Alternative Technique Class (ATC) Programs for 2012/2013 Series 8:08 is an artist-initiated, artist-run organisation that was founded in 1993 in Toronto, Canada. Series 8:08 is a unique organisation that supports the professional development of dance and dance artists, in various disciplines and of diverse aesthetics, through our two programmes: the Choreographic Performance Workshop (CPW) and Alternative Technique Class (ATC). The Alternative Technique Class Program offers innovative professional development workshops to professional dance artists, taught by established dance professionals. These are opportunities to explore alternative techniques and practices, as well as the creative visions and processes of diverse dance artists.
grupo corpo
Master Class with Grupo Corpo February 18, 2013 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. class (with an artist talk to follow) Location: Toronto Dance Theatre’s Studio Theatre Fee: $20 ($10 if you register with $10 non-refundable deposit by January 22, 2013) With registration to this ATC, your show ticket is only $15 (regular show ticket price is $50). Call Harbourfront Centre’s box office at 416.973.4000 and quote the promo code we give you to take advantage of this exclusive offer, just for you.
This class is suitable for professional dancers and pre-professional dancers. Dancers from Brazilian company Grupo Corpo have designed a master class to introduce repertoire from their show, Sem Mim & Ímã to audiences and dancers. Following a warm up where participants learn traditional movements of Rodrigo Pederneiras’ choreographic style and aesthetic. Sequences from Sem Mim & Ímã will be taught where rhythms of the sea merge with music of medieval Portuguese - Galician chants.
The workshop will also include repertoire from their show PARABELO with fast footwork and dynamic Brazilian beats which examines the attraction and repulsion of opposites. Join Albert, Edson and Janaina in an artist talk after the workshop.
Edson Hayzer before joining Grupo Corpo in 2001 worked with Ballet do Teatro Guaira and began his dance studies in 1997. Janaina Castro began her dance studies in 1981 and danced with Companhia de Dança de Minas Gerais before joining Grupo Corpo in 2000.
Albert Venceslau began his dance studies in September 2001. Before joining Grupo Corpo in January 2004, he danced with Companhia dos Homens, Cisne Negro, Companhia de Dança and DeAnima Ballet Company.
As one of the largest multidisciplinary art centres in Canada, Harbourfront Centre is dedicated to the development of contemporary performance in Toronto, in Canada and around the world. Devoted to professional artists, and all who participate in the current performance ecology, Harbourfront Centre's World Stage is committed to maintaining and developing the exceptional calibre of talent creating work in the city. Through this partnership with Series 8:08's ATC program, Harbourfront Centre's World Stage is proud to offer this series of labworks to the professional dance community, as well as a subsidized ticket to the performance.
grupo corpo Grupo Corpo was created in Belo Horizonte, in 1975, by Paulo Pederneiras, who brought along with him his brothers, sisters and some friends. It is a contemporary dance company, which is typically Brazilian in its creations. During Corpo’s history, it went through several metamorphosis but it has been guided by three main concerns: the definition of an identity linked to the idea of a national culture (with all the
photo: JosĂŠ Luiz Pederneiras
subtlety it implies); the continuity of the work, thinking in terms of future; the integrity in maintaining the self-imposed elaboration standards.
Paulo Pederneiras is the artistic director, and later he became responsible for the scenography and lighting of the pieces, as well.
As of 1992, composers were invited to write sound tracks especially for each ballet. So, music, stage setting, costumes and choreography are created simultaneously. Each ballet is the result of this interaction.
Rodrigo Pederneiras started as a dancer and, as of 1981, he became the choreographer of practically all of Grupo Corpo’s work.
Performance dates: Feb 19 - 23, 2013 For full season lineup, visit www.harboufrontcentre.ca/worldstage
TAO DANCE THEATER
New Body Techniques: Intensive Master Class March 18 2013 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. class (with an artist talk to follow) Location: TBA Fee: $20 ($10 if you register with $10 non-refundable deposit by February 25, 2013) With registration to this ATC, your show ticket is only $15 (regular show ticket price is $40). Call Harbourfront Centre’s box office at 416.973.4000 and quote the promo code we give you to take advantage of this exclusive offer, just for you.
