an integrated physical and vocal
technique for dancers, physical performers and all movers and
sounders. Cycles practice: emphasis on breath, impulse and energy, and the alignment
and coordination of simultaneous action. Sessions are structured
for participants to work at their maximum capacity within their area of
personal expertise, skill and age (and can be experienced as both high and low
impact depending on your interests and needs.). 2-day cycles Day 1 practices fundamentals Day 2 larger expressive movement & interaction.
Sessions can be taken separately. The whole series offers a rounded opportunity for development. all welcome • enquire at info(at)acrossoceans.org
Next Sessions Oct 24-28 Yelp studio Athens Greece : Nov 9-22 Dance Cream studio Kochi Japan
February TORONTO TIME & PLACE email for details Donation to expenses : pwyc $15/single practice - or block donation $12/class for 10
Please email back so we know to expect you.
“Maxine’s
process and understanding of movement is at a high theoretical level
that also is profoundly human. Her methods first intrigued me and now
have actually changed the way that I perform. She has managed to
develop a practice that integrates both intuition and intelligence:
Content & meaning translated into impulse, control of physical
energy, and three-dimensional space. The result is dance that is more
detailed, more grounded, more substantial, more sensual, more human.
She has led me to dance right to my nerve endings – exhilarating! “
T. Segawa, Japan
“out of our usual framework, you allowed me to
break free of pressures I had felt previously and had repressed,
pushing us to focus on creative capacities.” L.Stevens, Montreal
“challenges
movement awareness, opens possibilities and new layers to work on,
combine, construct or deconstruct. It feels like the motion is
inexhaustible in resources & possibilities.” S. Premus, Slovenia.
ABOUT PROPOSING here about the principles from "notes on choreography"here
what we did at the 2010 CM here 2010 Choreographers: Claire French, Lisa Weiler, Ida Meftahi, Tracey Norman, Janine Saarinen Interpreters:
Justine Chambers, Heather Laura Gray, Brenna McLaud, Anna Stanutz, Renee Lefort, Jesse Dell, Sky Fairchild-Waller, Sarah
McQueston, Jen Hum, Meaghan Giusti, Marlowe Porter, Meghan Smith Mentors: Maxine Heppner, Takako Segawa, Jessica Runge, Susan Lee
2008 Choreographers and interpreters: Michael Caldwell (Toronto) with Emma Kate Millar & Jessica Wilson Lynndsey Larre (Toronto) with Heather Berry & Jade Sakamoto, Andrew Tay (Montreal) with Marilyne St. Sauveur & Edward Toledo, Miriam Walther (New York City) with Kara Nolte & Lucia Daisog (Vancouver) Mentors: Maxine Heppner, Takako Segawa, Jessica Runge Also enquire about Individual Mentoring throughout the year in 2011-12 2011 mentoring: Bianca Pulungan (Essen Germany) 2009 mentoring: Lisa Weiler (Toronto Canada)
Choreographers in development
2011 MENTORSHIP • choreographer Bianca Pulungan Essen, Germany email to enquire about individual/group mentoring.
LEARNING the WAYS of the DANCER technique, processs, awareness
FOR MOVERS & SOUNDERS (pro & not) CYCLES TRAINING FOR ACTORS MOVING VOICE private and small group sessions by appointment. Springing from the Linklater technique and integrated physical practice. enquire: info(at) acrossoceans.org
FOR ALL PERFORMERS INTRO to ACTION THEATRE based on the principles of Ruth Zaporah: practice performance in the moment enquire: info(at)acrossoceans.org about Action Theatre
FOR ALL PEOPLE ALIGNMENT TRAINING by appointment
- the philosophy of weightless movement: how correct postural
alignment is effortless, prevents injury, and supports psychological
balance
- bodily relaxation exercises, involving breathing and focusing
- individual postural alignments
- movement exercises and self correction
MANY WAYS OF WATCHINGmore info soon
Like a book club but for dance and contemporary performance.
Never again say "great...but I don't Get It" ?
Group discussions and visits to shows.
Passed
Impulse, Energy and Form Integrated Movement and Voice
TORONTO CANADA
description from Jan 2010 Series 8:08 Alternative Technique series ATC Toronto
For professional dance artists, and dance students
in final two years of a professional dance training program.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: We begin with the premise that movement and voice are indivisible
and physical. We begin with impulse. Impulse sets energy in motion.
