Being & Seeing In Solo with George Stamos
Dates:
June 10th - 14th
Days:
Monday - Friday
Times:
6:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Cost:
$175/all five days
Class Description:
This five-day workshop (two hours a day) offers an overview and practice of several strategies and methods for creating solo material, including somatic work, working with objects, compositional structures, rhythms, and gender play. The warm-up will activate participants' proprioception, tone and gaze before they practice exercises that generate personalized choreographic material. Each day, participants will be guided in the creation of short solo studies, developing observational skills and ways of talking about dance objectively and with precision. By the end of the week, each participant will have developed a three to five min solo that will be shared in an informal presentation as part of the Stream of Dance Festival.
Teacher Bio:
I am a Montréal-based choreographer, dancer, educator, filmmaker, consultant, and administrator working in contemporary dance. I have a BFA in Choreography from Amsterdam University of the Arts. I work at an intersection between physical labour, Queer aesthetics and ideas. My creations are invitations to reflect on aspects of the human condition. The major themes in my body of work are resilience, resistance, gender play and transformation. My studies of a wide range of Occidental and African dance practices with master choreographers/teachers have significantly nourished my artistic practice and worldview. My academic studies of the history of communication studies, gender, neurodiversity, and sexuality inform my creative projects. My body/mind is a library I continually update and share with others as a place of reflection, expression and incantation.