This workshop is open to all advanced professional and pre-professional dance artists.
Artistic Director Tao Ye has been developing his own way of training so that dancers are able to execute his unique physical vocabulary and reach greater potential in their own movement styles. Join Tao Ye and his company TAO Dance Theater will teach an intensive two hours of physical exploration and discovery. Through games to relax the body as well as exercises to open the mind, participants will experience firsthand Tao Ye’s new movement techniques that he has been invited to teach in Singapore, Sweden and Holland. TAO will
also demonstrate and teach excerpts of the company’s physically demanding repertory. Tao Ye states that, “in this class, we will challenge the ability of our own body and sharpen the clarity of our responsiveness so that the mind becomes more conscious of the body’s every detailed nuance. This extends our awareness beyond the limits of our body out into the space around us.” Join Tao Ye in an artist talk after the workshop.
As one of the largest multidisciplinary art centres in Canada, Harbourfront Centre is dedicated to the development of contemporary performance in Toronto, in Canada and around the world. Devoted to professional artists, and all who participate in the current performance ecology, Harbourfront Centre's World Stage is committed to maintaining and developing the exceptional calibre of talent creating work in the city. Through this partnership with Series 8:08's ATC program, Harbourfront Centre's World Stage is proud to offer this series of labworks to the professional dance community, as well as a subsidized ticket to the performance.
JO STRØMGREN KOMPANI
A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football: Inside the show April 9, 2013 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. (with artist talk to follow) Location: Dovercourt House, First Floor Fee: $20 ($10 if you register with $10 non-refundable deposit by March 12, 2013) With registration to this ATC, your show ticket is only $15 (regular show ticket price is $35). Call Harbourfront Centre’s box office at 416.973.4000 and quote the promo code we give you to take advantage of this exclusive offer, just for you.
Workshop is open to all professional and pre-professional dance artists.
Learn and rehearse repertoire from the performance, A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football and experience a new logic. A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football delves into the physical routine of the greatest game on earth and elevates the aesthetic aspects of its insanity. It comments on the artificial conflict between the “common sport” and the “eloquent arts” as well as the
pride and prejudice surrounding the concept of working-class football and upper-class ballet. This workshop offers a unique introduction to the work and artistic world of Jo Strømgren Kompani (JSK). The workshop will be given by two of JSK’s experienced dancers, Mikkel Are Olsenlund and Jan Nicolai Wesnes. Join Mikkel and Jan in an artist talk after the workshop.
As one of the largest multidisciplinary art centres in Canada, Harbourfront Centre is dedicated to the development of contemporary performance in Toronto, in Canada and around the world. Devoted to professional artists, and all who participate in the current performance ecology, Harbourfront Centre's World Stage is committed to maintaining and developing the exceptional calibre of talent creating work in the city. Through this partnership with Series 8:08's ATC program, Harbourfront Centre's World Stage is proud to offer this series of labworks to the professional dance community, as well as a subsidized ticket to the performance.
JO STRØMGREN KOMPANI Mikkel Are Olsenlund was educated at the Faculty for Performing Arts at the Oslo National Academy of Art from 20012004. Since 2009, Mikkel has worked with Jo Strømgren Kompani. In addition, Mikkel was also in productions like Singin in the rain (Oslo Nye Teater), Lille Eyolf and Hunting for Nora (Teater Ibsen) and Unge Hamsun, Baller and The Fairyqueen.
photo: Knut Bry
Jan Nicolai Wesnes was educated at the Faculty of Performing Arts at the Oslo National Acadamy of the Arts from 2001-2004. Jan Nicolai has worked with Jo Strømgren Kompani since 2009. He is also a freelance dancer and choreographer for dance companies and musical productions, as well as for TV and film. He has also been assistant director and choreographer for Katrine Bølstad Kompani.
Jo Strømgren Kompani was founded in 1998 and is based in Norway. It has grown to become one of the most successful independent groups in Scandinavia. To date, the company has toured almost 50 countries, and has annually had more than 150 performances presented both in large national theatres and small alternative venues all over the world.
