Let’s Dance Ian!! Updated June 08 2021 – Mis à jour le 08 juin 2021
Let’s Dance Ian!!
The best way to read this message is using the Newsletter Web Version that is updated mid-week. Click on your favourite events in the Table of Contents. – Ian! D. Allen
Ottawa is in full lockdown into June. Stay safe; stay home. https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/public-health-topics/novel-coronavirus.aspx
The late Nancy Stark Smith, co-founder of Contact Improvisation Dance, hosted a workshop on the form. It’s all about touch (24 minutes). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Pt0OXK7es “The poetics of touch: NANCY STARK SMITH, a pathway into contact improvisation” (In English with Spanish subtitles.)
Ottawa Public Health says be W.I.S.E.:
The links to images on the facebook may be broken in this newsletter. They must have changed their policy on access, so at some point I’ll have to go through the newsletter and delete all the facebook references. Event organizers: please ensure you have a non-facebook web site with images to which I can link for your event.
Dancers who pursue graceful movement must practice being aware of their bodies and being aware of wordless communication. These skills are particularly important today, when we spend so much time sitting and in virtual realities. Our way of life has taken us further from our own physical experiences and the understanding of the wordless emotional messages of others. For example, contact improvisation makes the dancers listen attentively to the body of their partner. Touch is known to reduce pain, fear and anxiety. – Hanna Poikonen
Events in or originating from the local Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlace Region
Events that recur weekly or monthly show only the nearest upcoming event or two. Follow the link for future events.
See the Dance to Nature group on the facebook or contact Alana O’Donnell for more information.
On the Web:
On the facebook:
Events outside the local Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlace Region
“Let’s Dance Together – ONLINE!” (Everywhere!) https://www.facebook.com/groups/LetsDanceTogetherOnline/
This workshop is for dancers who didn’t know they could write, writers who didn’t know they could dance, and the generally curious who are open to unfolding.
The approach for these series is rooted in embodiment practice and select theories of language, meaning, and psychoanalysis.
Learn and Explore:
Come prepared to move, to write, and to share. Each class, we warm up physically and creatively; We share homework; We do a movement and a writing exercise; We settle the exploration.
ReMix conforms to Open Floor International’s Art in Motion stream (AIM): to build both emotional and creative intelligence through a combination of movement and writing. We engage with process as well as product in order to move with the mover, the maker, the editor, and the inner critic.
This workshop is for dancers who didn’t know they could write, writers who didn’t know they could dance, and the generally curious who are open to unfolding.
Requirements:
If you require reduced cost, please contact me for a discount code.
Contact Majero Bouman
This is a 5Rhythms Foundational Event.
Somatomy is made up of five two-hour sessions starting Tuesday, May 4th at 12:00-14:00 EST and continuing every Tuesday at the same time, until the last session on Tuesday, June 12th, 2021.
This Somatomy workshop connects you to your full body intelligence. Learn and practice how to create a bridge from your mind to your body. Somatomy is an invitation to free yourself of patterns that distract you from being present.
Each session is 2 hours centered around PLAY: Including Shaping and Sensing, Dance, 5Rhythms, Touch, Self Awareness.
Register here: http://www.erik.iversen.ca/events/somatomy-mod1-mayjune
The Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fluidfeet/posts/5286177018122740
See you there!
This is the 5th season of the Contact Dance International Film Festival [CDIFF], celebrating films featuring momentum-based dance created by some of the top creators and dancers in the field of Contact Improvisation. It provides a unique opportunity for both film and dance lovers to experience through film the joy, chaos, and intimacy of human connection through physical movement and touch. Due to COVID, this year’s festival is presented online. Follow the links above or below.
The Global Underscore long-form Contact Improv Dance Jam takes place for four hours simultaneously, world-wide, Saturday, June 19 in 2021. (Contact the organizers for the start time.) Follow the link for a location near you. We have no Underscore practice in Ottawa, alas, but we might have a regular dance jam on Saturday and you can find events in other communities on the facebook Global Underscore page.
The Underscore is a long-form dance improvisation structure developed by Nancy Stark Smith. It has been evolving since 1990 and is practiced all over the globe.
The Underscore is a vehicle for incorporating Contact Improvisation into a broader arena of improvisational dance practice; for developing greater ease dancing in spherical space, alone and with others; and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising. It allows for a full spectrum of energetic and physical expressions, embodying a range of forms and changing states. Its practice is familiar yet unpredictable.
