Leader: Cyrus Sundar Singh Location: Room 7-270, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy - Concordia University In-Person Session Dogs, Gods and City Hall is a collaborative 50-minute co-creative presentation that engages practice, theory and performance in the framing of the narrative. The participants are immersed in experiential [...]
Leader: Emily Rollie Location: ONLINE - TBA Online Session The field of intimacy choreography and direction has evolved and veritably exploded in recent years as more and more theatre artists, companies, and institutions recognize the import and necessity of creating a culture of consent in rehearsal spaces. While much of [...]
Leader: Lib Spry Location: Studio II, Concordia University In-Person Session As a practical, playful way to look at how to activate settlers to think about justice here on Turtle Island, I am proposing the playing of ¡Unsettling! which was my research-creation thesis in Cultural Studies at Queens and built on [...]
Leader: Gabriela Petrov Location: Room 7-270, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy - Concordia University In-Person/Hybrid Session For over seven years I have been investigating how contemplative practices can support artists in performance training. In order to contemplate, we have no choice but to slow down and [...]
Location: Studio I - Concordia University Leader: Shannon Hughes In-Person Rationale: This praxis workshop aims to blend academic inquiry with creative practice, exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and Reminiscence theatre in the creation of scripts that focus on social justice narratives. Participants will engage actively in a structured, [...]
Leader: Paolo Gruni Location: Room 7-425, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy Concordia University In-Person Session Capitalist Realism is the all-encompassing, colonizing, infinitely plastic and adaptable conception of reality intertwined with systemic injustice (Fisher, 2009). By ‘post-realist perception’, I mean an embodied sense of being-in-the-world corrosively leaking [...]
Leader: Cassandre Chatonnier Location: Room 7-425, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy Concordia University In-Person Session Theatrical design is often taught with a traditional, hierarchical approach. In such a process, the scenographic creation of a theatrical production consists of thinking and designing the design elements even before [...]
Leader: Rebecca Harries & Heather Lawford Location: Room 7-270, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy Concordia University In-Person This praxis session is both an introduction to and a conversation about the techniques, challenges and rewards of interdisciplinary collaboration. The praxis session will introduce the work of an [...]
Leader: Suzanne Liska Location: Room 7-270, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy Concordia University In-Person Session Somatic communities are at a crossroad in their attempts to address the lack of equity, diversity and inclusion awareness among practitioners and participants. Social somatic dance scholars, also known as “politicized” [...]
Location: Small Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre Convenors: Naty Tremblay, Sedina Fiati, Lexi Sproule (Members of the Switch Collective) This Praxis Workshop will invite up to 25 participants to join the Switch Collective in an exploration of our methodologies for developing radical & roving queer street performance. This is open to [...]