Improvisation with Johanna Bundon & Jayden Pfeifer: August 26
Improvisation with Johanna Bundon & Jayden Pfeifer
Date: Saturday, August 26, 2023
Cost: FREE while a small donation is appreciated to support facilitation
Time: 1:30-3:00pm
Location: New Dance Horizons
We share a dedication to the creation of new performance work, and a common interest in creating uncanny, perplexing live performance predicaments for two. These duet situations are most often created through improvised structures and action scores.
In our co-led learning spaces, we explore improvisation as an expression of five essential skills: Availability, Listening, Accepting, Supporting, Expressing.
These skills are practiced in relationship to self, other, and group.
This workshop invites participants to explore generative tools to engage improvisation as a method for creation through moving, speaking, and writing.
All artists welcome.
Please wear clothing comfortable to move in.
Bring a journal.
Instructor Biographies
Johanna Bundon is an independent artist whose practice includes dance and theatre performance, choreography, and teaching. She is a 2005 graduate of LADMMI (Les Ateliers de Danse Moderne de Montreal), a 2008 graduate of the Globe Theatre’s Actor Conservatory, and holds a BA in Arts & Culture from the University of Regina. Johanna is an Artistic Associate of Curtain Razors (Regina). She has worked with Curtain Razors on Moveable Feast Independent Artists Edition (2016), assistant director on Bad Blood (2017), producer on Carmen Angel (2018), and producer and lead artist on Trespassers Waltz – Grand Acts of Theatre (September 2020) and as producer of Trespassers Podcast (2020). As a choreographer, New Dance Horizons, Globe Theatre’s Sandbox Series, the National Arts Centre’s Prairie Scene Festival, and the Prairie Dance Circuit have presented her work. Her choreography has also featured in numerous Globe Theatre productions since 2006. Johanna's most recent passion projects include Untitled Peter Tripp Project (August 2021) created with Jayden Pfeifer & Lee Henderson, Live Duet (2016) co-created with Pfeifer, and the understory (2015) co-created with bee pallomina. As a curator and community organizer, her favourite projects are: Getting to Room Temperature by Arthur Milner (February 2022), Conversations for Love & Loss (Spring 2022) Parkour Practice for Artists -- Getting By: The Art of Resourcefulness & Making Do with Darci Anderson (2021), SIT UP Regina: an Urban Mindfulness Retreat with Michael Stone & Heritage Community Association (2015), The Blanket Folding Project (2014). Johanna frequently teaches movement practice through New Dance Horizons’ Dance Core, has been a faculty member of the Globe Theatre’s Actor Conservatory (2010/2012/2014/2016), and was the 2017 director of Globe’s Start Up training for emerging artists. Johanna a 2020 graduate of the San Diego 4 Feldenkrais Professional Training Program and an Authorized Trainee Awareness Through Movement® teacher.
Jayden Pfeifer is a Regina-based artist whose work in theatre and improvisation, as creator and performer, has spanned the last 22 years. He holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Regina (2003), and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies (2017), specializing in Improvisation and Ensemble Facilitation. He currently teaches Improvisation for the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the UofR. Pfeifer’s monthly comedy variety show, Red Hot Riot with Jayden Pfeifer, ran for seven seasons in Regina, and he hosted the monthly comedy show TALKIES at the RPL Film Theatre from 2013-2020. Jayden is an Associate Artist for Curtain Razors Theatre, and has appeared in Curtain Razors' productions of Live Duet, Bad Blood, and Carmen Angel, performs regularly in Burnt Sienna with Kris Alvarez, and was a producer and lead artist for Curtain Razors’ Trespassers Waltz, as part of National Arts Centre’s ‘Grand Acts of Theatre’. Jayden directed wanisiniwin/ kwêski-pimâtisiw for Globe Theatre in 2020, and recently co-directed Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion for Globe alongside Erin Goodpipe. Alongside collaborators Johanna Bundon and Lee Henderson, Jayden co-created and has performed in multiple iterations of Untitled Peter Tripp Project; a project that has been ongoing since 2018.
