From: Suzanne Liska Subject: Contact Improv and Ensemble Workshops - Feb.5 discount rate Hi people, I'm teaching 6 Sunday workshops from 2-6pm, in Contact Improv and/or Ensemble, starting Feb. 15 until June 17. The workshops will be taught using a student-centered research approach, where you will have opportunities to direct the learning and sometimes will be called on to take roles of leadership and facilitation. There are discounts if you sign up for more than one workshop, see below for the rates. Hope you can join me! Suzanne Contact Improv Dance Workshops: Sunday Workshops from 2-6pm All Levels April 1, 2012 - Duets within Ensemble June 10, 2012 - Momentum and Direction *Intermediate/Advanced Feb 12, 2012 - Timing for flight April 15, 2012 - Trios in Motion We will research how directing our movement and thoughts can guide us towards greater ease and options in partnering. The Contact Improv skills taught in the workshops will include both softer rolling points and dynamic lifts. Exercises will guide you to access your core-support, spiral, and multi-dimensionality. We will learn to listen and respond in the moment to ourselves, partner/s and the space around us. The exercises taught are informed by the Alexander Technique principles of whole body integration and freeing patterns of tension to find more effortless and efficient partnering. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spontaneous Composition: Improv Ensemble Dance Workshops Sunday Workshops from 2-6pm April 1 – Duets within Ensemble May 13 - Habits & Choices June 17 - “Ready for anything, prepared for nothing” (F.M. Alexander) We will draw from insights of the natural world to deepen our research in group improvisation. Drawing from nature we will uncover our instincts to respond to others, to our own emotions and body, and to the environment around us. Scores will be taught to develop awareness of the choices available to us on how, when, and in what way to respond with our whole self. How our choices affect others, ourselves and the environment will be explored. Be ready for anything! We will create movement as a group in the moment, exploring physical, spatial, emotional, rhythmical, and vocal scores. Solos, duets, and trios will be framed within the ensemble. Movement exercises will be taught to engage your imagination and will draw upon your body and mind as inspiration to dance. The exercises will awaken your spatial perception while deepening your connection with yourself in relation to others. The last half hour of each workshop will be open for the public to witness and view our process. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Location: 3rd Floor Dovercourt House 805 Dovercourt Rd. (One block north of Bloor, West of Ossington) Toronto $60/workshop for CI and/or Ensemble Discounts before Feb. 5: 30% off 3 workshops 40% off 4 workshops or more CADA/AEA/Stu: 5% additional discount *Int/Adv: Intermediate to advanced level (min. one year of regular CI practice or equivalent). No-drop ins. Pre-registration required. Registration: Suzanne Liska suzliska@yahoo.com 416-704-8096 www.Contactimprov.ca/on/toronto Suzanne Liska is a dance artist and teacher and Co-Artistic Director of Flightworks with Diana Groenendijk. She is also the co-founder of the aLOFT Project, a Toronto Improv performance ensemble with guest dancers from Canada, USA, and Europe. As a company dancer for Kathleen Rea's REAson d'etre Dance Productions, Suzanne danced in the three times Dora Award nominated "Long Live" and most recently in June 2011, for "Vivid 4". Suzanne has danced in film for Karen Kaeja's "Mika's Alley" which screened at the American Dance Festival. She has also danced for choreographers Sue Lee and Pam Johnson and has performed at Dusk Dances, Dance Matters, Art Whispers, DARK, and Harbourfront Centre, as well as many other venues and festivals. Suzanne teaches professional dancers, actors, high school and elementary school students, and community dancers. Her teaching is informed by studies with Pam Johnson, Nina Martin, "Viewpoints" approaches, and the Alexander Technique. Suzanne is currently a faculty teacher at the Randolph Academy for Performing Arts.