Johanna BundonJohanna Bundon is an independent dance maker, teacher, and facilitator. She has taught contemporary dance and Yoga classes through New Dance Horizons Dance Core, is a faculty member of the Globe Theatre’s Actor Conservatory, and is currently a student in the Feldenkrais Professional Training Program under the direction of Elizabeth Beringer (San Diego).
First Approximations
Inspired by current study in the Feldenkrais Method, this class will bring awareness to the foreground as a tool for inquiry, self-care, and pleasant learning. Everyone welcome |
Ashley JohnsonAshley Johnson is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist trained in group facilitation and hands on bodywork as a teacher of the Mitzvah Technique/Itcush Method and Continuum Movement. She works with diverse populations in movement re-education, and injury rehabilitation with a focus on shifting postural patterning and increasing movement efficiency. As a dance artist and educator she creates interdisciplinary site specific creations that blend embodiment practices with creative process.
www.constantlyseekingsoftness.ca Constantly Seeking Softness This workshop brings together fluid undulation inherent in Continuum Movement with alignment of the vertical axis in the Mitzvah Technique/Itcush Method. A constant play between internal and external sensing, a discovery of what it is to be embodied in everyday actions allows the participant to understand the connections between forms. |
Jennifer Mascall is a choreographer of over 200 dances, teacher, mentor, and an advocate for the art of dance. She is currently the artistic director of her own creation based company in Vancouver, MascallDance. Mascall has established choreographic and somatic training contexts, in which she offers research infused with her studies with master teachers Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Linda Putnam. Jennifer Mascall pursues understanding and its reflection through crafting moving landscapes. Her long fascination with the boundary between one form and another leads to making endless physical dialogues, most recently with architects, videographers, and writers. www.mascalldance.ca
Heart to Heart Yielding the back of the heart to the hand of a partner developed the arc of the waltz. Connecting the energy of the heart bodies between two people drives the tango. When the venous and the arterial blood meet we feel a pause resting, before the decision to lead ,to follow, to guide, to yield. The class will approach the heart with partnering through hands on work and movement. |
Patricia Dewar, Ph.D has spent a lifetime studying and practicing various mind/body techniques which assure us that “we are larger than we thought we were.” While previously this belief was expounded by the Ancients as well as by present day Yogi’s, Poets, Dance Artists etc. it is only with recent advances in Neuro Science (see Candice Perks, Norman Doidge ) as well as advances in technical equipment (MRI’s and Pet scans) that Energy systems within the body, (i.e. meridians, chakra’s, aura’s etc) have been verified. Patricia’s keen interest in understanding how everything is vibrating and interconnecting brings a new lens of wonder to her long standing Iyengar Yoga career. She feels that the EMYoga practice is not only accessible and practical but it is almost magical in the felt sense of instant shifts of energy.
Energy Medicine Yoga This is an introductory session in Energy Medicine Yoga as conceived and taught by Lauren walker , and of course as received and taught by me in my own search for healing and personal spiritual growth. EMYoga is based on the Chinese 5 Element Theory and the Energy Medicine works of Donna Eden, an internationally renowned Energy teacher. The session will consist of combining simple/accessible yoga poses with various energy techniques such as tracing meridian lines, fluffing the aura’s , tapping, stroking, holding and massaging or pressing certain acupuncture points. The only essential requirement is to come with an open mind. |
I-Ying WuI-Ying Wu is an improvisation practitioner and researcher. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Northampton, UK in 2014 and did her postdoctoral research at the Improvisation Studies Centre based in the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance, University of Regina during 2016-2017. Her PhD practice-led research employed a Daoist understanding of qi to develop a system of improvisational movement. Informed by ancient texts on Chinese traditional qigong and Daoist philosophy, her improvisation practice focuses on subtle awareness of the very moment when an improvisational phenomenon emerges.
Subtle Awareness This workshop explores improvisation based on Daoism’s notion of subtle awareness, that is, a kind of intuitive sensitivity that exists prior to interpretation achieved through nurturing a calm and relaxed state of heightened consciousness. Through a series of improvisational tasks as a process of detachment, participants will find their own pathways to allow awareness to move deeper into the body by listening to a subtle reaction with the external surroundings. Each participant will have their own meditative process, a realization well-recognized in Daoist world view. |
Traci KlukTraci Kluk is an inclusion focused multidisciplinary artist, educator, coach and director, who was Canada’s first certified Fitzmaurice Voicework™ instructor (2006) and is on of Canada’s lead practitioners of the work. She explores and develops her work through somatic arts with a focus on where awareness, intuition and action intersect. Traci is the recent and humbled recipient of the 2015 YWCA’s Woman of Distinction Jacqui Shumiatcher Arts Award. Her exploration of somatic art began before the term was trendy. Traci’s deep and thorough explorations have included and are not limited by: Mitzvah/Itchush Technique, Extended Vocal Technique, Pochinko Clown, Somatic Experiencing™ and Yoga. Traci’s lived experience informs her understanding of ‘somatics’ to describe embodied-focused awareness through dynamic efforts.
