Choreographic Workshops 2020
December 14 to 18 | 17th édition
© Montréal Danse
Choreographic Research Workshops
Despite the context, we continue to operate within a framework adapted to the reality of the pandemic.
An intensive week of creation, experimentation and exploration. Four choreographers share their ideas and visions with experienced performers, supported by facilitators Kathy Casey and Hilary Bergen.
The workshop will take place from December 14 to 18, 2020 in the Belgo and Wilder – Espace Danse buildings. As in previous years, there will be 4 morning lectures*.
* Reserved for workshop participants in accordance with government regulations.
Discover the selected creators and their pairings with performers:
- Emmalie Ruest, with Jessica Serli and Sonya Stefan
- Sébastien Provencher, with Karla Étienne and Rachel Harris
- Caroline Gravel, with Elinor Fueter and Erin Hill
- Susanna Hood, with Bernard Martin and Nate Yaffe
Conferences
December 14 to 17, Ashtanga Yoga Studio, Montreal
December 14
Translating the Kinetic Trace From Kate Bush to Hatsune Miku
This presentation will think about how and where the organic human body exists (or persists) in digital dance translations. Hilary Bergen will share a recent “translation” project where she used a PC, a Microsoft Kinect, the dance for Kate Bush’s cult classic, “Wuthering Heights” and a digital choreographic program called Miku Miku Dance.
December 15
Black Box, White Box, Screen Box, No Box – Dance and COVID
Kathy Casey will look at the various contexts for creating and presenting dance, from black box theatres to the live streamings and outdoor dances of the past months. What is similar and what changes from one performance box to the other?
December 16
Potential Dances : Undancing
What is at stake with unlearning dances’ categories and disciplines, norms, possibilities and exclusions? Thinking with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, this discussion and gathering considers “undancing” as an approach to dismantling power-knowledge.
December 17
Micro-Politics of Feminist Dramaturgical Thinking
Based on practices of care, pleasure and need, Feminist Dramaturgical Thinking puts work ethics on equal footing with work development. In this frame, work is not driven by efficiency but by curiosity and comradeship.