“I’m starting to see art practice and working to support artists as one and the same. Working this way - both artistically, with materials and collaborators, and producing or administration - supports my practice and my capacity to help artists, to be on the inside of it and understand what people need and how we can make it a more useful space. Just what it means to bring things into the world - because it's just challenging no matter what.”
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Photo: Richie Lubaton
Read More“The class I want to move toward is an environment that can feel like a place where we're searching for mistakes, and looking to failures in class, so that we walk away with a broader map of our body moving, instead of hyper-focusing on that perfection body.
How can we keep researching dance as a failing, an ephemeral and beautiful human art form - so that when we're on stage and mistakes are being made that we're still activated and excited and extraordinary?
Isak Enquist
“How do I be this human in this body, in relation to this other human in that body who may be very different than me, but we are still humans needing to cohabitate in this world?” I feel that our nervous systems, especially now, have strong need to connect with what is homeostasis, in one way or another - just for sanity in ourselves, in our relations with each other. I think there's a lot in the somatic practices that bring us in touch.”
Sarah Bild
“And a need for somatic practices to be responding contemporarily. What do people need now? What is contemporary art now, and what does it need from somatic work? What training does it need? How do we readapt that? Are there things that are universal? I don't know. It’s a very interesting question.”
Susanna Hood
Read More“Shooting during the recent performance…was so primal. You could see their connection with their own bodies and with the space around them. You feel like you are part of the performance. You're trying to capture it. Documenting this amazing art that is so ephemeral in nature.”
Tara Osan on videoing Frying Pan
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An event for all ages: Painting, singing, dancing and stories for water.
Read More“…you have to develop inner stamina. Hard work is love. Whatever you do, keep working, not years, decades. Then something magical begins. It is a privilege to love something that much.”
Olivia Olsen on artistic resilience.
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And join us for Frying Pan for an improv performance by Bild and Hood with Ben Brown and Carol Sawyer
8PM Saturday September 17th 2022 at Left of Main
$10 at the door Limited seating!
Read More“The nature of the working process is web-like and cumulative. Each session is unique and draws on modalities of touch, deep-state imagery, alignment-focused exercises, and scores for improvisation. The sessions promote experiential learning, allowing for the timing of each individual’s process of discovery and integration, working both together and alone but in community. In this way, people of all levels of experience can explore alongside each other, tailoring the work to their individual capacities and needs.”
Susanna Hood on Open Source Forms.
Read More“…Montreal choreographer/performer Sarah Bild follows an intuitive stream of physical imagery to create deeply textured and organic works of dance. Her visually impressive solo and group works, presented for the last 25 years in venues and festivals across Canada, raise questions about the human presence on this planet.”
@lapoele307
Read More“when there are dangling, low hanging trees or branches, I often will try to either position myself near it or not deny that it's there. And I’ve been finding that I love grass.”
Read MoreI love the idea of a traveling piano. So often, where I perform is limited by where you can have a piano. To put it on the back of a pickup truck and just take it along and play it wherever it can be parked is unbelievably liberating. It feels like the privilege is all mine!
Read MoreJennifer Mascall is like hot sauce!
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Read MoreWelcoming frequent MascallDance collaborator, playwright, actor and comic, Jenn Griffin,
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