CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

Opening & Connecting | Kate Holden |
This exploratory work led by Kate Holden focuses on activating the senses, enlivening awareness, awaking the imagination, and attending to one’s relationship with space, as a means to prepare for and enrich one’s engagement in class, rehearsal and creation.

Action Lab | Peggy Baker |
Peggy Baker offers powerful entry points for developing choreographic language by accessing the movement potential inherent in a list of processes and properties compiled by sculptor Richard Serra. Participants will be introduced to an expansive series of open-ended lesson plans that may accessed to guide their students in movement invention.  These lesson plans include rigorous foundational directives followed by a further set of processes for manipulating elements such as tempo, spatial orientation, scale, sequencing, quality, and intention; as well as processes to consider, articulate, and discuss the aspirational objectives that arise.

Fundamentals | Christine Wright |
Christine Wright has developed a wide range of refined exercises, each geared toward specific anatomical goals. This class delves into foundational elements of dance technique: articulation, strength, and integration.

Equipment:
- Yoga mat
- a 7’ blue theraband
- a long foam roller (3’ long with a 6” diameter)
- a small, hard ball (such as a racket ball)

Ballet | Christine Wright |
Christine Wright’s Ballet classes are focused on sound principles of anatomy. The focus of this class is movement, flow and musicality. Ms. Wright’s emphasis is on teaching dancers skills that enable them to bring out their own innate abilities, resulting in freedom of movement built on a firm foundation.

Inspire by FM with Elke: Dance as a Practice | Elke Schroeder |
Inspired by the *Fighting Monkey Practice, we explore task-based movement and discover how its application in personal practice is vital for longevity. It’s not a Fight practice, rather we “fight our monkey minds”. Exploring at dance as a basic form of communication, as a rhythmical unifier and as a task-based movement practice, we can gain insight into ourselves as human animals. In this class we will work with solo improvisation/dance “tasks” that will ask us to train with a One Animal (full integration) approach to awareness, working with instinctual/reactive movement, dynamic range and elastic capacity for power and mobility, and the use of sensation and imagination.

Images from 2017 August Intensive, by Jeremy Mimnagh

CADA members may be eligible for reimbursement through the CADA Training Subsidy Program.

For questions or more information, contact Steven Smits at steven@peggybakerdance.com or 416-538-4436.

August Intensive
August 19 - 23, 2019
Canada’s National Ballet School
400 Jarvis Street, Toronto