kelly keenan
dance artist
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:
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What kinds of safety and risks is each invitee attending to?
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What kinds of safety/risks are backgrounded?
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What are your bodily ways of sensing safety and or risk?
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What strategies do you summon in response to risk?
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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Angelique Wilkie, Contemporary Dance
Ashlea Watkin, Occupational Therapy
Jean-Francois Harvey, Osteopath
Dana Gingras, Gyrokinesis
Joanna Abbott, kinesiology
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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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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