Nov 26, 5-7pm | Led by artist facilitator Shannon Litzenberger (performing World After Dark on Saturday, November 23) and creative contributor Marie-Josée Chartier, this workshop will explore embodied practice, collaborative play, and improvisational strategies using movement and voice that support generative creation. We will discover ways of recognizing our default habits as artists, and cultivate practices that help us expand into new, imaginative possibilities. Working on developing our capacity for expanded attentional awareness, embodied imagination, non-verbal collaboration and embodied play will support our ability to generate creative possibilities.
Two hours | $20 | Gallery
SHANNON LITZENBERGER: An experienced artist facilitator, Shannon Litzenberger designs and animates workshops on movement, creation, collaboration, and leadership within artistic, educational and organizational settings. She draws from her 25+ years of experience in dance, physical theatre and interdisciplinary creation to engage participants in co-creative experiences centered in embodied and experiential learning. Her workshops typically offer experiences that enhance sensory attention, expand imagination, cultivate empathy, and strengthen our ability to relate, collaborate and create things together. She has worked with all kinds of people including from high school students to corporate executives, software designers and bankers, PhD Scholars and cultural leaders.
MARIE-JOSÉE CHARTIER: A multi-faceted artist, Marie-Josée Chartier moves easily between the worlds of dance, music, opera, and multi-media in her roles as choreographer, performer, director, vocalist, or teacher. Her choreographic works have been presented in festivals in Canada, Europe, and Latin America and have been featured on documentary films and national television. She is the recipient of the 2015 Jacqueline Lemieux Prize and the 2001 K.M. Hunter Artist Award. She has been nominated nine times for Dora Mavor Moore Awards, having won twice, for fifty-one pieces of silver and with the Collective Urge for And By the Way, Miss. Marie-Josée has choreographed and/or directed productions with Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, The Gryphon Trio, Toca Loca, Tapestry Opera, l’Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, le Théâtre français de Toronto, and others. She is a frequent guest teacher in modern dance, movement for singers, voice exploration and improvisation in Canada and abroad. Through her company Chartier Danse, acclaimed productions include petites danses, Stria, Red Brick celebrating composer Michael J. Baker with Arraymusic, Contes pour enfants pas sages with PPS Danse, Screaming Popes with fabrik Potsdam, and Bas-Reliefs with Danse-Cité.
