, by Paulo Pederneiras, work, thinking in terms of future; the and later he became responsible for the who brought along with him his integrity in maintaining the self-imposed scenography and lighting of the pieces, brothers, sisters and some friends. It is a elaboration standards. as well. contemporary dance company, which is typically Brazilian in its creations. As of 1992, composers were invited Rodrigo Pederneiras started as a to write sound tracks especially for dancer and, as of 1981, he became the During Corpo’s history, it went through each ballet. So, music, stage setting, choreographer of practically all of Grupo several metamorphosis but it has been costumes and choreography are created Corpo’s work. guided by three main concerns: the simultaneously. Each ballet is the result definition of an identity linked to the of this interaction. idea of a national culture (with all the

Performance dates: Feb 19 - 23, 2013 photo: José Luiz Pederneiras For full season lineup, visit www.harbourfrontcentre.ca/worldstage heidi strauss / toronto dance theatre you me here now March 9, 2013 1.00 p.m.–3.00 p.m. (with artist talk to follow) Location: Toronto Dance Theatre – Studio C Fee: $20 ($10, if you register with $10 non-refundable deposit by 1 March, 2013)

With registration to this ATC, your show ticket is only $15 (regular show ticket price is $40). Call Harbourfront Centre’s box office at 416.973.4000 and quote the promo code we give you to take advantage of this exclusive offer, just for you.

Workshop is open to professional of the improvisations that were used to Join Heidi in an artist talk after the dancers, dancers in their final years of form the new work Everyday Anthems workshop. professional training (or an equivalent), currently in development for Toronto physical theatre artists with affinity & Dance Theatre, this short workshop facility for movement. offers glimpses into different ways in which we connect, ways in which we Entering a studio to create with others innately react together. It explores how means entering into an agreement we listen to one another, push limits to move forward into the unknown together, how we (sometimes invisibly) together. Belief is why it happens; support and in doing so strengthen trusting other people is pivotal to how we possible realities for ourselves, and each find new ways into and out of ourselves. other. A variety of physical challenges This is what we will do: move into the relating to time and connection are the unknown together. Building on some foundation we will start with.

Through this partnership with Series 8:08's ATC program, Harbourfront Centre's World Stage is proud to offer this series of labworks to the professional dance community, as well as a subsidized ticket to the performance. heidi strauss / toronto dance theatre Since 1994 Toronto-based Heidi Strauss Toronto Dance Theatre is one of Canada’s Under House’s direction, the company has worked as an independent dancer leading dance companies, recognized has opened its doors to collaborations and choreographer. She has danced for the intelligent, provocative vision of with international artists including the for project-based companies including its choreography and the exceptional iconic American choreographer Deborah Fujiwara Dance Inventions, Tribal Crackling artistry of its dancers. Hay. Initiatives such as the Berlin/Toronto Wind/Peter Chin and Sylvain Émard Danse. Project (2009) and the Paris/Toronto In theatre & opera, she has choreographed Founded in 1968 by Peter Randazzo, Project (2011) bring stimulating new for the Frankfurt Opera, the Canadian Patricia Beatty and David Earle, and under perspectives to the Toronto dance scene. Opera Company, Good Hair Day, Volcano the artistic direction of Christopher The choreographic showcase Four at Theatre, The Tarragon and Necessary House since 1994, Toronto Dance Theatre the Winch and the discussion series The Angel, and worked as rehearsal director has produced a remarkable body of Process Revealed are designed to facilitate for Tribal Crackling Wind, Chartier Danse original Canadian choreography. The an exchange of ideas between artists & O Vertigo. In 2007 Strauss founded company has had– and continues to and the audience, and TDT’s Education adelheid and from 2008-2012 she was have– a profound influence on the program offers a wide variety of dance dance-artist-in-residence at the Factory development of dance in Canada. experiences for young audiences. Theatre where she created 3 full evening works including the multi-Dora Award Christopher House is one of Canada’s Toronto Dance Theatre performs annually winning this time. She teaches open “most enduringly inventive choreogra- at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre and classes in Toronto, has given workshops phers” (National Post). His works are at the company’s own Winchester St across Canada, in the Czech Republic, acclaimed for their rich movement inven- Theatre in Cabbagetown, where it shares Germany, Italy and Singapore. Strauss is a tion, subversive wit and deft handling of a home with the affiliated School of 2012 co-recipient of the KM Hunter Award multiple layers of meaning. TDT’s dancers Toronto Dance Theatre, Patricia Fraser for Dance. www.adelheid.ca are remarkable artists who play an essen- Artistic Director. The company maintains tial role in the creative process: they are a regular presence from coast to coast in celebrated for their powerful physicality, Canada, and has toured extensively in the imaginative daring and sensitive, playful USA, Europe and Asia. ensemble work.

