Brain Body Connection Newton Moraes #2
by Free Flow Dance Theatre Inc.Monday, 11 July 2022 from 2:30 PM (CDT) to 4:00 PM (CDT)224 25th St. W. , Saskatoon, SK S7L 0C4
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Overview
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.
Our bodies, imagery and inner voices
Since the beginning of time, humans were interested in one another. Thoughts, smells, character, personality, affection, love. Nowadays we are becoming less connected with each other and ourselves, but we are all trying to learn from each other as we explore the fluidity of our sexuality, genders, feelings and emotions.
Newton Moraes will use imagery inspired by landscapes and animals to help us unleash our body parts through repetitive movements and find different ways to create awareness of the body as story /timeline /construction in space. We will discuss spatial awareness: individual, public, collective and private space will be explored.
During the workshop we will be letting emotions flow, daring to take risks that change our movement styles as well as developing gestures from subtle to more directed, affirmative, powerful or even dramatic or violent expressions through the exploration of timeless or loopy phrases.
Newtons Website: https://newtonmoraesdancetheatre.com/
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Newtons Biography:
Newton was born in Porto Alegre – Brazil.
In 1991 he decided to move to Toronto with the support of his partner world renown Anthropologist Robert Shirley who was a full time professor at University of Toronto. When arrived in Toronto he studied Modern and Contemporary Dance at the Professional Programme at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Newton Moraes had several mentors over the years and amazing artists that influence his work including workshops in Butoh with Natsu Nakajima, Lee Ann Smith, in contemporary dance with Pierre Paul Savoie and Jeff Hall, David Dorfmann, Fiona Marcotti, Chandralekha, and a Master workshop in Choreography with Danny Grossman. Newton’s mentors include Jean Sasportes, Franco Boni, Fred Traugth David Earle, Patricia Beatty, Danny Grossman, Patrick Parson (African Dance – Toronto), Marcelo do Nascimento and José do Nascimento (Brazil). Further studies were made in Releasing Technique with Stephanie Scura, Improvisation with Denise Fujiwara, Kurt Jooss Technique with Fred Traguth, and Afro-Brazilian Spiritual Dance with Pai Beto do Xangó Aganju.
Since his arrival in Canada in 1991, Moraes has choreographed more than fifty works, both for himself and other dancers. Newton has collaborated with choreographer Patrick Parson in “Orixás Voice” (2003) and Dancing Spirits” (2004) two new dances created by the Ballet Creole for their season at the Premiere Dance Theatre at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. Newton also collaborated with Terrill Maguire in “Crazy to be born” (2003) at the World’s Fare Festival at Harbourfront Centre and Alexandro Ronceria in “Agua” (2004) at the Planet IndigenUS Festival in the water at the HarbourfrontCentre.
Newton Moraes has received support from the Department of Foreign Affairs to tour Newton Moraes Dance Theatre to Porto Alegre and São Paulo in Brazil and created cultural exchanges with Gregorio Trejo Garcia of Ultimo Tren of Mexico City and the noted choreographer Fred Traguth from Germany. In 1997, he founded Newton Moraes Dance Theatre and he was invited by the District Institute of Culture and Tourism of Bogotá, Colombia to choreograph a contemporary dance piece. The work “Juegos de Amor / Love Games” was the result of his three months of work and was presented in the Teatro Municipal Jorge Eliecer Gaitan with a total audience of 3.500 in 4 performances. Moraes recently returned to Brazil were he and his company performed in 14 cities including Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The Foreign Affairs Canada, the Canadian Consulate in Sao Paulo, Canadian Embassy in Brasilia, Choreographic Centre of the city of Rio de Janeiro and City of Rio de Janeiro officially supported this tour. His work has received public and critic claimed in Canada, Colombia, Brasil, Germany, Cuba and USA.
Newton Moraes was a board member of Dance Ontario Association for more than six years and is a member of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists (C.A.D.A.). He was in the Faculty at the Ballet Creole school of Performing Arts in Toronto for many years teaching Brazilian, African-Brazilian, contemporary dance and choreography. Newton Moraes has also received the Ontario Arts Council Artist in Education Grant to teach in the schools across the Province of Ontario in and Travel Grants from Ontario Arts Council. Newton Moraes studied on 2011/2011 for one year a Master in Fine Arts in Choreography with a scholarship at York University and currently he teacher at The Theatre Department at Humber College at the Lakeshore Campus and at the Dark Side Studio at Kensington Market.