Brain Body Connection Workshop 1 - Lucy Rupert
by Free Flow Dance Theatre Inc.Monday, 25 May 2020 from 2:15 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.
Lucy Rupert will be teaching on May 25th and June 1st 2:30-4 pm CST
Imaginative Body Classes
Align your physicality with your imagination. Source your personal imagery. Get the body moving, get the mind flowing.Developed for actors, musicians, dancers and people who like to move, the classes connect anatomical (both metaphoric and actual) imagery to the inherent poetry and virtuosity in the body. The classes can be used as exploration for choreography or character, but are intended primarily to offer the practice of being present, paying deep attention to the messages and impulses of the body and to allow participants to exert themselves in a pleasurable way.
The classes unite influences from Lucy's training and performance experience in butoh, post-modern improvisation, contemporary dance, yoga and theatre. Other influences include Lucy's childhood growing up with conservationist/naturalist parents. There is a strong connection to the imagery of nature, the instincts of the body that lie under intellectual pursuits, and the imagery of physics and cosmology.These classes are fun and rigorous and connect people to new aspects of their physicality. We work through improvised explorations, breaking habits, discovering new strengths and how images can support the technical aspects of performance.
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Details
How to join! When you register for your spot in the workshop you will receive an email with the information on how to join us via the Zoom Platform along with the appropriate password. Please plan to sign in to the workshop platform between 2:15 and 2:30pm CST.
Our guest Instructor - Lucy Rupert - May 25 and June 1 2020
Lucy Rupert is the artistic director of Blue Ceiling dance, through which she creates, commissions, produces and performs. Her repertoire has toured throughout Ontario and to New York and Germany, presented by the National Ballet of Canada (Choreographic Workshop), DanceWorks, Dance Ontario, Dusk Dances, dance: made in Canada/fait au Canada, the Stuttgart Solo International Tanz Theater Festival and WAXWorks Brooklyn.
Lucy’s work embodies her strong curiosity about the translation of ideas from science into physical, dynamic practice, and a reverence for intergenerational casts and diverse bodies. Lucy writes about the art-science intersection on her blog, blueceilingdancer.blogspot.com, including interviews with prominent local scientists and reflections on creative works from this intersectional perspective.
As a freelance artist in theatre and dance, Lucy has performed for Fujiwara Dance Inventions, Theatre Rusticle, Marie-Josée Chartier, Nova Bhattacharya, Theatre Passe-Muraille, William Yong, Sashar Zarif, Anandam Dance, Puppetmongers Theatre, and Circus Orange, among others.
Lucy has a Joint B.A. in Dance and Music from the University of Waterloo, and an M.A. in History from the University of Toronto. Lucy recently received an Audience Choice Award for her performance at the 2017 dance: made in Canada Festival; she is a two-time Chalmers Fellowship recipient and a two-time nominee for the K.M. Hunter Award in Dance and a finalist in the inaugural Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Awards of 2019. She is a mom, a conservationist and an astrophysics enthusiast.
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