Stream of Dance Festival
FREE WORKSHOPS
JUNE 6-11, 2023
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JUNE 6-11, 2023
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Energy Fitness:
These classes focus on developing the skills of recognizing, sensing, cultivating and circulating energy. Overall, the work reduces stress and increases vitality. The practice integrates and harmonizes the body, emotion and mind: empowering the imagination, increasing creative potential, lifting the heart and vitalizing the body. The material is based on Master Lee Holden’s Qi Gong techniques. Classes are one hour in duration, including physical warmups and Qi Gong flow movement patterns and ending with a short meditation. Anatomy Of A Choreography: Anatomy of a Choreography is an audiovisual lecture format presentation. It provides a platform for a choreographer to share the details and stages of a choreographic process with members of the discipline, artists of other disciplines and interested members of the general public. Davida Monk has presented Anatomy of Choreography presentations in Calgary, Vancouver and Winnipeg. At New Dance Horizons 2023 Stream of Dance Festival Monk will lead presentation attendees through an in-depth exploration of the making of her work The Call (2016, 2018). Monk will scan the entire creative process from inception to realization, touching on concept, background detail, research, and movement creation. The presentation includes images, sounds and design elements that played a significant creative role. The hour-long presentation will end with a Q & A session. Here is what reviewer Stephen Bonfield had to say about The Call: "But the highlight of the night was Davida Monk’s The Call, set in a choreographic language that glistened with an endless variety of kinetics, derived from a series of set movement ideas. The work is rhapsodic in its individual poetry, but compelling in its collective ensemble work too at many points, featuring momentary duos of spacious richness which can only come from an experienced well-practised combinatorial imagination. Monk choreographs with a seemingly endless surfeit of lyrical beauty." -Stephen Bonfield, The Calgary Herald, July 2016 |
Energy Fitness Dates & Times:
Anatomy Of A Choreography Date & Time:
University of Regina, Riddell Centre, RC 176 (The Blue Room) Cost: Free-of-charge, registration is required. (Donations are welcome) |
Master Class
Re-awaken the joy of movement using dance exercises, games and imagery. This workshop is tailored to the students. Beginners gain a better understanding of the body, while the more experienced acquire a greater knowledge of their unique way of expression. Participants are sensitized to the links between thoughts, emotions and movement. Emphasis is on observing the natural kinetic process: how our “inner landscape”, generated by electric impulses, is expressed in the muscles through movement. This in turn can support health, injury prevention, and convalescence. Movement for Aging with Joy
Re-awaken the joy of movement using dance exercises, games and imagery. This workshop is tailored to the students. Beginners gain a better understanding of the body, while the more experienced acquire a greater knowledge of their unique way of expression. Participants are sensitized to the links between thoughts, emotions and movement. Emphasis is on observing the natural kinetic process: how our “inner landscape”, generated by electric impulses, is expressed in the muscles through movement. This in turn can support health, injury prevention, and convalescence. For ages 40 & up. |
Dates & Times:
Masterclass
Location: Masterclass
Cost: Free-of-charge, registration is required. (Donations are welcome) |
Class Description:
Itcush Method aims to improve posture, align the skeleton and build functional movement patterns. The Itcush Method uses principles of the Mitzvah Technique to teach self-maintenance exercises. The outcome is improved physical function, freedom from pain and renewed connection with daily movements. All levels welcome, no equipment needed. |
Dates & Times:
Location: University of Regina, Riddell Centre, RC 176 (The Blue Room) Cost: Free-of-charge, registration is required. (Donations are welcome) |
Class Description:
Metis Square-Dancing is a cultural dance that has its roots in European and Indigenous dance forms and has become a part of the unique cultural heritage of the Metis peoples. The square-dance is a partnered pattern dance to fiddle music, often dance at social gatherings. The footwork consists of the traditional jig step. |
Date & Time:
Tuesday, June 6, 2023, 2:30pm-3:30pm Location: University of Regina, Riddell Centre, RC 176 (The Blue Room) Cost: Free-of-charge, registration is required. (Donations are welcome) |