Join us to explore the many faces of community-engaged dance through panel discussions, workshops, performances, dialogue circles, and more.
Date/Time: Sep 17 2016, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Vancouver, Roundhouse Community CentreCost: $25.00
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For makers, organizers, thinkers, and doers – this symposium brings together artists, programmers, students and community participants interested in creating and performing dance as they build community together.
Friday, September 16
9am: Registration and coffee
10am: Acknowledgement of Place and Welcome
Movement Warm Up
Caroline Liffmann leads a short session to wake up brains and bodies
10:15am: Leading From Beside: Community Engaged Dance in Recreation
Vancouver Park Board Arts Programmers Marie Lopes and Cyndy Chwelos unpack their research from their recent paper Leading from Beside: Community Engaged Arts in Recreation. Their work broadly explores community engaged dance in recreation; from the productive intersections of leisure theory and community-engaged arts discourse, to a nuts and bolts, on the ground analysis of the successes, challenges and learnings emerging from community-engaged artist in residence projects across the Vancouver Park Board.
11:15am: Break
11:30am: Dance at a Glance
5 minute performances by community engaged dance ensembles led by professional artists including:
All Bodies Dance, Foolish Operations Ensemble, Polymer Dance , V’ni Dansi, and a video excerpt of Le Grand Continental by Sylvain Émard Danse.
12:15pm: LUNCH: Beautiful Soup
In the spirit of Lewis Carroll’s Mock Turtle, we offer beautiful soup ‘waiting in a hot tureen’. Mull over the morning with a warm bowl and a fresh roll.
1pm: Workshops: Experience Community Engaged Dance
It’s time to get a move on. Participate in an introductory community engaged dance workshop and discuss your experience in a debrief with artists and fellow participants. Workshop leaders include: Naomi Brand, Mirae Rosner, Olivia C. Davies, Caroline Liffmann and Julie Lebel.
2:15: BREAK
2:30: The Big Check-in
Questions? Observations? Disruptions? Inspirations? Reflections?
Bring it on.
2:45: Panel Discussion: Strategic Partnering and Increasing Capacity
Accessible and engaging community engaged dance is exploding in popularity in Vancouver. How do we build on existing practices, explore new models and do more of this work? Panelists include: Am Johal SFU Vancity’s Office of Community Engagement; Joel Klein, Made in BC; Margaret Naylor, The Arts and Health Project; Julie Poskitt, BC Arts Council and Judith Marcuse, International Centre of Art for Social Change
4:00: Evaluations, Networking, Closing
Saturday, Setpember 17
10am: Acknowledgement of Place and Welcome
10:15am:Movement Warm Up
Luca Silvestrini leads a short session to wake up brains and bodies
10:30am: Panel: Inclusive Dance – Models of Practice
This panel of professional dance artist explores existing models and practices in community-engaged dance and the necessity for new and changing models of practice. We complicate the questions – how is dance inclusive? Who gets to dance? What gets overlooked? What constitutes success?…and more. Speakers: Naomi Brand, Miriam Colvin, Margaret Grenier, Karen Jamieson, Miriam Esquintin, Alvin Erasga Tolentino
noon: LUNCH: Beautiful Soup 2
Same sentiment, different beautiful soup.
1:15pm: Everybody Dance
The afternoon is a large invitation to symposium attendees and the general public to choose from an array of 6 community engaged dance workshops with diverse approaches, styles and disciplines and get moving!
Open to all ages and abilities, no experience necessary.
Workshops with:
Community Verve
Dance Troupe Practice
All Bodies Dance Project
MachineNoisy
Polymer Dance
V’ni Dansi
3:15pm: Everybody Dance Together
Join Caroline Liffmann, Anna Kraulis, Lara Barclay and community dancers to learn and perform a short excerpt of ensemble choreography from Sylvain Émard’s Le Grand Continental.
4pm: Evaluation, networking and farewells
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