kelly keenan
dance artist
Image credit: fjord gagnebin
Fluid Confluence(s)
Studio 303
May 6th - 10th 2024
9h30-13h00
https://www.studio303.ca/en/kelly-keenan-invite-es-forum-des-educateurs-trices-du-mouvement-en/
This year’s Movement Educator’s Forum, Fluid Confluence(s), marks the 10th anniversary of a community event that invites local folks that lead movement practice to come together to exchange, reflect and re-inspire their teaching. Acknowledging that many of us address common themes, such as our relation to gravity or spirals, the MEF celebrates the unique ways that each of us engages with any given theme. This year, co-facilitators Kelly Keenan and Mathi LP foreground fluids as objects of embodied inquiry in diverse movement practices.
Fluid confluence(s) explores how different teachers envisage and mobilize what it is to be, and to become, fluid. With “fluid” we propose a broad term that could be used to describe a quality of movement, an embodied inquiry into the material bodily fluids, or fluid identities and social mediations, but ultimately leave space for a multifold of enactments.
Over the course of the week, we are delighted to see what emerges and submerges from the confluence of fluid engagements through practices lead by our 5 invitees. We invite curiosity into :
What is meant by fluidity?
How does each invitee summon, or cultivate sensitivity to, the fluid body?
How does the fluid body listen?
What does each fluid body surface? What does each fluid body submerge?
Perhaps, by the end of the week our normalized ways of understanding what it is to be fluid will be blasted open by the practices of others.
MOVEMENT EDUCATOR’S FORUM ARCHIVE
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
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
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
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
Angelique Wilkie, Contemporary Dance
Ashlea Watkin, Occupational Therapy
Jean-Francois Harvey, Osteopath
Dana Gingras, Gyrokinesis
Joanna Abbott, kinesiology
Sara Hanley, Contemporary Dance
Mariko Tanabe, Body Mind Centering
Katie Ward, Franklin Method
Kelly Keenan, Axis Syllabus
Lin Snelling, Voice and Movement
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