photo of Daria Lomangino captured by Jeremy Mimnagh
adelheid
SUMMER
INTENSIVE
June 22-26
featuring cast members from tender
Heidi Strauss
Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier
Lukas Malkowski
Katie-Adams Gossage
Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier
Lukas Malkowski
Katie-Adams Gossage
Venue
Schedule
Intensive days run 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
9:30-11:00 Flomentum w/Lukas Malkowski
11:15-12:45 flying low/passing through w/Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier
1:45-3:30 creation lab 1 w/Katie-Adams Gossage
3:45-5:30 creation lab 2 w/Heidi Strauss
11:15-12:45 flying low/passing through w/Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier
1:45-3:30 creation lab 1 w/Katie-Adams Gossage
3:45-5:30 creation lab 2 w/Heidi Strauss
Cost
$600/wk (Early Bird: $550 until May 1)
Priority given to participation in the full intensive
single morning classes possible - waiting list; $20/class
If cost is a barrier, reach out to info@adelheid.ca
Priority given to participation in the full intensive
single morning classes possible - waiting list; $20/class
If cost is a barrier, reach out to info@adelheid.ca
Registration deadline June 8
Open to professional dancers & dancers who have completed (or are in their final years of) professional training.
Descriptions:
Bio:
Flomentum: Lukas Malkowski
flomentum - flight momentum embodies science physics principles to flow like water & fly like the wind. Harnessing gravity to turn falling into flying, this class aims to build dynamic, reactive movement in and out of the floor. Flomentum is influenced by contemporary dance, yoga, capoeira, acrobatics and break (breakdance) techniques. Jumping between functional improvisation concepts, grooves and choreographed combinations, participants will unlock their own dynamic flow and harness the power of their own momentum!
flomentum - flight momentum embodies science physics principles to flow like water & fly like the wind. Harnessing gravity to turn falling into flying, this class aims to build dynamic, reactive movement in and out of the floor. Flomentum is influenced by contemporary dance, yoga, capoeira, acrobatics and break (breakdance) techniques. Jumping between functional improvisation concepts, grooves and choreographed combinations, participants will unlock their own dynamic flow and harness the power of their own momentum!
Lukas Malkowski (he/they) is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult), performance maker and Aquarius working in Canada and Europe. Embodying physics, voice, and Sign, he has choreographed full-length dance works, ambient sets, music videos, and films for Sam Slater/Joker film, LBT, and DJ Luke Slater, at CTM Festival (Berlin), FestivalTransAmérique (Montreal), and the Schrittmacher Festival (The Netherlands), John Wick 4, Babylon Berlin, Jessie Murph’s SEX HYSTERIA THE END, and independent films with Jasmine Ellis Dance Projects and Jacob Jonas The Company. A sought-after dance educator, his teaching practice, Flomentum, is driven by visual, tactile embodiments of flight momentum. Lukas has taught and choreographed for TMU, DAI, Rosedale Heights School of the Arts (where he began dancing), Staatsteater Kassel, Staatsballett Berlin, Marameo, Dock 11, Tanecno Festival, and Tanzfabrik.
Flying Low and Passing Through: Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier
This floorwork class combines Kéïta’s vast knowledge in different dance techniques with a focus on David Zambrano’s techniques of Flying Low and Passing Through. These techniques work with physical and invisible spirals within the body and room, to help the dancers go in and out of the floor with agility and ease. This class aims to develop dancers’ comfort in floorwork, challenge them to learn new pathways, and find the joy of dancing with community.
This floorwork class combines Kéïta’s vast knowledge in different dance techniques with a focus on David Zambrano’s techniques of Flying Low and Passing Through. These techniques work with physical and invisible spirals within the body and room, to help the dancers go in and out of the floor with agility and ease. This class aims to develop dancers’ comfort in floorwork, challenge them to learn new pathways, and find the joy of dancing with community.
Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier is a queer, Métis, Franco-Manitoban based in Tkaronto. They are continuously discovering the role these intersecting identities play in their art as a dancer, choreographer and educator. Collaboration is at the forefront of how Kéïta creates, and their interdisciplinary works are often tied to their identity and values. Over the last few years she has studied Flying Low & Passing Through with David Zambrano, in Brussels, Belgium. She continues to develop these techniques and bring them into her practice to share with the canadian dance community.
CREATION LAB 1: Katie-Adams Gossage
Katie conceptualizes her choreography as visual art that employs physicality as its medium. Typically working with a singularly-focused, sustained image, she combines highly specific aesthetic and choreographic material with a performer's spontaneous felt sense in order to create worlds that elicit emotional metaphor and highlight the politics of the body. In her lab, you can expect a playful yet focused approach that will necessitate both intellectual and physical rigour. You will encounter paradoxical feats, leaning into the tender spaces between subject and object, agency and constraint, distortion and sublimity. Expect equal doses of laughter, sweat, choreographic puzzles, and reflection!
Katie conceptualizes her choreography as visual art that employs physicality as its medium. Typically working with a singularly-focused, sustained image, she combines highly specific aesthetic and choreographic material with a performer's spontaneous felt sense in order to create worlds that elicit emotional metaphor and highlight the politics of the body. In her lab, you can expect a playful yet focused approach that will necessitate both intellectual and physical rigour. You will encounter paradoxical feats, leaning into the tender spaces between subject and object, agency and constraint, distortion and sublimity. Expect equal doses of laughter, sweat, choreographic puzzles, and reflection!
Katie Adams-Gossage (she/her) is an independent dance artist from Montreal, currently performing, creating, and teaching in Toronto. She is committed to a holistic dance philosophy, and consequently centres education, performance, process, relationships, and social context in equal measure. Katie’s choreographic work has been presented by SummerWorks, Nuit Blanche, Fall for Dance North, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, and additionally supported by Lindy Green, Sam Chaiton, the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Across Oceans Arts, Pride Toronto, and the Toronto Biennial of Art. Alongside her choreographic pursuits, Katie has performed in works by many of Toronto’s most notable choreographers, including Heidi Strauss, Darryl Tracy, Jenn Goodwin, Pulga Muchochoma, Katherine Semchuk, and Tavia Christina. She hones her teaching practice as a faculty member at Dance Arts Institute and as a guest teacher at reputable institutions throughout the city.
CREATION LAB 2: Heidi Strauss
Diving into exercises in creating responsive networks, through games of listening we will work together on collective transformation. With a playful commitment to co presence, we’ll develop a score that makes space for agreement and counterpoint as a way of placing relationship at the centre of choreographic inquiry. Inevitably, we’ll explore adaptation, changing our minds (and directions), and becoming friends with fluidity in the course of our short, but full, time together.
Diving into exercises in creating responsive networks, through games of listening we will work together on collective transformation. With a playful commitment to co presence, we’ll develop a score that makes space for agreement and counterpoint as a way of placing relationship at the centre of choreographic inquiry. Inevitably, we’ll explore adaptation, changing our minds (and directions), and becoming friends with fluidity in the course of our short, but full, time together.
Heidi Strauss' curiosity about human behavior is situated in the physical capacity of the body. She explores relationships to consider the ‘realness’ of where and who we are, here and now – how we are affected by the world around us. In playing with how performance is seen/experienced, she looks to deepen connection with others while making space for self-reflection; she creates post-immersive, installation, ambulatory, site-sensitive works for theatre, non-theatre and digital environments. A KM Hunter and multi-Dora Award winning choreographer, she has been commissioned by/choreographed for Toronto Dance Theatre, Mocean Dance, The Frankfurt Opera, The Canadian Opera Company, Volcano Theatre, the Stratford Festival, Ottawa Dance Directive, among others. She is adelheid’s artistic director and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute. adelheid.ca