Articles tagged with: dance

• City Treaty

  Wednesday, September 02, 2015 | By Nikki Prudden

  

  Performance Dates:
  Saturday, September 19, 2015, 5 – 9 pm
  Sunday, September 20, 2015, 12:30 – 9:30 pm
  Location: In and around the DART Theatre and lobby, 15 Artists’ Common, Other Downtown Locations

  Click here to reserve your seat for a performance or register for a workshop.
  

  

  Saturday:
  5:00 PM Opening Ceremony
  5:30 PM Dance, Drumming & Vendor Fair
  6:30 PM Historical Talk with Rick Hill
  7:00 PM City Treaty Presentation

  Sunday:
  12:30 PM Perpetual Peace Project Concert
  2:00 PM City Treaty Presentation
  3:00 PM Workshops
  5:00 PM Closing Ceremony
  5:30 PM Celebration at Rise Above,
  120 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines
  

  Featuring a stage adaptation of Marvin Francis’ epic poem City Treaty, a historical talk with Rick Hill, workshops, dance demonstrations, music, food and more. The event wishes to honour the land the new theatre is built upon and open its doors to all peoples.

  Click here to download the City Treaty Newsletter (PDF)

   

  Visit the City Treaty website for more information

   

  Thanks to our partners and sponsors :
  Carousel Players, Native Friendship Centre, Rise Above Vegan Restaurant and Bakery, Brock University: Aboriginal Student Services, BSIG Research program, Department of Dramatic Arts and the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Office of Research Services Student Venture Program, Social Justice Research Institute, Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education. 
  
  Jessica Carmichael has gathered a St. Catharines Indigenous Theatre Projects Collective and is adapting the poem for performance with Falen Johnson, Steve Baranyai ,Cole Alvis and Shelley Niro. Jessica is an artistic associate at Native Earth who has just started as the new Artistic Director at Carousel Players in St. Catharines, Falen is a respected Six Nations playwright, Cole is the executive director of the Indigenous Performers’ Alliance, Steve is a musician performer with Perpetual Peace Projects, and Shelley is a respected multi-disciplinary visual artist.

  Marvin Francis (N. Alberta’s Heart Lake Nation d. 2005) received the John Hirsch Award for City Treaty in 2002. John K. Sampson described it in the Globe and Mail as: “Everything a great poem should be–nasty, rude, sneaky, cranky, smart, truthful and intelligent”.

  Tags: Brock University: Aboriginal Student Services, BSIG Research program, Carousel Players, City Treaty, Cole Alvis, dance, drumming, Falen Johnson, food, history, Indigenous Performers’ Alliance, Indigenous theatre, Jessica Carmichael, Marvin Francis, Music, Native Earth, Native Friendship Centre, Office of Research Services Student Venture Program, peace, Perpetual Peace Projects, poetry, Rick Hill, Rise Above, Rise Above Vegan Restaurant and Bakery, Shelley Niro, Six Nations, Social Justice Research Institute, St. Catharines Indigenous Theatre Projects Collective, Steve Baranyai, Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education, theatre, vendor fair, workshop
  Categories: Events

• Spring Course opportunity in Dance Education

  Wednesday, March 21, 2012 | By Brock University

  Looking for a unique course opportunity this Spring?

  Register for PEKN 2P06, running April 30th to June 1st , Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 to 13:30.  Registration opens for non-PEKN majors after April 5th.

  PEKN 2P06
  Dance Education
  Introduction to dance as an art form through making, performing and appreciating dance. Emphasis on the creative process, dance skills and vocabulary through exploration of dance concepts and observational skills.
  Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
  Restriction: open to BPhEd, BPhEd (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), BPhEd (Honours)/BEd (Junior/Intermediate) until date specified in Registration guide. After that date available to BKin and BSc (Kin) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 4.0 overall credits.
  Prerequisite(s): PEKN 1P90 and 1P93 or permission of the instructor.
  Note: students will be expected to pay the cost of a ticket to a dance performance on campus. Modes of instruction/evaluation will normally include vigorous physical activity.

  The foundation of this course is Laban’s Movement Principles coupled with Valerie Preston-Dunlop.  There will not be a critique based on a live performance in the spring session.  To view videos from past sessions of the course please go to the IRC and review the collection on reserve under PEKN 2P06.

  For more information contact Janet Westbury at jwestbury@brocku.ca

  Tags: course opportunity, dance, dance education, PEKN 2P06
  Categories: Announcements, Current Students, News

• Guest Visit by Cheryl Lalonde of Toronto Dance Theatre

  Sunday, November 06, 2011 | By Brock University

  Published on November 06 2011

  Students in second year Stagecraft and third year Stage Management recently had the opportunity to hear Cheryl Lalonde, the production/stage manager of TDT, speak about the her career experiences and creative challenges in the mileu of Canadian contemporary dance.

  Lalonde began her career in the arts with Act IV Theatre at Adelaide Court. After two years backstage at Toronto Workshop Productions, her design debut was for the premiere production of Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters under mentor and director Larry Lewis. Splitting her time between design and stage management has allowed her to travel the world as well as collaborate with many companies, including: Desrosiers Dance Theatre, Danny Grossman Dance Company, Fujiwara Dance Inventions, Eclectic Theatre, Alberta Ballet, Dreamwalker Dance Company, Theatre Smith Gilmour, and Kaeja d’Dance. Ms. Lalonde has served on the faculty of Theatre Arts at The Banff Centre for eight summers, and recently participated in a panel of Canadian Stage Managers to establish a DACUM occupational analysis for Stage Management. 2011 marks Cheryl’s eleventh season with TDT.

  Later that evening Christopher House, Artistic Director for TDT, invited the public for in an informal discussion of The Visual Art of Dance at the Niagara Artists Centre. DART first year students had previously attended a special workshop on movement lead by instructors of the TDT School and will also attend the presentation of Severe Clear in late November at the David S. Howes Theatre of the Brock Centre for the Arts. Lighting Design for Severe Clear is conceived by DART alumnus, Roelof Peter Snippe.

  Tags: Centre for the Arts, Cheryl Lalonde, Christopher House, dance, David S. Howes Theatre, NAC, Niagara Artists Centre, Roelof Peter Snippe, Toronto Dance Theatre, visiting artists
  Categories: Current Students, News, Visiting Artists