photo credit: Jeremy Mimnagh TAO DANCE THEATER New Body Techniques: Intensive Master Class March 19, 2013 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. class (with an artist talk to follow) Location: Pia Bouman School of Ballet and Creative Movement Fee: $20 ($10 if you register with $10 non-refundable deposit by February 25, 2013)

This workshop is open to all advanced Artistic Director Tao Ye has been also demonstrate and teach excerpts professional and pre-professional dance developing his own way of training so of the company’s physically demanding artists. that dancers are able to execute his repertory. Tao Ye states that, “in this unique physical vocabulary and reach class, we will challenge the ability of greater potential in their own movement our own body and sharpen the clarity styles. Join Tao Ye and his company TAO of our responsiveness so that the mind Dance Theater will teach an intensive becomes more conscious of the body’s two hours of physical exploration and every detailed nuance. This extends our discovery. Through games to relax the awareness beyond the limits of our body body as well as exercises to open the out into the space around us.” mind, participants will experience first- hand Tao Ye’s new movement techniques Join Tao Ye in an artist talk after the that he has been invited to teach in workshop. Singapore, Sweden and Holland. TAO will

Tao Ye is a graduate of the Chongqing toured internationally as well as in China. TAO Dance Theater has taken China’s Dance School in Chongqing, China. After As a member of BMDC, he choreographed dance world by storm. The company dancing with the Shanghai Army Song & the male duet In•In in 2006 and the has collaborated with leading Chinese Dance Ensemble, he joined Jin Xing Dance company work Fantasy in 2007. In March artists across genres including theatre, Theater in 2003 where he stayed until 2008, he founded TAO Dance Theater. experimental music, film, visual arts and 2006. In 2004 he began choreographing Main works include: Weight x 3; Sketch; installation. TAO has been featured in his own works and together with five moment; left & right; 2; 4. In 2011 he was performances as well as choreography independent artists co-founded the invited to co-star in the film The Blue and teaching residencies worldwide, Shanghai-based physical performance Bone by cinematographer Christopher including Sadler’s Wells (UK), Europalia company, Zuhe Niao and performed in Doyle (Du Kefeng) and directed by rock (BE), M.A.D.E. Festival (SE), Singapore Arts their first production Tongue’s Memory legend Cui Jian. In 2012 leading Asian Festival, Fall for Dance (US), American of Home. In 2005, Tao’s duet One Person style magazine Men’s UNO awarded Tao Dance Festival (US), Lincoln Center was performed in the Shanghai Art Ye the 2012 Elegance Award and Sadler’s Festival (US), and Spring Dance Festival at Center. Tao joined the Beijing Modern Wells named him one of their “New Wave the Sydney Opera House (AU). Dance Company (BMDC) in 2006 and Associates” artists.

Performance dates: Mar 20-23, 2013 photo: Lars Ake Stomfelt For full season lineup, visit www.harbourfrontcentre.ca/worldstage JO STRØMGREN KOMPANI A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football: Inside the show April 9, 2013 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. (with artist talk to follow) Location: Dovercourt House, First Floor Fee: $20 ($10 if you register with $10 non-refundable deposit by March 12, 2013)

With registration to this ATC, your show ticket is only $15 (regular show ticket price is $35). Call Harbourfront Centre’s box office at 416.973.4000 and quote the promo code we give you to take advantage of this exclusive offer, just for you.

Workshop is open to all professional and Learn and rehearse repertoire from pride and prejudice surrounding the pre-professional dance artists. the performance, A Dance Tribute to concept of working-class football and the Art of Football and experience a upper-class ballet. This workshop offers new logic. A Dance Tribute to the Art a unique introduction to the work and of Football delves into the physical artistic world of Jo Strømgren Kompani routine of the greatest game on earth (JSK). The workshop will be given by two and elevates the aesthetic aspects of its of JSK’s experienced dancers, Mikkel Are insanity. It comments on the artificial Olsenlund and Jan Nicolai Wesnes. conflict between the “common sport” Join Mikkel and Jan in an artist talk after and the “eloquent arts” as well as the the workshop.

