2012 May 11 - 13
Updated: 2012-02-21 12:14 EST
Ontario Regionand we'll treat you like family!
We never get BEYOND the fundamentals. We can only aspire to master them.
- Mark Koenig
For people who are completely new or fairly new to contact improv, the Ontario Regional Contact Jam is offering a Very Basics Introduction to Contact Improvisation
The aim is to provide a fun, safe intro to some principles and practices for people to then begin dancing at the Jam that very weekend (and elsewhere).
The class is included as part of the Ontario Regional Contact Jam weekend admission. Guests not subscribed to the full weekend pay $10 for the class and may stay for any part of the jam at $5/hour. Come play with us!
Come with loose-fitting or yoga clothes and prepared to dance in bare feet. For more information about the intro class, contact the facilitator Henry Wai at wai_renooy@sympatico.ca or 416-913-8861.
Naomi Sparrow Has been dancing since she was a wee lass, in the Gatineau Hills. Early studies in yoga and modern dance, gave way to intensive explorations of technique and patterning. Starting with Bartenieff Fundamentals and Laban Analysis, she moved into voice and movement improvisation, moving/sounding/drawing practices, Body-Mind Centering®, Authentic Movement, and a passionate love of Contact Improvisation.
Naomi taught Contact Improvisation as well as moving/sounding/writing practice in Ottawa for over a decade, until Body-Mind Centering®, mothering and private practice took over.
She is a certified Teacher and Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering® and a certified Infant Movement Developmental Educator. She has been teaching since 1991, and has maintained a private practice since 1995. She teaches classes and workshops in Body-Mind Centering®, embodied reciprocal counseling, and creative process.
Naomi brings to her practice and teaching a unique ability to articulate subtle embodied principles. She has a passion for cultivating egalitarian relationships, nurturing the competency and authority inherent in each of her students and clients through their direct embodiment and personal exploration.
Propeller Dance is the only organization in Ontario with the sole mandate of specializing in integrated dance. Integrated dance is an emerging movement within the Canadian contemporary dance milieu where dancers with and without disabilities train, create and perform as equals. Propeller Dance work highlights the natural human body in all its diversity. Mobility aids (wheelchairs, walkers and scooter) within choreography offer creative possibilities and new ways of travelling, lifting and balancing are invented. Propeller Dance is off-balance, on-balance, in-line, out of line, challenging, powerful and emotive in its ability to move audiences of all ages. Disability is seen as an opportunity for creative possibility, not a limitation.
Propeller Dance is recognized nationally and internationally for its leadership furthering integrated dance and is committed to creating high-quality professional art. We have shown work at Studio 303, Montreal; Vertigo Theatre, Calgary; the National Arts Centre’s Fourth Stage, Ottawa; Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre, Ottawa and numerous other professional and community venues. Propeller Dance reaches 5000 people annually through professional performance, touring, school shows, dance training and outreach: www.propellerdance.com
Mixed Ability Dance Workshop: Our dance workshop is open to all people regardless of dance experience or experience with disability. We will spin, roll, lean and tilt, in an innovative atmosphere that values a wide range of movement expression. The workshop will also include a brief discussion on the field of integrated dance, including training opportunities nationally and internationally.
We're having a talent show and possibly other performances. We're planning for most of the performances slots to be available for short (5 minute) spur-of-the-moment ideas right at the jam itself, but if you have a prepared piece you hope to fit in, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can try to accommodate. Contact: OntJam2012@contactimprov.ca
Contact us!: OntJam2012@contactimprov.ca 613-235-6216 (Ian! Allen)
We're organizing the 2012 Ontario Regional Contact Jam, May 11 - 13, 2011, in Ottawa.
We invite all interested and committed contactors to join in the
creation of another awesome contact dance experience.
We're looking for help with all kinds of sub-projects: flyer design, advertising and promotion, specialty workshops, food, billeting, set-up and clean-up, facilitation, talent show, music, budgeting, incorporation, and all kinds of stuff we haven't thought of and you have.
We'd like to invite members of the contact improv community throughout Ontario and neighbourhood to help us pull it all together. If you've got an idea of how you can contribute, please let us know. Contact one of us, and we'll get you hooked in with the group:
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