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CREATION RESEARCH EDUCATION ~ COLLABORATIONS in CONTEMPORARY ARTS

Dance      Music      Theatre            Visual Arts     Literary Arts           Film and Media

"exposes the very heart of the human condition"  "inspiring, unsettling, beautiful"  "fresh air"


just past.....  My Heart is a Spoon   more info
“One person couldn't feel all that, they'd explode!" said Ron. "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," said Hermione.”   J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

REVIEWS here     Star  Globe&MAil  Fab  Gleaner  Nikei Times



just in   http://wp.me/phLo1-Pa

SPRING PRACTICE & CLASSES  enquire
lyonfish studios  602 Manning (near Christie) Toronto

NOTES on CHOREOGRAPHY  and Choreo Marathon   here
RESOURCES ONLINE  an NEW and growing resource page   Visit and Use it here
WRITINGS on COLLABORATION  book and dvd    ORDER  here  

RECENTLY

  Guest Artists "Lighting for the 21st Century " workshop with Fujimoto Takayuki
       at UC Drama University of Toronto, at Brock University Theatre Dept
  Speaker  "Psychonalysis and the Arts Series" with Dr. Mavis Himes
  Guest Artist "Manga from Edo to Now" Japan Foundation Toronto
  Speaker at "Tools for Transformation" Performing Arts Educators' Exchange, June 8 , Stratford

  Guest Teacher  Dance Cream Studio Kochi Japan Nov 2012, Yelp! Athens Greece Oct 2012
  a little more KRIMA!  May 31  film photos live music & dance at ANNEX LIVE   about


READY TO TOUR

MOMENTS IN TIME  solo work for intimate theatres
"the very heart of the human condition"   Globe&Mail 

KRIMA!  Big work, low tech, non-theatre

"a coups...top 10  shows of 2009"  Now 

My Heart is a Spoon   New work, dance-media
Canada-Japan co-production
looking for additional partners/presenters 
first incarnation Jan 20, 21, 22, 2012  The Theatre Centre




TRAINING & CLASSES  2011-2012 season  info
Integrated Physical and Vocal Technique: for dancers, actors, movers, sounders.
Cycles Performance and Creation Technique: breath, impulse, energy, alignment of simultaneous action. 
Intro to Action Theatre: spontaneous creation technique for movers & sounders based on the work of Ruth Zaporah.
Alignment, Bodywork, Vocal training, Choreo mentoring: privates, small groups, mentoring by arrangement.

TO READ
Writings on Collaboration  book and dvd
    : artists of the AtHOME projects      ORDER  here  

Dance Current "We are complex creatures"   page1 page 2 
Choros Magazine  about Maxine's voice-movement practice   Eng   Greek 1  Greek 2
Notes on Choreography & Choreographic Marathons   here
Indonesia connections from "Friendship beyond Borders"  published 2003    here


... KRIMA!

“a coup! simple in their power” Now Magazine, Toronto
“an audacious choreographer....headlines writ large “
classical 96.3FM Toronto

ATHENS Greece 2006
TORONTO & HAMILTON Canada 2009 

more info


in Toronto's Top Ten Dance Shows of 2009! (Now Mag)
Named with Nederlans Dance Theatre, DV8, National Ballet of Canada, TDT,
MoonHorse Dance Theatre. Congratulations! all Krim-ers, krima'ites, krimalians.

Ti Krima Maxine Heppner Young Centre Toronto Dance Ontario Across Oceans
 

KRIMA! on radio
For CBC Radio "Here and Now"
February 27,2009
Produced by John Gaudi

Media
KRIMA! On CBC Radio One
Many thanks to the Toronto Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, University College Drama at University of Toronto, the Japan Foundation and private donors for support of current projects. 

Angels are the magic that make all this possible. Share your wings. Please  DONATE HERE
Since "My heart is a spoon" ....Project coordinator  Janina Kowalski and administration associate Jonathan are both director shows for the New Ideas Festival.  Jess has been in on rehearsals for Porchview Dances to be choreographed by Maxine in July (a Kaeja d'Dance Commission).  Sue  is a Master now and just did a new dancework for the CanAsian Dance Festival.  Sarah, Andrew, Araz and Miguel are playing like mad.  Louis  back from the Mannheim Ballet is once again in the centre of Toronto dance, Takako is still being fetted after her extraordinary performance in "spoon".  Jiv premiers his Vikings play  ...much more news about many more but prefer face-to-face...want to meet for coffee?

A snap-shot of past, current and upcoming activities, our website changes regularly.