PERFORMANCE INTENSIVE:
YOGA AND CREATIVE PRACTICE
with Conrad Alexandrowicz and Sylvain Brochu
Come and join us for bodywork, improv, creative practice and yoga!
Wild Excursions Performance presents an intensive workshop designed for professional dancers and actors, and advanced students in both disciplines. Each day includes six hours in the studios of Victoria Dance connection. Morning sessions will focus on physical practice beginning with a warm-up session with Sylvain Brochu. This will include a short meditation session, the exploration of breathing technique (pranayama) and core strengthening warm up. This will be followed by an improv session based on the Viewpoints Technique with Conrad Alexandrowicz. Afternoon sessions will be divided into improvisation and creative practice under the direction of Mr. Alexandrowicz, and a yoga class led by Mr. Brochu.
CONRAD ALEXANDROWICZ is a director, writer and choreographer, and the artistic director of Wild Excursions Performance. He holds a B.F.A in Dance from York University, and performed with a number of Canadian dance companies, principally Dancemakers, which he joined in 1982, and where he began to produce his own work, much of which featured original text. In 1994 he moved to Vancouver where he founded Wild Excursions Performance. Selected credits include his dance-play for two men, The Wines of Tuscany, which toured across Canada and won numerous awards, and the satirical cabaret about women and dance entitled Dance, Little Lady! In 2002 he completed an M.F.A. in Directing at the University of Alberta, and then returned to Vancouver to restart the company and his professional career. His most recent completed work is Beggars Would Ride, a two-act musical satire about masters and slaves and a rebellion that goes wrong. In January he performed Radio Play, a dance-theatre duet created by Denise Clarke of One Yellow Rabbit for Canadian dance master Peggy Baker, at the High Performance Rodeo in Calgary. Conrad teaches movement for actors at the University of Victoria, and continues his explorations into that mysterious territory where dance and theatre overlap.
Originally from Sherbrooke, Quebec, SYLVAIN BROCHU has enjoyed a twenty-year career as a contemporary dancer, during which he has been recognized as a compelling performer and master of interpretation. He has worked with more than forty choreographers and, as a soloist, has a repertoire of uncommon eclecticism.
Sylvain was introduced to yoga as a child and then rediscovered it in the late ‘80s. In the last ten years, he has made it his practice. An inspiring teacher and educator, Sylvain is also a compassionate Shiatsu practitioner, an enthusiastic builder, an avid gardener and a passionate singer. After living in Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Quebec City, Sylvain has made his home on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, where he teaches contemporary dance and yoga and has a private Shiatsu practice.
When: Tuesday, June 23, to Friday, June 26, 2009
Where: Victoria Dance Connection, Suite 111, 2750 Quadra St. (north entrance), Victoria, BC
Fee: only $200 for the entire workshop. If you are unable to attend all sessions we will accept à la carte participation. Please see below for a schedule of fees:
| WORKSHOP FEE STRUCTURE | |||||||||
| Full workshop | 4 | blocks | $200 | ||||||
| Partial workshop | 3 | blocks | $180 | ||||||
| Partial workshop | 2 | blocks | $140 | ||||||
| Partial workshop | 1 | block | $80 | ||||||
| Single class drop in | $25 | ||||||||
Please note that the class is limited to twenty registrants. Deadline to register is June 16.
For information and registration please email or call 250.383.5564.