Brain Body Connection Gerry Morita and Richard Lee
by Free Flow Dance Theatre Inc.Monday, 26 July 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.
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Gerry Morita (BA Dance/ MFA Theatre) has lived and worked in Vancouver, Montréal, and Tokyo as a dancer, choreographer, performance artist and teacher before moving to Edmonton and becoming Mile Zero Dance’s Artistic Director in 2006. Her work has toured Poland, Turkey, Estonia, Canada, and Japan. Morita’s body of work involves continuous inquiry into new ways of seeing movement, the body, and the spaces between us. She studies and teaches contact improvisation, Noguchi Taiso and other somatic-based and improving techniques, working with artists from all disciplines in a vast array of both conventional and site-specific venues. She has received the Mayor’s Award for Innovation in Artistic Direction, the Edmonton Salute for Excellence, Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund and was one of Alberta’s 25 Influential Artists recognized in 2016.
Richard Lee is a performer, creator, and educator based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). In addition to B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Alberta, he has independently trained in contemporary dance across North America and Europe. Past adventures with Mile Zero include Night Cuts, R.V. There Yet?, Archival B.A.M., Dances & Devices, Endangered Species, and Knowledge Box. He has also danced in works for Mélanie Demers, The Good Women Dance Collective, Tania Alvarado, kloetzl& co., Amber Borotsik, Cloudsway Dance Theatre, and Troy Emery Twigg, among others. His own creations (dance, theatre, and stuff-in-between) have been presented by Mile Zero Dance, The Good Women Dance Collective, The Expanse Festival, Dancers' Studio West, and CanAsian Dance. In 2015, he was honoured with a Sterling Award for his work on The Antyssey, co-written with Joel Crichton.
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