Mikkel Are Olsenlund was educated at Jan Nicolai Wesnes was educated at the Jo Strømgren Kompani was founded in the Faculty for Performing Arts at the Faculty of Performing Arts at the Oslo 1998 and is based in Norway. It has grown Oslo National Academy of Art from 2001- National Acadamy of the Arts from to become one of the most successful 2004. Since 2009, Mikkel has worked 2001-2004. Jan Nicolai has worked independent groups in Scandinavia. To with Jo Strømgren Kompani. In addition, with Jo Strømgren Kompani since date, the company has toured almost 50 Mikkel was also in productions like Singin 2009. He is also a freelance dancer and countries, and has annually had more in the rain (Oslo Nye Teater), Lille Eyolf choreographer for dance companies and than 150 performances presented both and Hunting for Nora (Teater Ibsen) and musical productions, as well as for TV and in large national theatres and small Unge Hamsun, Baller and The Fairyqueen. film. He has also been assistant director alternative venues all over the world. and choreographer for Katrine Bølstad Kompani.

Performance dates: April 10 - 13, 2013 photo: Knut Bry For full season lineup, visit www.harbourfrontcentre.ca/worldstage LOUISE LECAVALIER Training/Dancing April 12 + 13, 2013 - NEW DATES 10.00 a.m.–12 p.m. or 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. (There are two sets of the same workshops) Location: Dovehouse Dance Ballroom Fee: $55.00 ($50.00 if you register with $25 non-refundable deposit by March 22, 2013)

This workshop is open to professional The first part of the workshop will be will perform a choreographic excerpt dance artists and dance students in a a training session based not on usual that — although it may seem simple at professional dance training program. dance techniques, but on elements taken first glance — will demand the speed of from boxing, as well as simple, dynamic, execution, precision, and coordination natural movements aimed at developing of original movements characteristic of intensity and pushing stamina to its Édouard Lock’s style. limits. In the second part, participants LOUISE LECAVALIER

Born in Montreal, Louise Lecavalier Vision tour in 1990, The Yellow Shark dance. In June, 2011, she was named joined La La La Human Steps in 1981 in concert by Frank Zappa and the Ensemble “Dance Personality of the Year 2010- Oranges and went on to perform in every Modern of Germany in autumn, 1992, 2011” by the French Critics’ Union, in one of the company’s productions until and Michael Apted’s film, Inspirations, in Paris. In November 2011, she became the Salt in 1999. The company’s symbol and 1996. In May 1999, she received the Jean very first winner of the Prix de la danse luminary for nearly two decades, giving A. Chalmers National Award, Canada’s de Montréal. Louise occasionally gives her heart and soul to her art, Louise most distinguished dance prize, and in workshops and master classes in Canada embodied dance on the outer edge with February 2003, she received a Career and in Europe, while mounting creation passion and unrestrained generosity, Grant from the Conseil des arts et des projects both as an independent dancer dazzling audiences everywhere. She lettres du Québec. In December 2008, and for her production company, Fou also participated in all the major Louise Lecavalier was named an Officer of glorieux, a flexible working structure collaborations of La La La Human Steps, the Order of Canada in recognition of her founded in 2006. including the David Bowie Sound and illustrious contribution to contemporary www.louiselecavalier.com

photo: André Cornellier Campo Collective effervescence April 24, 2013 1:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. (with artist talk to follow) Location: Dovercourt House, 1st Floor Studio Fee: $52 ($25 if you register with $25 non-refundable deposit by March 27, 2013)

This workshop is open to all dancers structure. We will use, reuse and We aim to find the arrangement of and and participants across other artistic subvert the terms and meaning found in relations between the elements present disciplines. architecture to create and recreate an to create something more complex. action. This will construct a choreography In this workshop we aim to find the and develop a body language and a We propose to become storytellers of our meaning of “togetherness”. movement vocabulary through the own conquests, of our dreams, hopes and How does a group come together and various relations among us. desires. why? When are we really a group? We aim to shift between these roles, so We will work as an ensemble, where equal We aim to find and feel “collective that we may use the notion of group and amount of importance is assigned in order effervescence”. This energy can cause group effort to construct scenes. to create the dramaturgy of the scene. people to act differently in their everyday We want to portray the epic nature in us lives. Through this we are able to achieve In these scenes, we will take advantage and be reminded that we are able to be the state of being close to each other so of being in a “group action” that will take the ones that accomplished great things that we can portray heroic deeds and place when individuals realize that they together, “One for all and all for one”. adventures. are more likely able to achieve a common goal when acting together, rather than Join Guilherme in an artist talk after the For this to happen, we have to organize individually. workshop. ourselves and become a group or a

Guilherme Garrido was born in 1983, CAMPO, which brought That Night Portugal. His artistic work and education Follows Day to World Stage audiences are connected to dance, choreography in 2009, is a Ghent-based art centre and fine arts. Gui is interested in that creates and presents work at all performance as a way of story telling stages of development on a national and by becoming a showman disguised in international scale. contemporary dance. His artistic work always contains warm and subversive humour and is occupied with how the body and movement can also give associations to films, hero figures, shows or rock concerts. At the same time, he is interested in interweaving the fragility and intimacy of relationships on stage.

