PROJECT FIVE STAR WORKSHOP
Five skills vital to performing dance improvisation:
Awareness
Sensing
Presence
Choices
Technique

Workshop Description:
An all day DANCE IMPROVISATION intensive facilitated by Karen Kaeja, Suzanne Liska and Kathleen Rea. Each facilitator will teach a short workshop where they will pass on awareness, sensory, presence, choice and technique skills unique to them. The project will culminate in a performance by the participants that draws on the day’s investigations.

Featuring Facilitators:

KAREN KAEJA is Co-AD of Kaeja d’Dance with Allen Kaeja, performing, choreographing and teaching nationally and internationally. She has created over 50 works including improvised installations like BIRDS EYE VIEW and Stable Dances. “One of Toronto’s top Improvisers” Toronto Life and in NOW Magazine’s top ten dance artists as a “champion of contact dance”, she and Allen were the first Contact teachers at Canada’s National Ballet School and for 18 years she has been a guest at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Co-Founder/AD of the Festival of Interactive Physics (FIP), her continual quest for the delivery of an authentic performance, along with physical risk and playfulness, permeates her life and her teachings. Karen was recently nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding Performance. www.kaeja.org

SUZANNE LISKA is a dance artist and educator originally from Alberta and now based in Toronto. She is Co-Artistic Director of Flight Works, a contemporary dance company specializing in theatrical Contact Dance partnering. She has danced for Choreographers Pam Johnson in Brother, can you spare a dime? 2009; Kathleen Rea in the Dora nominated Long Live 2008; and Kaeja d’Dance in the ALOFT Project, Stable Dances and Project Wildflock. Suzanne was first introduced to Contact Improv in 1998 in St.John’s, Newfoundland. She teaches Contact Improv dance in Toronto, and has also taught workshops for dance and theatre artists in Ottawa and Calgary. Pilates and Alexander Technique also inform her instructional style.

KATHLEEN REA danced with Ballet Jörgen Canada (BJC), National Ballet of Canada & Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). In 2000 she formed REAson d'etre productions to showcase her choreograpy. Kathleen has created over 30 original works for many organizations including Bravo Television, BJC, Ryerson University, Theatre Passe Muraille & Toronto Dance Theatre. Her ballet The Velveteen Rabbit was performed by BJC across North America & her award winning film Lapinthrope premiered at international festivals. Kathleen is part of the Contact community, founding the Wednesday Dance Jam. She is on faculty at George Brown College Dance (ten years) and has a Master's degree in Expressive Arts. Recently, her full length modern ballet Long Live was nominated for three DORA awards, including Outstanding New Choreography. www.reasondetre.com

Date and Time:
Sat Dec 12, 2009
10:00 am – 9:00 pm

Level:
Intermediate or advanced dance, improvisation and/or physical theatre skills.

Rate:
$80 early bird or $100 after Nov 25th
Limited number of scholarships available.

Location:
Dovercourt House Ballroom
2nd Floor, 805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto (North of Bloor)

PROJECT FIVE STAR PERFORMANCE

Description:
An improvised dance performance by participants of Project 5 Star Workshop

Date and Time:
Dec 12th, 2009
8:00 pm

Location:
Dovercourt House Ballroom
2nd Floor, 805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto (North of Bloor)

Tickets:
$10 at the door (or PWYC)

Information on Project Five Star Workshop and Performance
www.kaeja.org or www.reasondetre.com