Brain Body Connection Caroline Niklas Gordon 1
by Free Flow Dance Theatre Inc.Monday, 10 May 2021 from 2:30 PM (CDT) to 4:00 PM (CDT)
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Overview
Professional and emerging dancers are welcome to attend the online zoom platform based Brain-Body Connection Professional Development Series hosted by Free Flow Dance Theatre free of charge. If you would like and can afford to make a donation 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, City of Saskatoon and Sasktel.
Caroline will be teaching on May 10 and 17, 2:30-4 pm. Please note you must register individually for each workshop thank you.
Physical Howl is a guided movement that is accompanied by vocalization. The added use of sound being expelled further enables for the practising bodies to release tension.
It begins softly; fluidly discovering the soft tissues of the anatomy. Vocalisation is added slowly, instinctually and only once the mover is ready. As we explore larger movements, and the body becomes warmer participants will be guided to play with a variety of sounds. It is a joyful approach to expelling anxiety and tension brought on by so many life events. Once the body becomes more enlivened the voice comes more naturally which creates a wonderfully harmonious, non-judgemental conversation between the body and mind.
The practice incorporates some of the Somatic work I have studied through Anne Troake and Tedi Tafel over a span of 20 years.
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Over the past 20 years Caroline has had the privilege of dancing in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. Her career began at The National Ballet (Prague). Further down the line she was fortunate to work with some of North America’s most celebrated choreographers, which include Peter Anastos, Peggy Baker, David Earle, Vicki St.Denis, and Anne Troake.
Caroline has a dance performance diploma from George Brown College and holds a teaching certificate from The Royal Academy of Dance. She has taught ballet and contemporary dance extensively for over 30 years. She is on faculty at Broadway Arts Centre and is bringing dance into public schools in and around the GTA.
In 2016 Caroline was cast in Jenn Goodwin’s If I should Stumble. That year she also participated in a 4-week residency in St.John’s, Newfoundland where she developed a new work by Sarah Joy Stoker, our heart bleeds. The work showcased at The Festival of New Dance. Over the summer of 2017 and 2018, she worked on dances by Anne Troake and Christopher House which premiered in St.John’s, Newfoundland and Toronto in 2019. On April 27, 2019, her series, Words & Motion featured dancer Jamee Valin, author Marianne Apostolides and photographer Melanie Gordon
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