Embodied Ensemle Play

Embodied Ensemble Play – Expanding our Capacities for Embodiment, Attention, and Togetherness through Embodied Dance and Theatre Methodologies.

March 25 | 1915h – 2115h Studio 303

March 26 | 13h – 16h Circuit-est | Studio Peter Boneham

March 27 | 13h – 16h Circuit-est | Studio Peter Boneham

March 28 | 13h – 16h Circuit-est | Studio Peter Boneham

Studio 303 | 372 St. Catherine St. W. Montreal

Studio Peter Boneham | Circuit-est | 2022 Sherbrooke St. E. Montreal

Each day will include embodied practice, a break, and time for discussion.

This workshop series is designed to ignite our capacities for collaborative creation and ensemble-based play. Through embodied practice, collaborative games, and improvisational scores, we will develop capacities for collective sensory attunement, expanded attentional awareness, embodied imagination, ensemble building, resilience, generative non-verbal collaboration, and movement-based play. These explorations will be improvised and emergent! You are welcome to come to any or all of the sessions, though attending multiple days is encouraged. Each session will include time for discussion and feedback.

These sessions are led by dance artists Shannon Litzenberger and Mairéad Filgate who are working together toward developing an approach to collective leadership and co-creation using embodied, improvisational practice methodologies. We are interested in the ways that this work, and its capacities for building trust, care, inclusivity, imagination, and resilience, can be applied in contexts beyond the arts sector, including corporate, healthcare, education, and social service settings.

The sessions are free to participate in. You are welcome to come for 1, 2, 3 or 4 days however there is limited space so please let us know what days you will be coming. If something comes up and you can’t make it, please let us know, so the space can be offered to another participant.