Studio Showing & Workshop with Sarah Bild & Susanna Hood
STUDIO SHOWING
Frying Pan: an informal evening of movement, sound, and text
Day: Tuesday, July 28th
Time: 7:00 PM
Cost: $15
WORKSHOP
Pulling from their practices of Open Source Forms and Action Theater, Susanna Hood and Sarah Bild will guide participants through physical and sensory awakening of the body/mind to prepare for improvisational explorations in relation to self, others and space. We will work with movement, voice as sound and voice as language. Inviting breath and imagery into the physical self, we will practice noticing, experiencing and responding to outside and personal impulses.
Day: Wednesday, July 29th
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cost: $30
** Sarah & Susanna will be available for one-on-one meetings with any artists interested in receiving feedback on their work. If you are interested, please reach out to [email protected] to arrange.**
Instructor Biographies
Sarah Bild, dance/performance artist and choreographer, has been creating, teaching and performing in Montreal and throughout Canada for the last 30 years. She teaches composition at l’EDCM and is a certified teacher of Action Theater. Sarah Bild follows an instinctual stream of physical imagery to create deeply textured and organic works of dance. Through the use of viscerally embodied movement, voice and text, she creates visually impressive solo and group
works that raise questions about our human presence on this planet. Her recent in situ improvisational work became the basis for the making of three short films in collaboration with photographer Caroline Hayeur. Le Poids du lieu, a virtual choreography in 3 acts has enjoyed success in film festivals around the world.
https://sarahbild.ca/
Action Theater is a unique form of improvisational theatre developed by the American performance artist, Ruth Zaporah. Fundamental to the practice is an embodied presence in performance, where the experiencing of the body informs the content of the moment, moment by moment.
Susanna Hood is a Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal-based dance artist, musician and educator. For over two decades, she has devoted her career to synthesizing voice and movement, creating intimate and sensual performances in both dance-theatre and improvised music contexts. Since 2004, Susanna has been teaching improvisation, composition, and voice and movement synthesis in various institutions and through independent workshops across Canada and internationally. She is a certified teacher (2010) and teacher trainer (2013) of Open Source Forms (OSF), a practice fluidly expanded from Skinner Releasing Technique. In 2023 she completed the inaugural 2-year teacher training in Emotionally Integrated Voice with her teacher of 20 years, Fides Krucker.
http://susannahood.ca/teaching/
Open Source Forms (OSF) founded by American dance artist and master teacher Stephanie Skura in 2008 is a fluid expansion of Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), developed as a revolutionary way of learning by Joan Skinner in the 1960’s. The work focuses on the cross-fertilization of physical practice and creative process. It is guided by the philosophy that the source of creativity and physical wisdom is available in each of us and can be accessed through the shedding of limiting holding patterns.
