Brain Body Connection Maxine Heppner #1
by Free Flow Dance Theatre Inc.Monday, 5 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.
CYCLES© Practice with Maxine Heppner
Deepen expression and widen your range of dance movement through awareness, alignment, and coordination of simultaneous action, attending to the breath, impulse, and energy, mobility, strength, power with ease, using the CYCLES© approach to dance practice, developed by Maxine Heppner.
Dancing is simple and delightfully complex. Through her CYCLES© Practice method, Maxine Heppner leads dancers to experience their physical body and their expressive self as intersecting parts that cycle in and out of each other. We learn movements, patterns, and rhythms. We coordinate our bones and muscles to behave with specific amounts of power and speed, to flow in specific directions. At the same time, we channel our energy, senses, thoughts through the dance we are doing. All this, and more, emanates an expressiveness shared with others. CYCLES is a mindful dance training designed for all bodies & all forms of movement. Maxine Heppner guides each person to discover, recover & enhance mobility, creative expression & pleasure of ordinary movement, and of stylized, technical and-or improvisational dance. The work is ultimately to dance your Self as Yourself.
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MAXINE HEPPNER’s evolving career since the 1970’s, through dance, theatre, traditional & martial arts, as well as neuroscience research, has led to her CYCLES© approach that examines impulse, energy & the expressive natures of dance’s many forms. Maxine is a master teacher, performer, inter-medial artist & award-winning creator of large-scale performance (“audacious”) & intimate chamber pieces (“reaching a new state of mind”) in Canada & internationally, Maxine teaches & coaches performance techniques (pure movement & interdisciplinary), choreography, integrated movement-voice technique, Action Theatre & her unique Cycles training. Maxine has been foundation building in performance education since the 1970’s. She was founding head of contemporary dance at the Claude Watson High School for Performing Arts, the Koffler Centre dance school, & award-winning Phyzikal Theatre company, & faculty at Universities of Toronto, York & Concordia & is guest artist at arts institutions & festivals across North America, East Asia, Europe & Australia. She is known for collaborative projects ranging from intimate chamber pieces to site-specific ensemble works including recent award winners KRIMA, My heart is a spoon, & Moments in Time. Her company Across Oceans Arts facilitates platforms for research & production of arts events linking artists & public across generations, disciplines, abilities & heritages, in Canada & internationally. www.acrossoceans.org