adelheid - winter workshop

tune in [toronto]

tune in with us.

December 11-15 2023, 12-3pm
10am-12pm class
1pm-3pm workshop
Toronto Metropolitan University - School of Performance, 345 Yonge St.

Morning class will move through floorwork to looping phrases that pass from floor to standing and back again. We’ll follow anatomical and gravitational pathways to play with momentum and balance. We’ll dissect initiation points, micro-openings,and directional shifts that give way to finding individual phrasing within larger structures and sequences. Over the week, as phrases expand, we’ll explore efficiency and range to build endurance and capacity for play in the body.

The afternoon workshop will investigate ways of opening up movement possibility through practices that engage with imagery, time, and the senses in various ways. We will work with different approaches to spontaneous creation, with a particular mind to collective focus, interaction, and presence. Tuning in individually and building on our developing skills together, we will listen as a group to what emerges, working together to arrive at a score by the week’s end.

tune in [toronto] is guided by Heidi Strauss.

Note:
$175 for the week; sliding scale available. If cost is an issue, please reach out to info@adelheid.ca
Priority given to those who can do the whole week.
Having a pre-existing movement practice (including being self-taught) is recommended.

tune in is open and welcoming to:
emerging, mid-career and established artists,
artists identifying as LGTBTQ2S+,
Black artists,
Indigenous artists,
artists identifying as People of Colour,
- and any/all intersections of the above.

If interested, please fill out this brief form.

Question? Write us.

Tavia Christina in adelheid's zero in workshop, January 2023, photo by Jeremy Mimnagh.

winter workshop is an annual week-long dance and movement intensive. It usually follows a two-fold format: a contemporary class with live music followed by different improvisational and task-based collaborative explorations. Its approach changes from year to year but the focus is always towards artistic questioning and development.