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April 26, 2010 - Contemporary Dance Courses Summer 2010
Megan Teaching and Performing in St Andrews, New Brunswick!
One-Day Workshops for Experienced Dancers From All Traditions
June 28
Dance Techniques & Fundamentals of Movement
10am – 4 pm/$100
Embody the principles of movement and breath control with renewed dynamism to move with greater ease, efficiency and clarity.
June 29
Improvisation & the Creative Process
10am - 4pm/$100
Expand your movement repertoire and explore what inspires you to dance, move and create through a range of exploratory tasks, movement experiments and approaches to improvisation. Identify the structure of impulse, rhythm, direction, and shape of movement to assemble new creations.
Save $20!! Take both workshops for $180.
With Dormitory accommodation add $25.00/night
For Children and Youth
July 5 - 9
Making Dances with Creative Movement
Session 1: Children 9-12yrs/10am –12pm/$120
Session 2: Youth 13-16yrs/2-4pm/$120
Students will explore the elements of dance, improvisation, imagination, sound and rhythm and have fun experimenting with movement. Everyone plays a part in composing a group dance which will be presented for friends and family at the end of the course.
Click here for registration information.
May 15, 2009 - The Nell Shipman Project
About Nell Shipman
She’s our forgotten star, a Canadian siren who carved out her own Hollywood North – far north – to become a symbol of untamed wilderness, and untamed womanhood. From 1912-24, Nell Shipman became famous as the heroine of silent film melodramas visibly set in the wilds of Canada, a land she called “the Great White North.” She worked as a writer, producer, director, star – and intrepid stuntwoman.
Macleans’s, Sept. 1, 2003
Barbara, Holly and I have been having fun and working hard to emulate the movement from the silent films of Shipman. The starting point for the process was my interest in the odd tempo and rhythmic quality of the movement in the films. We’ve been playing with the dramatics and the quirky, adventurous storylines in an abstract way.
The performance taking place at the Ward’s Island Club House will be the work as it has developed to date.
The dances performed at Up Darling 5 will be excerpts from the larger work.
Please contact Megan at meg@meganenglish.com if you have any questions.
You can access the ferry schedule to Ward’s Island at the following address:
http://www.toronto.ca/parks/island/springschedule.htm
The first phase of The Nell Shipman Project has been produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.