Brain Body Connection Alex Hartshorn 1
by Free Flow Dance Theatre Inc.Monday, 28 October 2024 from 5:30 PM (CST) to 7:00 PM (CST)224 25th St. W. , Saskatoon, SK S7L 0C4
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Overview
Professional and emerging dancers are welcome to attend the Brain-Body Connection Professional Development Series hosted by Free Flow Dance Theatre free of charge. If you would like and can afford to donate to support the future of the company please do! We are pleased to host this series of workshops with the support of the Community Initiative Fund.
Bringing Movement to Life: Exploring the Effort Drive in Performance, Dance, and Choreography
These workshops would be specifically for physical performers/actors/dancers, and would focus on exploring the Effort Drive, a concept of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies (LBMS)
The Effort Drive encapsulates emotion (telling the story of it through the body, not necessarily feeling emotions), so exploring the different efforts in movement, dance, and choreography helps to bring authenticity, relatability, aliveness and more vitality and clarity to movements, characters, and/or storyline.
Workshop 1:
Introduction to the Effort Drive. We will explore the different efforts and how they are connected through brief study and personal exploration of them through movement expression and imagery. We will also explore authentic ways of moving and incorporating efforts solo, in partnerships, and in a group(s).
Details
Alex Hartshorn is a performer, movement artist, and certified counsellor specializing in somatics and body-mind wellness. Alex has been engaging in movement arts and somatics in different forms for decades, starting in dancing styles such as ballet and Ukrainian folk, then moving into theatre and physical storytelling, then studying psychology and body-mind healing. Alex began exploring Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies (LBMS) during actor training at the U of S in 2010. For performance, the framework is used to expand awareness and creativity in using the body to portray different characters/stories. For life and overall well-being, the same framework, among other somatic modalities, is connected to our functioning and ways of being in the world. Experiencing physical movement and personal expression together can result in a richer story, more authenticity and aliveness, and an empowerment of choice and agency. The themes of movement are themes of life!
Attendees
- Jennifer Nikolai
- Anonymous