Brain Body Connection Frank Engel #2

by Free Flow Dance Theatre Inc.Monday, 8 November 2021 from 2:30 PM (CST) to 4:00 PM (CST)224 25th St. W. , Saskatoon, SK S7L 0C4

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Professional and emerging dancers are welcome to attend either in-person (please register as such) or 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.

Plastiques

As performing artists we all – dancers, mimes and actors – depend on having a creative body.

While every human has natural creativity, there are ways and methods to uncover and enhance those potentials to give the performer an unlimited vocabulary in a language that is beyond the spoken Word.

Plastiques are the methods we are going to have a look at in this workshop.

*  Plastiques

Are exercises that help us to develop the plasticity we need to enable our body to express its creativity in a directed or guided way. Let’s say, for example, our act needs us to show water for whatever purpose, our body has to present the qualities of water.  It is liquid, heavy, it moves in waves or flows. This is where Plastiques helps us to access our physical creativity to identify with water and therefore create it in our world and hence, make it visible to the audience. In combination with the Toc impulse that was briefly touched on in Workshop I this creates Magic.

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Frank started taking Ballet classes at the age of 15 at the Clara Gora Institute for Ballet and dance in Wiesbaden Germany in 1979. After seeing Marcel Marceau in 1981 he fell in love with the art of Mime and its potential of expression not just on a narrative level but, just like dance, also on a poetic and emotional level that speaks beyond Words.

While continuing his Ballet training, he started taking Mime classes with many different teachers throughout Germany until he started his mandatory military service as a conscientious objector for 20 months in 1984, during which he also, thanks to his supportive supervisor, created his first solo performances. 

After his service he moved to West Berlin in 1985 to study Mime in the Polish tradition created by Henryk Tomaszewski as a student of Andrzej Szczużewski, a principal member of the National Polish Mime Theatre in Wrozlaw, who taught at The Etage, a multidisciplinary college for Theatre Arts.

During this time he cofounded the Berlin Mime Company with Andrzej as director/choreographer.

In 1989 he got his degree in Mime, Acting and Modern Dance (Limon Technique).

Since then he has worked as a mime, dancer, actor, director, choreographer and teacher in Europe, Turkey Canada. He moved to Saskatoon in 2003 and has worked with FreeFlow as a dancer and teacher, Persephone Theatre, GTNT (SNTC) and La Troupe du Jour as a movement coach in multiple Productions.

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Jackie Latendresse3066655998freeflowdance@gmail.com
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About This Charity

Free Flow Dance Theatre endeavours to advance dance as an art form that can be experienced and appreciated by everyone. We provide both free and ticketed events to the public and aim to create a broader understanding of the art form through enjoyable experiences.