AIM Alexander Technique Informed Movement

Saturday May 2, 2015

Sinclair Studio, 151 Markham Street, Toronto

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

Begin to free patterns of tension to access your underlying support and awaken intimacy and surprise in yourself to uncover varied and unexpected material in your dance practices and/or in performance. Kinesthetic information is received through “hands-on work” and can then be integrated into your dancing. During guided improvisations you will have opportunities to witness each other to access more presence and aliveness in your dancing.

AIM Part 2: Contact Improv, 2-5pm

Learn to listen and respond in the moment to yourself, others, and the space around you to access more effortless and efficient partnering. Receiving “hands-on” work promotes whole-body integration and helps you free and expand as you come into contact with another. You will witness each other dancing in duets and trios to awaken your spatial perception and deepen your connection with yourself in relation to others.

$60/workshop cada/act/students before Apr 24
$70/workshop before Apr 24
$90/workshop regular
$110 both before Apr 24

SUSAN SINCLAIR is Director of Sinclair Studio teaching Alexander Technique and the Pilates Method for over 20 years, and has directed her Alexander Technique Teacher Training Program since 2003. Susan has taught in Alexander teacher trainings in the USA, Germany and Japan since 2000. Susan is on faculty at The Houston School and the Alexander Alliance, Tokyo.

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:  Suzanne Liska, 416 704-8096, suzliska@yahoo.com; www.sinclairstudio.com