AIM Alexander Technique Informed Movement

Saturday June 21, 2014

Sinclair Studio, 151 Markham Street, Toronto

AIM Part 1: Embodied Dancing, 10am-1pm

Heighten your kinaesthetic awareness, coordination and desire, to guide you in your own ongoing movement explorations. We will work with the principles of the Alexander Technique to direct your attention to allow for more ongoing awareness of yourselves, and begin to free patterns of tension to access your underlying support. There will be opportunities to receive “hands-on work” from an Alexander Technique teacher and then integrate this new information into your dancing. Guided improvisations will allow for a range of movement possibilities for you to dance within a range that is satisfying and supportive for yourself. Experience embodied dancing and ignite your desire to move.

AIM Part 2: Contact Improv, 2-5pm

Meeting the point of contact with another dancer or the floor with ease, developing continuity in your kinesthetic awareness to allow for ongoing and fluid support. While dancing in contact with others, free and expand as you meet with new stimulus, by exploring underlying themes from the Alexander Technique. Enable whole body integration in movement and stillness and allow for greater flexibility in the choices you make while dancing with others.  There will also be opportunities to receive “hands-on work” from an Alexander Technique teacher individually and while dancing in contact with others.

AIM Part 3: Facilitated Improv Jam 6:30-8pm

Join us as we integrate the material from the workshops in an improv jam. We will begin with a brief warm-up and there will be options to dance by yourself, with others and/or witness each other dancing.

$50 per workshop cada/act/students before May 24
$60 per workshop before May 24
$80 per workshop regular
$90 both workshops before May 24

SUSAN SINCLAIR is Director of Sinclair Studio where she has maintained a private practice teaching Alexander Technique and the Pilates Method for over 20 years, and has directed her Alexander Technique Teacher Training Program since 2003. After injury in dance training Susan was able to retrain herself using Alexander and Pilates and went on to explore contact inprovisation, aerial dance, Tai Chi Aikido, Feldenkrais and Developmental Movement. Susan has taught numerous classes and workshops in Toronto, and taught in Alexander teacher trainings in the USA, Germany and Japan since 2000. She has presented her work at the last two International Congress of the Alexander Technique in Lugano, Switzerland, as well as to her colleagues at Alexander Technique International, both in the US and Europe. Currently, Susan is on faculty at The Houston School of the Alexander Technique and the Alexander Alliance, Tokyo.  www.sinclairstudio.com

 SUZANNE LISKA is a dance artist, teacher, Co-Artistic Director of Flightworks, and Co-Founder of the aLOFT Project. As a company dancer for Kathleen Rea’s REAson d’etre Dance Productions, Suzanne danced in the three times Dora Award nominated “Long Live” and for “Vivid 4”. She has also danced for choreographers Karen Kaeja, Pam Johnson, and Sue Lee, and has performed at Dusk Dances, Dance Matters, Art Whispers, DARK, and Harbourfront Centre, as well as many other venues and festivals. Suzanne teaches professional dancers, actors, high school and elementary school students, and community dancers. Specializing in dance improvisation since 1998, she teaches Contact Improv Dance and Spontaneous Composition (Improv Ensemble dance). Suzanne is a faculty teacher at the Randolph Academy for Performing Arts.

Registration:  416 704-8096; suzliska@yahoo.com

*Improv Jam included in the cost of each workshop.
*Limited spots available. Pre-registration required.