Join TSV in partnership with Matriarchs Uprising and guest artists Bella Waru (February 19) and Lara Kramer (February 21) who will be teaching Working Class the week of the festival!
*Please note there will be no class on Monday, February 17
Class Description:
Bella Waru (February 19):
Presented with Working class, Bella Waru, the choreographer of TOA III, leads a dance class exploring Waru’s personal movement strategies, choreographic ideas. the training and exercises specific to building the world of TOA III. Informed by land and animal study and their training in a combination of contemporary, cultural dance and movement techniques, this class will be high energy and filled with play!
Everyone is welcome to attend!
Lara Kramer (February 21):
Presented w/ Working class, Living Landscapes is about building relationships, relationships of our body with objects, text/word, textures, sound, land, and the varying visual registers that give space to forms of animacy. Activating, responding, discovering, and listening to the multitude of voices is at the heart of this exploration.
Everyone is welcome to attend!
Teacher Description:
Bella Waru is a takatāpui (queer) choreographer, dancer, musician, creative director & eternal student of the Māori healing, weaving & martial arts. Of Ngāti Tukorehe, Taranaki Tūturu & Celtic descent, born on Gadigal, raised on Yuin & now residing on Wurundjeri lands (AUS), they are a foreign Sovereign, navigating life, lore & culture from, toward & between Indigenous lands & peoples.
Their movement strategies span contemporary & cultural dance forms, as well as Mau Rākau, traditional Māori Martial Arts (trained under Te Ara Hononga - where they are a 3rd rank practitioner & teacher.) Choreographically, Waru seeks to draw connections, highlight relationality & kinship; articulating new-ancient possibilities through sensation & feeling to communicate what can sometimes only be experienced, not explained.
Lara Kramer is a performer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Oji-cree and settler heritage, raised in London, Ontario. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Her choreographic work, research and field work over the last fourteen years has been grounded in intergenerational relations, intergenerational knowledge, and the impacts of the Indian Residential Schools of Canada. She is the first generation in her family to not attend the Residential schools.
Kramer’s relationship to experiential practice and the creative process of performance, sonic development and visual design is anchored in the embodiment of experiences such as dreams, memories, knowledge, and reclamation. Her creations in the form of dance, performance and installation have been presented across Canada and Australia, New Zealand, Martinique, Norway, the US and the UK.
https://matriarchsuprising.com/
Photography credits L-R: Bella Waru by Jacinta Keefe Photography, Lara Kramer by Stefan Petersen
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