Brain Body Connection workshop #2 Jackie Latendresse

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.

Discovering and Developing Authentic Movement

Jackie Latendresse - Artistic Director Free Flow Dance Theatre Company

Jackie endeavours to communicate her own passion for movement and dance to her students. She believes that a motivated and passionate teacher creates motivated and passionate student behaviours. Jackie cultivates an environment that is a “safe” place to explore physical creativity by providing knowledge and respect for the materials and exercises yet believes in maintaining a sense of “play within work”. We can learn to combine critical thinking and creativity to problem solve. This combination of theory and activity is essential to enhance our life long relationship with our minds, bodies and spirits. It is essential for the continual development of our craft.

In order to find and develop authentic movement, we will push past our movement comfort zones into new methods of moving. We need to learn to recognise and when needed, discard old movement behaviours and patterns to make room for new ones. 

Using imagery and precise directives the class will attempt to find authenticity through movement with a focus on communication. It is possible to discuss and describe complex ideas through movement in a clear way. Come with ideas for current or future work, newer choreographies and movement explorations. Bring a notebook.