Motion takes shape, direction, space. Structures develop. From there
on, it’s a matter of paying attention with open mind and senses, and
the creation/interpretation begins. All of this happens on the inside,
the outside and between each one of us. Each of the two days is divided
into 3 sessions, with the second day continuing the practice started on
Day 1. The morning session includes a warm-up that is a series of very
simple exercises to awaken awareness, isolation of body parts,
coordination, and circulation. Then concepts of internal and external
forms of impulse, energy and articulation will be explored through
guided individual practice. The first afternoon session is an
integrated movement and vocal technique class. Concepts explored in the
morning will be applied to set exercises and combinations (with both
movement and voice) presented in dance class format. The second
afternoon session is for independent explorations of the day’s work.
Participants will practice alone, and with witnesses, to experiment and
begin to make the work personally relevant.
Maxine Heppner is a master teacher, mentor and guest artist
of contemporary dance and interdisciplinary performance in Canada and
internationally. She is known as a performer and creator of bold,
large-scale performance works (“audacious”) and intimate chamber pieces
(“reaching a new state of mind”). Her company, Across Oceans is
dedicated to approaching art as a collaborative activity whose
fundamental experience is a physical one. She teaches dance, integrated
movement-voice technique, creative process, choreography and her
“cycles series practice”. Her personal practice, evolving since the
1970’s, has developed from training in classical, modern and
contemporary dance and theatre forms, Linklater vocal technique,
contemporary and traditional arts of Southeast Asia, Action Theatre of
Ruth Zaporah, and ongoing research into neurological patternings and
modes of experience and memory with neurologist Tim Kennedy of the
Neurological Institute of Montreal. This wide range of experiences has
led her to an approach that does not presume aesthetic preferences, but
examines impulse, energy and the expressive natures of their many forms.
Energy, Flow and Focus: creating dance with the strength of contradictions
This weekend workshop examines and experiments with how you as the dancer or choreography can simultaneously use constant energetic Flow and Single thematic Focus to develop choreography. During the first day we will strengthen our awareness and use of personal and group flow, and then working with this, identify flash points of interest within a constantly evolving physical exploration. We will work in group, duet and solo forms. Practice will be as mover and observer. During the second day we apply the first days' work to an inverted approach. The flash points will become dominant themes inside which we will explore ways to deepen and expand the expression of a single theme...using energetic flow as a source of creative intelligence. Practice will be as interpreter and choreographer (depending on participant's stated interests. Day 3 and Day 4 will be for choreographic development exploring how to use these concepts and experiences to create dances.
Maxine Heppner returns to Athens to once more challenge the advanced dancer/choreographer with her interest in energy as a primary source for dance. Choreographer, director, performer and teacher of contemporary dance and interdisciplinary performance, Maxine is guest artist for festivals, companies, and academies in North America, Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe. She has been honoured by many awards and commissions in her 30-year career. She is invited worldwide as mentor and guest artist to teach contemporary dance, her integrated movement-voice technique, and her creation practice "cycles", based on neurological patterning and energy impulse. Her writings about creation, artistic process and collaboration have been published in journals and many international conferences. In Canada she founded the dance department of the first high school for performing arts and has been faculty and is ongoing guest at Universities of Toronto, York and Concordia. In Athens she has taught and coached for Eniamorpho, Yelp!, Studio Metzis, Chorochoros, The Duncan Centre for Dance Research, Quasitellar, Rallou Manou and the Atheneum music conservatory.
Soft Parkours Dialogues FOR THE ADVENTUROUS & ENERGETIC a practice, a group, an event what a way to end a day, all
welcome all weather
Imagine being part of a small pack of prowlers quietly sharing stories while smoothly traversing whatever is in the path.
Imagine seeing a group of prowling storytellers in the early evening glow....
"Soft" prowls the UofT campus, parkours style,
sharing improvised monologues inspired by the "prowl".
Marrying physical Parkours Attitude
with Action Theatre Spontaneity
and Across Oceans Cooperation,
Hard to explain, big fun to do.
A challenge for body/mind/interaction.
An event in itself and a playground to discover fresh ideas and new ways of interacting.
Practicing
an embodiment of movement, story and environment. Open to All. Email for details. Meet at lobby of
UC Playhouse 79A St.George St. Wear sturdy clothing. call 647 892 8557 if needs be.
Parkour (sometimes also
abbreviated to PK) or l'art du déplacement [1] (English: the art of
moving) is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle
within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment.[2] It
is a non-competitive, physical discipline of French origin in which
participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in
the most efficient way possible, as if moving in an emergency
situation. Skills such as jumping and climbing, or the more specific
parkour moves are employed. The object of parkour is to get from one
place to another using only the human body and the objects in the
environment. The obstacles can be anything in one's environment, but
parkour is often seen practiced in urban areas because of the many
suitable public structures available such as buildings and rails. More
on this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour
email for more information > info(at)acrossoceans.org
