WINTER INTENSIVE
December 9 – 13, 2019
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver)
Courtyard Studio
Led by Company 605’s co-director, Josh Martin, and special guest artist Alanna Kraaijeveld, each day of Winter Intensive will be comprised of three parts: Movement Technique, Repertoire, and a Creation Lab.
Movement Technique will be led by Alanna Kraaijeveld (Montreal), informed by her extensive experience as an improviser and Fighting Monkey practitioner. Josh Martin will then teach Repertoire from Company 605’s past and current works, learning various excerpts and movement language from the company’s highly physical pieces. The Creation Lab will be co-led by Josh and Alanna, focusing on investigating collaborative dance-making, from the roles of both creators and interpreters. They will provide various concepts and starting points for explorations, and participants will access their own choreographic interests and movement choices. Throughout the intensive, short collaborations will be attempted, where the group will practice and apply approaches to shared process, experiencing negotiation and compromise, and challenging their own habits around creative research with new resources and ways in which to consider and embody choreographic proposals.
DAILY SCHEDULE
Movement Technique with Alanna: 10 am – 12 pm
Repertoire with Company 605: 12:30 – 2:30 pm
Creation Lab with Alanna and Company 605: 3:15 – 5:00 pm
FEES
Regular Registration
On or after November 13, 2019
$399 = $380 + $19 (5% GST)
To register, download and complete a registration form (note: if you’re an SFU Student, use this form instead) and return it to info@company605.ca, or by mail to:
104-336 East 1st Avenue
Vancouver, BC
V5L 4R6
Payment can be made using PayPal, or by cheque payable to Company 605.
Technique with Alanna Kraaijeveld
Collaborative games and improvisatory tasks are employed to determine and stimulate those areas where mobility, coordination, and perception are limited or less integrated. Class is a dynamic practice that is physically and mentally rigorous.
Fighting Monkey (FM) movement situations will be offered, specifically FM practice ball work and principles of how lower body capacity influences kinetic potential. The proposed practice fosters strength, adaptability and softness.
About Alanna
Alanna is interested in how playfulness can contribute to a mobility of concepts and physicality, and to meaningful connections to material. She offers practical frames. She is curious about the role that assumptions and habits play in the creative process and, as in class, explores ways to expose and destabilize them. As such, Kraaijeveld embraces a spectrum of resources during choreographic research, including boredom, banality, tangents, endurance and failure.
She is a close student of Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek, developers of Fighting Monkey Practice (FM). FM is an evolving movement practice centered on context driven, collaborative practices that harness physiology and whole-body coordination through play to accelerate skill development.
Since 2015, Alanna’s workshops, classes, and movement coaching embrace FM’s values and approach. She has taught at institutions and organizations including ESAD (Paris), Circolando (Portugal), Concordia University, EDCM and Studio 303 (Montréal), St-Thomas University (Fredericton), T.O. Love-In (Toronto), Company 605 and Modus Operandi (Vancouver).
Kraaijeveld holds a Master’s degree of Professional Practice (Dance Technique Pedagogy) from Middlesex University in London, England.
For more information about Alanna Kraaijeveld’s teaching initiatives: https://www.facebook.com/performingartisttrainingmontreal/
Questions? Email info@company605.ca or call 605.683.6552.
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Company 605”s Winter Intensive is made possible through the generous support of the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts.
