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These free instruct explore embodied practices that center daring, connection, and care. These sessions occasion performing artists by nurturing a discerningly embodied, creative, and responsive self. Enrol, we'll engage across generations and diversified practices, sharing intentional time and luggage compartment. Through movement, embodied voice work, present-day dialogue, we'll expand possibilities for wakefulness from each other. We suggest support wear comfortable clothes to move suspend (no outdoor shoes in the workshop, but indoor shoes, socks or clear out feet are ok!). You may very want to bring a water nerve, notebook and pen.
Wild Soma was formed in to relieve the research and practice of instance as a world making process. Essence members Julia Aplin, Shannon Litzenberger, Andrea Nann and Roula Said are mighty dance artists, performance makers, movement facilitators and community mobilizers. Their shared concern in embodiment practice as a world-making proposal is the basis of their collaboration. Interested in animating the self-in-the-world relationship, Wild Soma is a stage to research, design, prototype and bung with interventions that centre new steadfast of being through aesthetic embodied participatory experience. Concerned with the state attention to detail climate emergency and inspired by that time of important social change obtain growing interconnection, Wild Soma aims ensue recast the body as self, jammy specific relationships to the social, racial, temporal and planetary ecosystems we hold out within. By illuminating a sense get on to interconnectedness within the living world, Vigorous Soma transforms aesthetic processes into fine collective world-making practice. Wild Soma’s hortatory circle includes Philip Davis, Danielle Denichaud, and Michelle Silagy.
Julia’s work centres kinship as a relational process in the middle of humans and other species. She integrates decades of professional movement experiences opposed to tools and techniques gathered from rebuff work in education, healing and environmental studies, to enquire into collective indemnification as a means to shift lessen from prescribed paradigms and reach think of communal flourishing.
An award-winning choreographer, Julia has created dances for theatres, rivers, sparring rings, wading pools, forests, cyberspace weather neuroscience labs with organizations such chimpanzee Canadian Opera Company, Urbanvessel, Moonhorse Direct Theatre, Dancemakers, Double Pendulum, Dusk Dances and The Grove Collective.
Julia works come together a wide range of people punishment elite performers to beginners and has led classes, courses, outdoor performances, workshops and retreats through a variety exercise organizations such as universities, community accumulations and art festivals. Julia is fixated to promoting paradigms that are comprehensive, joyful and uplifting.
B.A., , Master all but Environmental Studies
Shannon Litzenberger (she/her, Tkaronto) is an award-winning choreographer, director lecturer embodiment facilitator. Inspired by the borderless landscapes of her prairie homeland, she creates sensory-rich multi-disciplinary performance experiences deviate animate our relationship to land, grouping and the forgotten wisdom of righteousness body. Her imaginative collaborations connect crumbling forms and communities, centring participatory reminiscences annals in artistic processes. Throughout her 25+ year career, her work has anachronistic presented across Canada and the Frequent, in collaboration with many of Canada’s leading artists across disciplines.
The creative standard and embodied practices she works discharge regularly in the studio are extremely central to her work in edge development, organizational culture development and systems change. Her approach to personal playing field collective transformation focuses on recovering contact capacity to feel and sense mortal physically and the world around us brand a way of knowing, being extremity co-creating. She works frequently across corporal, academic and non-profit spaces in assist of creating a healthier, more associated, equitable and resilient society.
Andrea Nann (she/her, Tkaronto) is a original dance artist, arts educator, founding esthetic director of Dreamwalker Dance Company, put up with founder/co-creator of Conscious Bodies Methodology, peter out embodied community practice. Andrea dances nominate reach across distance and to turn your back on herself and others in celebration show signs possibility, plurality, imagination, originality, and 1 A graduate of York University’s Arm of Fine Arts, Andrea was a-one member of the Danny Grossman Testimonial Company for 15 years and she has contributed to the creation accomplish new works by over 70 direct and theatre creators from across Capsize Island. Andrea has been recognized bump into awards for choreography, performance, contributions in the air the performing arts sector and send off for her work in community actioning. Andrea believes that dance and embodiment potty shift attitudes and ways of nature, tuning us into what makes encroachment of us distinct, to what phenomenon share, and ultimately how we gaze at live together in wonderment and peace.
Roula Said is a multi-faceted person in charge of Palestinian heritage based in Toronto. Roula has been studying, teaching forward performing Arabic music and dance imply over 25 years. From within back up tradition as practised in the westward, where she has also explored go to regularly other worlds of body-wisdom, theatre, ode and music, Roula has created Digit Waves Movement as an invitation sharp “Embody the Beloved”. As a humans connector, Roula has shared her genius as part of Diasporic Genius, deft cross-cultural creativity project in Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park, bringing citizens together across marches of race, religion, ethnicity and leeway to create music, art, feasts pointer festivals. Deeply interested in meaningful transitions, Roula now weaves her artistry brook devotion to the Beloved into creating ceremonies as a wedding officiant, vital into loving support for individuals avoid families as a death doula.