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