Summer School
with
Carol Prieur and Tony Chong
​July 8th - 14th 
A week research, training and performance creation with Carol Prieur and Tony Chong 

at New Dance Horizons Studio 2207 Harvey Street, Regina, SK

Sunday July 8:   4 pm - 8 pm:                                          
We will gather and share a meal together
Monday July 9 - Friday July 13 
10 am - 11:30 am:         
Morning Training with Carol Prieur                             
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm:       
Afternoon session with Tony Chong & Carol Prieur
Friday July 13:  
​Performance at 7:30 pm in a Secret Garden (TBA)
Saturday July 14:  
​Performance at 12 noon in a Secret Garden (TBA)

Cost:
drop-in morning class: $ 30
morning classes bundle of 5: $125
complete Workshop (early bird until June 24): $ 350
complete workshop: $ 425

Only morning sessions can be attended as drop-ins. 

The week will consist of a morning training with Carol Prieur. 
We will be diving into a physical workout using imagery and somatic fluidity to bring consciousness to the architecture of the body in an influenced formalized class structure. How to maintain our poetry and creative spirit within a more conventional environment. 
​The afternoons will be a movement orientated research triggered by memory and food led by Tony Chong and Carol Prieur.
The creative research will be July 8th to 14th including performance. July 8th: 4pm - 8pm we will gather and share a meal together.
A Final Performance Event will be held in conjunction with NDH 21st Secret Gardens Tour July 14th at 12 noon in a secret garden!

“Remember not to forget” is a creative research which is inspired by the story of Hansel and Gretel. We will be building an installation/performance that is a visual, physical, gastronomic, and sensoral journey. This research is a true laboratory where we are exploring ideas around food memories from which we will then integrate into performance concepts. Entering into the past in order to find the present and to understand the future. Researching how performance could maybe become an exchange, a conversation, a part of our journey together.
Using food as the basis, we are researching how personal memories are directly associated with the preparation and eating of a meal. We are exploring how food has the potential to spark cerebral and physical sensations related to a specific experience, place, or time in a person’s life. The scent, appearance, texture and taste of a food can awaken the past, transporting one back to childhood or to maybe even a moment which is more of a suppressed traumatic event or one of even ecstatic pleasure.
This is about the mind, body and our relationship to food. Where the body is a house for our memories. How through the evolution of time, through decay and change, memories may remain alive or lie dormant within the tissues of our being. Food then has the potential of being a key ingredient to unlocking those memories.

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CAROL PRIEUR started her career with Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers. She has worked with the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault. Grants permitted her to pursue her studies in New York, Europe and India where she was initiated into Kalarypayattu, an Indian martial art form. Since she became a member of COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD in 1995, three solos have been created for her: Humanitas, Étude Poignante, and Mouvements. She received an Award for Best Performance in Marie Chouinard’s film, Cantique no. 1, at the Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video Award in Toronto. In 2010, Carol was named Dancer of the Year by the magazine TANZ. In 2014, she is the first recipient for the Prix de la Danse de Montréal – INTERPRÈTE.
Carol is a performer with the Compagnie Marie Chouinard for the past 23 years, during which she has also had the opportunity to be involved in various creative projects with a variety of  inspiring artists across Canada. 

TONY CHONG is a choreographer, dancer, performer, and creative director. He has an eclectic and curious appetite for many forms of creativity which has led him to work in dance, circus, theatre, new media technology, film, cooking, and photography. Tony has been a recipient of both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseils des Arts et des Lettres du Québec for his creative pursuits and works.
Chong recently returned to Montreal from being on tour with Cirque du Soleil as the Artistic Assistant Director on the show Totem. From 2012 to 2016, Tony worked as Artistic Director/Rehearsal Director on tour with La Compagnie Marie Chouinard. From 2005–2008, Tony was the Co-Artistic Director and then the Artistic Director of Le Groupe Dance Lab in Ottawa, Ontario.
After receiving his Bachelors of Arts degree with a major in Dance at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, he continued his studies in New York at NYU's The Tisch School for the Arts and in San José, California with The Limon West and The Limon Company, Quickly after his studies, Chong began working with Kokoro Dance Theatre and other local Vancouver choreographers such as the late Grant Strate. Before setting his sights on Montréal, he danced in the works of Tom Stroud and Tedd Robinson with The Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg.Since moving to Montreal, Tony had a prolific career as a dancer with La Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Carbon 14, La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, Dominique Porte's Système D, Louise Bedard Danse, José Navas' Compagnie Flak, Sinha Danse, Germany’s Steptext Dance Theatre. Most recently, he has been performing in the Michael Montanaro/Navid Navab/Jerome Delapierre/Tony Chong collaboration of the mixed media solo called Practices of Everyday LIfe/Cooking.
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www.tonythecompany.com
www.icebergcreation.com
www.tonychong.wordpress.com

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