The practice – usually 3 to 4 hours in length – progresses through a broad range of dynamic states, including long periods of very small, private, and quiet internal activity and other times of higher energy and interactive dancing.
Dear Dance Community,
Over the last several months, several committees and workgroups have been working to determine whether we can safely, practically, and logistically hold a true Dance Camp this summer. This process has included consulting with healthcare professionals to aid us in how to think about this.
In the interest of wanting us all to be safe and healthy, we have made the difficult decision that we cannot hold a traditional Dance Camp event as we know it.
However, we are exploring opportunities to hold different kinds of event/s for the community, hopefully this summer and/or fall, that will allow the option to gather at our beloved homeplace, Camp Timber Trails, and come together as a community while taking precautions to ensure individual and collective safety. To this end, we want your input on how to hold possible events in safe and enjoyable ways! We know what we can’t do; now it’s time to be creative about what might be possible, and we want your thoughts and desires to make it happen!
Your first opportunity to share your ideas on what type of in-person event we could create is coming up at the March Virtual Event weekend! On Saturday Night March 20th, we will host a community conversation about alternatives to camp from 5:45-7:00pm! It will be a community brainstorming session. We will break into small groups to get creative about envisioning safe ways to connect in person.
You can register and see info for the March Virtual Event here. If you just want to attend the discussion and not the weekend event, you can sign up here.
We know many of you will be incredibly disappointed that we aren’t having Dance Camp; we are as well and did not make this decision lightly. However, we are excited about the possibilities that are open to us and look forward to exploring our options together as a community.
In Community, Myla Green, Managing Coordinator, on behalf of DNE leadership.
Recurring Events outside the local Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlace Region
I don’t know if these events are now happening online. Contact the organizers.
Groove Tonic PEC hosts a weekly barefoot, free-form movement and dance event in Picton.
We meet every Wednesday evening from 7–9:00 pm for barefoot, free-form movement and and dance. All are welcome! Wear comfortable clothing, bring water to keep hydrated and a $5 donation to cover the cost of the space. Groove Tonic happens at the Picton Town Hall, 2nd floor above the old firehall (2 Ross St, at King St).
Contact Arsalan Ahmad for details on what’s happening around Contact Improvisation Dance in Peterborough, Ontario. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact Arsalan.)
For other Peterborough dance events, e.g. Ecstatic Dance, see Dance Your Bones
DYB’s purpose is to offer an Ecstatic Dance movement practice in an accessible, respectful and safe environment.
Each Thursday evening, we dance together in a beautiful church hall for 90 minutes without interruption. The music varies weekly depending on the dj. We try to use an interesting blend of world music, pop, blues and even classical.
Dance and celebrate – Danser, se rassembler, célébrer, s’émerveiller …
Classes in Biodanza and Authentic Movement in and near Montréal with Catherine Fabiola Lessard
Dance and celebrate – Danser, se rassembler, célébrer, s’émerveiller …
Classes in Biodanza and Authentic Movement in and near Montréal with Catherine Fabiola Lessard
Freeing the Creative Spirit Teaching people to experience the pulsating sensual energy inside them and awakening their connection to flowing breath, rooted feet and a centered alive pelvis – reach up, root down, live in the heart center. Visit http://www.erik.iversen.ca/ or http://www.5rhythms.com/teachers/Erik+Iversen or contact Erik Iversen for more
information. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact Erik.)
Dance a weekly Thursday night 5Rhythms class with Lynne Adams in Montréal. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact Lynne.)
Contact Improvisation de la ville de Québec
Bienvenue à tous. Les jams de Contact improvisation seront annoncés dans le groupe par le biais d’évènements. Consultez la publication épinglée pour plus d’information.
Classes are facilitated in French (with possible English translation on request): Biodanza Sherbrooke: français and Sherbrook Biodanza: English
Ian! D. Allen via idallen@idallen.ca
If your vote didn’t elect anyone to represent you, look into Proportional Representation at Fair Vote Canada:
Prepared by:
| Ian! D. Allen, BA, MMath - idallen@idallen.ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| Home: www.idallen.com Contact Improvisation Dance: www.contactimprov.ca
| Former college professor (Free/Libre GNU+Linux) at: teaching.idallen.com
| Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/
