Early Spring 2025 Advanced Contact Improv with Kathleen Rea

Multiple dates / times

Kathleen Rea's Home Studio, (You will be given adress once you register), Toronto, Ontario, M6R 1J6, Canada

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Multiple dates / times

Kathleen Rea's Home Studio, (You will be given adress once you register), Toronto, Ontario, M6R 1J6, Canada.

Early Spring Advanced Level Contact Improvisation Classes

REGISTER:
https://www.eventzilla.net/user/REAson

DESCRIPTION:
This is an advanced level of study of Contact Improvisation through the lens of the Axis Syllabus with Kathleen who is a Certified Teacher of the Axis Syllabus.

- partnering a spinning body

- generating spinning and rolling as the flyer

- using kinetic chains to create a feeling of flow and lightness  as both the base and flyer

- getting up onto shoulder ledge and smooth confident exits for base and flyer

 

LEVEL: What does advanced mean in this context? It means you are:

  • You are comfortable with one of the following being a flyer or basing or with both.
  • You have well-practiced landing pathways and reflexes that are protective if you are falling out of a lift.
  • You are comfortable with inversions (being upside down).
  • You have intermediate skill at a high and low table
  • Experience with studying the Axis Syllabus can contribute to an advanced level as well.

DATES AND TIMES:
3 Class series
SUNDAY afternoon

Sunday, March 30 – 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Sunday, April 13 – 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Sunday April 27 – 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm

COST:
Full series - $120
Full series  - $105 (sliding scale)
Full series - $90 (lower sliding scale)  only 3 available
Full series - $75 (lowest sliding scale) only 2 available

Drop-in  - $50
Only available only if series is not sold out. As soon as series is sold out this option becomes unavailable 

People can choose "pay-at-door" on thier frist class through our Square reader (credit or debit). We do not accept cash.

If you want to take the full series and need to pay in installments just talk with Kathleen about this option.

LOCATION: Home studio in Roncesvalles area,

CLASS SIZE
Class size will only be 7 people dues to small studio size.

TEACHER BIOGRAPHY
Kathleen Rea danced with Canada’s Ballet Jorgen, National Ballet of Canada & Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). She fell in love with contact improvisation 22 years ago & has been involved in the community ever since. She has choreographed over 40 dance works and has been nominated for 5 DORA awards. Kathleen has a learning disability which means writing takes 6 times longer than average. It is one of life’s mysteries that despite this struggle she loves writing and is a published author (The Healing Dance). She has a Master’s in Expressive Arts with a minor in Psychology. She is a certified teacher of the Axis Syllabus and Buteyko Breathing. She is the director of REAson d’etre dance, a Toronto not-for-profit dance company that is contact improvisation based and produces a weekly jam, a Film Fest, and dance theatre productions. She has autism & works to educate the world about neurodiversity. She developed the well-read REAson d’etre dance Jam Guidelines (download here) which over the past 20 years have influenced consent culture in the contact improvisation worldwide community. She also is the founder of the Contact Improv Consent Culture Blog.

PRODUCED BY:
https://reasondetre.com/

FUNDED BY:
Toronto Arts Council
Ontario Arts Council through the Ontario Government
Canadian Heritage Foundation

REAson d'etre dance productions

http://www.reasondetre.com/

REAson d'etre dance strives to provide artistic expression through movement, inclusive of age, ability, level or background. We create, stage and program dance works based on Contact Improvisation so we can utilize the inclusiveness that can be a part of this dance form. Our vision is for both professional dancers and everyday people to be inspired by and invigorated through Contact Improvisation. This mandate involves initiatives that work to dismantle racism and ableism and other "isms", since their existence hinders us in achieving our mandate. We are committed to examining the art form of Contact Improvisation and acknowledging its history of inequity, ableism, and racism. We strive to engage in a continuing process of educating ourselves and acting for change. We believe that increasing accessibility breaks down barriers to dance, creating stunning humanity that is the heart of the artistic aesthetic we reach for. Our contact dance jams are the root from which all our programming grows. Our jams are a mix of performance, research, rehearsal, and incubator. A musician improvises, sweeping dancers into explorations of different themes. We believe teaming Contact Dance with exceptional live music deepens the form. The jams build community. It's about relationships, with the quality of communication being the aesthetic measure. Classes in functional movement help Contact Dancers move with ease and prevent injury. We see healthy movement as beautiful an

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