Performance dates: April 23 - 24, 26 - 27, 2013 photo: Phile Deprez For full season lineup, visit www.harbourfrontcentre.ca/worldstage PUBLIC RECORDINGS PERFORMANCE PROJECTS what we are saying - Performance Encounter May 5, 2013 1.00 p.m.–3.00 p.m. (with artist talk to follow) Location: Toronto Dance Theatre Fee: $20 ($10, if you register with $10 non-refundable deposit by 5 April, 2013)

Workshop is open to all professional and and to express meaning using bodies as action, language and speech as pre-professional dance artists. instruments for communication in concert well as on experimental sound, the with others. Collapsing the distance arrangement and function of objects and Participants will be invited into an between audience and performer, the a consideration of architectural space immersive performance environment work creates the conditions for an drawn from visual practices - to create a where Public Recordings’ collaborating emerging multi-voiced conversation, shared language for live performance. artists will introduce the working principles asking how we might be together and how This two-hour performance encounter and performance strategies from their that togetherness is voiced. includes an interactive set up of newest work what we are saying. the design of the space, an excerpt This project situates choreography of the performance, and facilitated A field of chairs facing multi-directions as expanded practice - a flexible set conversation on the themes and spans the entire floor space. We are all of tools for time-based and relational concerns of the work. in the space together. A performance interdisciplinary practice. It brings that explores the performative potential together a group of artists who Join Public Recording Performance of spontaneous choral speech, the work collaboratively - drawing on Projects in an artist talk after the project confronts the need to speak choreographic strategies, embodied workshop.

Public Recordings is an atelier that We believe in the potential of Our “public recordings” are forums explores and shares choreographic performance to provoke and expand for inquiry where choreography and experimentation through artistic how we see, hear and feel each other. performance are understood as a social research, performance creation, Through our projects we maintain a investigation. They are time-based, publication and education. critical dedication to the form and experiential events that insist on liveness, tradition of dance as we seek to and in the potential for what can happen facilitate participation and exchange – in a shared space. In the temporary collaborations between audiences and communities we create, the performer artists from different backgrounds and and spectator must work together to disciplines. establish meaning and resonance. The results are often funny, tragic, absurd, and undeniably human.

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photo credit: Liam Maloney TAKE ADVANTAGE OF our 2012/13 LOYALTY DISCOUNT RATES! Sign up for … 1 ATC receive 10 % discount 2 - 3 ATCs receive 30% discount 4 or more ATCs receive 50 % discount … off the total amount. This Loyalty discount programme applies to all 2012/13 ATCs. Classes are limited sized. Please SECURE your place by paying YOUR DEPOSITS ONLINE through PAYPAL on our website: www.series808.ca or through a cheque made payable to Series 8:08. A $25.00 non refundable deposit is required for each ATC that you register for and is required by the dates listed in order to receive your discount. E.g.: 3 ATCs require a $75 deposit (3 x $25). Series 8:08 is offering Scholarships to selected participants. For more information and to apply, please go to our website: www.series808.ca Locations: • Dovehouse Dance Ballroom - 805, Dovercourt Road (north of Bloor Street), 2nd floor • Dovercourt House, 1st and 3rd floors - 805 Dovercourt Road (north of Bloor Street) • Lower Ossington Theatre - 100A Ossington Ave (north of Queen Street) • Dancemakers Studio Theatre - 9 Trinity St. in the Distillery District • Pia Bouman School of Ballet and Creative Movement - 6 Noble Street • Toronto Dance Theatre’s Studio Theatre - 80 Winchester Street

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To register, first contact ATC Program Manager, Cara Spooner, then complete the registration process by either paying online through our website or sending a cheque made payable to Series 8:08. Deposits are $25 per ATC, non-refundable to secure your place. Please include your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, and the name of the workshop you would like to attend.

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Contact Information: Series 8:08 ATC Program Manager, Cara Spooner T: 416.504.6429 Ext. 40 or E: [email protected]

Series 8:08 team: Artistic & Managing Director: Yvonne Ng Administrator: Yves Candau CPW Manager: Tanya Crowder CPW Technical Director: Stuart Baulch Program Assistant: Jennifer Lee ATC Manager & Outreach Coordinator: Cara Spooner Blog Manager: Brittany Duggan Photographer: Omer Yukseker

Mailing Address: c/o Dance Umbrella of Ontario 476 Parliament Street, Second Floor Toronto, Ontario M4X 1P2 www.series808.ca

The ATC Program was founded in 1998 by past Co-AD, Jessica Runge. www.series808.ca