Performance dates: April 10 - 13, 2013 For full season lineup, visit www.harboufrontcentre.ca/worldstage
Campo
Collective effervescence April 24, 2013 1:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. (with artist talk to follow) Location: Dovercourt House, 1st Floor Studio Fee: $52 ($25 if you register with $25 non-refundable deposit by March 27, 2013) With registration to this ATC, your show ticket is only $15 (regular show ticket price is $35). Call Harbourfront Centre’s box office at 416.973.4000 and quote the promo code we give you to take advantage of this exclusive offer, just for you. This workshop is open to all dancers and participants across other artistic disciplines. In this workshop we aim to find the meaning of “togetherness”. How does a group come together and why? When are we really a group? We aim to find and feel “collective effervescence”. This energy can cause people to act differently in their everyday lives. Through this we are able to achieve the state of being close to each other so that we can portray heroic deeds and adventures. For this to happen, we have to organize ourselves and become a group or a
structure. We will use, reuse and subvert the terms and meaning found in architecture to create and recreate an action. This will construct a choreography and develop a body language and a movement vocabulary through the various relations among us.
We aim to find the arrangement of and relations between the elements present to create something more complex.
We aim to shift between these roles, so that we may use the notion of group and group effort to construct scenes.
We will work as an ensemble, where equal amount of importance is assigned in order to create the dramaturgy of the scene. We want to portray the epic nature in us and be reminded that we are able to be the ones that accomplished great things together, “One for all and all for one”.
In these scenes, we will take advantage of being in a “group action” that will take place when individuals realize that they are more likely able to achieve a common goal when acting together, rather than individually.
We propose to become storytellers of our own conquests, of our dreams, hopes and desires.
Join Guilherme in an artist talk after the workshop.
As one of the largest multidisciplinary art centres in Canada, Harbourfront Centre is dedicated to the development of contemporary performance in Toronto, in Canada and around the world. Devoted to professional artists, and all who participate in the current performance ecology, Harbourfront Centre's World Stage is committed to maintaining and developing the exceptional calibre of talent creating work in the city. Through this partnership with Series 8:08's ATC program, Harbourfront Centre's World Stage is proud to offer this series of labworks to the professional dance community, as well as a subsidized ticket to the performance.
campo Guilherme Garrido was born in 1983, Portugal. His artistic work and education are connected to dance, choreography and fine arts. Gui is interested in performance as a way of story telling by becoming a showman disguised in contemporary dance. His artistic work always contains warm and subversive humour and is occupied with how the body and movement can also give associations to films, hero figures, shows or rock concerts. At the same time, he is interested in interweaving the fragility and intimacy of relationships on stage.
photo: Phile Deprez
CAMPO, which brought That Night Follows Day to World Stage audiences in 2009, is a Ghent-based art centre that creates and presents work at all stages of development on a national and international scale.
Performance dates: April 23 - 24, 26 - 27, 2013 For full season lineup, visit www.harboufrontcentre.ca/worldstage
Series 8:08 is offering Scholarships to selected participants. For more information and to apply, please go to our website: www.series808.ca
Stay in touch with us ‌ Throughout the season, we will continue to bring in guest teachers. Please visit us at our website, sign up for our e-news or find us on Facebook for updates. Contact Information: Series 8:08 ATC Program Manager, Cara Spooner T: 416.504.6429 Ext. 40 or E: atc@series808.ca Series 8:08 team: Artistic & Managing Director: Yvonne Ng Administrator: Yves Candau CPW Manager: Tanya Crowder CPW Technical Director: Stuart Baulch Program Assistant: Jennifer Lee ATC Manager & Outreach Coordinator: Cara Spooner Blog Manager: Brittany Duggan Photographer: Omer Yukseker Mailing Address: c/o Dance Umbrella of Ontario 476 Parliament Street, Second Floor Toronto, Ontario M4X 1P2 www.series808.ca The ATC Program was founded in 1998 by past Co-AD, Jessica Runge.
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