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photo credits: Marie-Ève Dion, 2025. 

Movement Educators Forum : Safety and Risk in Practice

Corinne Skaff, Kelly Keenan & Guests

May 12 - 16 2025

9h30 - 13h00

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https://www.studio303.ca/en/mathi-lp-kelly-keenan-guests-movement-educator-forum-24-25/

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This year’s Movement Educator Forum (MEF), Safety and Risk in Practice, proposes a space for inquiry into the different ways practitioners cultivate and harness experiences of safety and risk in dance and movement education contexts.

 

Facilitated by Corinne Skaff and Kelly Keenan, over the course of a week, 5 teachers across fields of practice are invited to lead a movement class followed by a facilitator and peer lead discussion. We begin knowing that degrees of safety and risk are present in all sensing and movement invitations:

  • What kinds of safety and risks is each invitee attending to?

  • What kinds of safety/risks are backgrounded? 

  • What are your bodily ways of sensing safety and or risk?

  • What strategies do you summon in response to risk?

  • How may these senses of safety/risk be at the service or disservice of movement education?

 

By the end of the week, the hope is to render more explicit and expanded the ways in which safety and risk are mobilised in practice. How can we use them intentionally in fostering evermore positive and empowering spaces for training?

MOVEMENT EDUCATOR’S FORUM ARCHIVE​

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2024 Confluence(s) Fluide

Charles Brecard, Fluidify

Shérane Figaru, Haitian traditional dance and ESANS

Lauren Semeschuk and Scott McCabe, Ilon Lev Quickie Session

Eroca Nicols, Consent in Fighting and Dancing

Mukoma (J-Style) Nshinga, Gliding

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2023 Readiness

Alida Esmail et Trevor Copp, Liquid Lead Dancing 
Hanna Sybille Müller, Contemporary Dance
Maryse Damecour, Preparing the autonomic nervous system
Aurélie Brunelle,The Flamenco body
Peter Jasko, Flying Low

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2021 Head-Tail Relations

Karen Fennell, Gyrokinesis

Susanna Hood, Open Source Forms

Lauren Semeschuk, Ilan Lev & Contemporary dance

Andrew Harwood, Contact improvisation

Kevin O'Connor, fascia research & biodynamic craniosacral practice

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2019 Touch & Training

Nita Little, Tactility of Attention

Ivanie Malo Aubin, Fancy Shawl Dancing

Eroca Nicols, Nature Drag and/or Rocks don’t Apologize

Kelly Keenan, Feeling Dancing

Xavier Therrien, Yoga

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2018  Metaphor & Movement

Katie Ward, The Franklin Method

Eryn Dace Trudell, Skinner Releasing Technique

Marc Boivin, Contemporary Dance

Sylvie Fortin, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement

Charles Koroneho, Body Weather (Min Tanaka) & Movement Culture

 

2017 Dancing Together

Alanna Kraaijeveld, Mobility & Co-ordination

Eroca Nicols, Contact Improvisation and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Kira Kirsch, Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation

Nancy Lavoie, Tango Argentin and Massage Therapy

Lucy M. May, Independent Dance Artist

 

2016 Fascia: Concepts to be Moved by

Dr. Gracovetsky, The Spinal Engine

Amanda Acorn, Contemporary Dance

Lauree Wise, Body Mind Centering

Kevin O’Connor, Fascia Modeling and Dance Scores

Linda Rabin, Continuum Movement

Madelaine Shen, Chiropractics

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2015 In Honour of the Foot

Angelique Wilkie, Contemporary Dance

Ashlea Watkin, Occupational Therapy

Jean-Francois Harvey, Osteopath

Dana Gingras, Gyrokinesis

Joanna Abbott, kinesiology

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2014 Core

Sara Hanley, Contemporary Dance

Mariko Tanabe, Body Mind Centering

Katie Ward, Franklin Method

Kelly Keenan, Axis Syllabus

Lin Snelling, Voice and Movement

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2013 Breath

Warwick Long, Feldenkrais

Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, Contemporary Dance

Kira Kirsch, Axis Syllabus

Linda Rabin, Continuum Movement

Jéremie Fiset, Aekkus

 

THANK-YOU’S to Studio 303 & Peer Organizational Team

Laurel Koop, Ashlea Watkin, Kira Kirsch, Eroca Nicols, Ruth Douthwright, Kerwin Barrington,

Kevin O’Connor, Rebecca Rehder, Mathilde Loslier-Pellerin & Linda Rabin

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