Feb
24
Monday, February 24 at 6:00 p.m.
to Friday, February 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Scotiabank Dance Centre
677 Davie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2G6, Canada
Class Description:
Starting soft and low, we’ll begin by warming our bodies and attentions through improvisational tasks. Offering tools to move with efficiency, ease, and speed, we will then move through a series of set movement exercises. We will play with folding our joints and practice functional ways of moving in and out of the floor. Staying close to the floor, we will experiment with ways we can organize our bones to generate momentum and power. As we work with isolating movements, I will encourage us to lean into sensation and listen to our body’s individual sequencing and rhythms. Exploring the tactility of our hands and feet, we’ll wield our bodies through space and experiment with warping our sense of gravity. We will end class by connecting these ideas and pathways inside a phrase. I hope this class allows you to tune into your individual desires and needs while revelling in the shared experience of dancing and learning together.
Teacher Description:
Avery Smith is a dance artist living on the unceded territories of the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and sel̓íl̓witulh Nations. She has danced in site specific and multimedia pieces for artists including Company 605, Compagnie Vision Impure, Emmalena Fredrikkson, Farouche Collective, and others. Avery has worked as an associate producer to Company 605 and was a selected participant of The Banff Centre’s Collective Composition Lab for Music and Dance 2019. She has developed her own choreographies and has presented work at Left of PuSh 2023, The Happening’s Accelerate Showcase, The Suoni Per Il Popolo Music Festival, Festival of Recorded Movement, and others. Avery’s current creative interests reflect and explore her evolving identity as a full-time mother and part-time dancer/choreographer. Weaving these narratives, she is working to question and disrupt her own notions of rigour and structure in the search for a more comprehensive and embodied artistic practice.
Photography credits: Jamie Robinson
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