Bones to Breathe: Discovering embodiment through Fitzmaurice Voicework™ Fitzmaurice Voicework™ is a somatic approach to voice that uses asana or ‘dynamic efforts’ to experience released breath, free and connected voice, and flow. This gentle grounded interplay between released body, breath and sound creates a safe and innovative way to explore voice & movement and the connection between psyche and soma. |
Ann TuttAnn Tutt is an alternative movement professional. Tutt is a Mitzvah Technique practitioner, trainer, dancer, improvisor, creator and educator who’s perspective is rooted in 37 years of experience with the development of Nehemiah Cohen’s work, the Mitzvah Technique. Ann’s ongoing research includes investigations into many other movement modalities, i.e. Klein Technique, Skinner Release Technique etc. as well as ongoing analysis of movement clarity, facility and functionality of the sensate body mind in relationship to contemporary dance technique and embodiment. Tutt is the founder of RadixlyEmbodyDesires which includes the Alchemy of Motion and B.I.T.E.S. with Sound. She has performed in the works of Peter Chin, Claudia Moore, Julia Aplin, and Learie McNicolls and creates her own solo work and interactive improvisational performance events.
The Mitzvah Technique and the Alchemy of Motion This workshop will bring participants into the essence of the Mitzvah Technique. Tutt will introduce participants to her movement laboratory, The Alchemy of Motion. This space is the processing arena for her ongoing research in the pursuit of embodiment. Tutt will source from her wealth of experience in the evolution and distillation of the Mitzvah Technique as well as in dance and other movement approaches. This process will endeavor to excavate clarity, fluidity and perception for body and mind. |
Natasha MartinaNatasha Martina is an Associate Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Saskatchewan, specializing in movement for actors. She is a Somatic Movement Educator in BMC® and a certified Laban Movement Analyst. Part of her artistic research delves into the creation of original work, through her theatre company, Ground Cover Theatre.
www.groundcovertheatre.com Revisiting our Developmental Roots through Body-Mind Centering® Through explorations done on the floor we will begin to the unfold the many layers of developmental progression an infant goes through in anticipation to walk and communicate in the world. The foundation of the work is rooted in Body-Mind Centering®; an embodied physical practice that provides a foundation for the individual to freely experience, sense and consciously gain more connection to self. Kneepads are recommended. |
"I grew up in Spokane, Washington. I graduated from the University of Idaho in Music, studied at WSU in Pullman, Washington and much later completed a Masters in adaptive aquatics from UBC in Vancouver, BC. For the next several years I was a stay-at-home Mom and looked after Tor Baxter and Erian Baxter. Both have become remarkable people in their professional work—Tor as a carpenter-artist in the film industry and Erian as a remarkable developer of The Block, Deep Cove Outdoors, and also now Deep Cove Canoe and Kayak Centre. During the time of raising the kids, Iain and I had an amazing mind connection into the changing art climate in Vancouver, Los Angeles, New York and the international art world. Hence the birth of the N. E. Thing Co Ltd."
"Now for all the other things in my life. I bought Watson Boat Rentals in Deep Cove, North Vancouver and taught canoeing and boating safety through Red Cross Training. This has now become Deep Cove Canoe and Kayak Centre. I was the Adaptive Aquatic Specialist for the Vancouver Parks Board, earned Silver medals for pool and for Synchronized Swimming in Masters events, and researched and published Waterways, a program documenting the wonderful water program at UBC for preschool children with disabilities aged 3-5. I currently live on Gabriola Island where I enjoy accompanying the Gabriola Chamber Ensemble and playing Pickle Ball, a game which I introduced to the island." |
In Jeannie Mah's Deep Dark Water, somatic memories are activated through the image of Mah's lithe body gliding through water. Using footage shot by Joan Scaglione in an outdoor pool belonging to the late photographer Courtney Milne, the film offers a utopic vision of a liberated body. As Mah describes it, "The sensuous joyful exhilaration of a body gliding through the water. . . in summer is like a dream! A small bit of heaven for a hot and dry prairie city, this is an idealized yet real space, its aqua blue water, shimmering in summer sunshine, with friends, active bodies, liberates our imagination and soothes our mind." |
Jeannie Mah was born in 1952 in Regina, Saskatchewan. She attended the University of Regina, receiving a Bachelor of Education in 1976, and in 1979 she studied ceramics at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. Other studies took Mah to the Banff Centre (1984, 1988), to France's Université de Perpignan (1988) and Université de la Sorbonne (1989). Eventually Mah returned to the University of Regina, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1993. Mah credits Regina artist and instructor Jack Sures with inspiring her practice: “I learned my heavy-duty work ethic from him.”
Mah's ceramic work emphasizes vessels, particularly cups, and she creates these delicate porcelain objects by hand. Mah explains her approach: “Balanced on the cusp of a fine arts education, I insist on working in a medium which is considered to belong to a decorative art. While seeking out the vestiges of art in our daily lives, I plunder the history of this decorative art, and usurp the cup as pulling it into a fine arts practice.... While an "upstairs/downstairs" split reveals a classicist gap in our societal/domestic consciousness, the mug and the teacup meet on this domestic front, as the utilitarian and the decorative merge to fulfill aesthetic and bodily needs.” Since 1986, Mah's work has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Canada and internationally. Her work is represented in collections including the Saskatchewan Arts Board, Winnipeg Art Gallery, MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina), Municipalité de Nyon (Switzerland), Burlington Art Gallery, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Museum of Civilization (Hull). In addition to her ceramic work, Mah collaborates with other artists on work in a variety of other media, including film and video, photography, and performance. Mah also co-edited Regina's Secret Spaces: Love and Lore of Local Geography (2006, with Lorne Bueg and Anne Campbell). Jeannie Mah works from her studio in Regina, Saskatchewan. |
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