This workshop is co-presented by New Works and The Dance Centre.

Share Dance In Practice 2024/25

Towards The Best Dance They Can Make:
Strategies to Offer Safe and Respectful Challenge Across the Full Spectrum of Dancing Bodies
with Adam Grant Warren

Sunday, March 9 | 12pm - 3pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre

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About the Workshop:

The In Practice series has hosted a number of workshops on ways to dismantle ableist structure -- ways to create and hold more inclusive dance spaces. Aimed at professional choreographers and community-engaged facilitators alike, this workshop asks an important followup question...
 
As we continue to create more inclusive spaces -- as we open the doors on an art form known for asking too much of even the most virtuosic bodies -- how do we safely and respectfully challenge the full spectrum of bodyminds who now want to join us in dance?
 
If people want to be pushed, how do we facilitate that? If people want to perform, how do we move beyond the well-intentioned but often damaging models that celebrate non-typical bodies "just for being up there"?
 
Drawing on a combination of movement and theatre practice, presentation and practical exercise, this workshop wonders: how do we encourage everydancer toward the best dance they can make?

 

About the Facilitator:

Adam is a movement artist, theatre-maker, writer, arts educator, and wheelchair-user who is grateful to dance on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. His career in performance and creation spans more than 20 years.
 
As an associate artist with All Bodies Dance Project, Adam's collaborations have featured at festivals including Vancouver's 12 Minutes Max, Victoria's SKAMpede, and Calgary's Fluid Festival. He recently completed a residency at The Dance Centre, where he was engaged with his new solo work, Good Bully.

Outside Vancouver, Adam is also part of New Works’ CanDance Exchange and Propeller’s Digital Disability and Dance initiative in Ottawa.
 
In the theatre, Adam is a Jessie Award winning actor whose west coast performance highlights include productions of his own shows, Last Train In and Lights, as well as Touchstone Theatre's Kill Me Now, and Realwheels Theatre's CREEPS. Looking ahead, his latest play, Saturday Nights at Axles, is in development at Realwheels, where he is now Co-Artistic Director and playwright-in-residence.

Visit him at adamgrantwarren.com

Registration and Cost
  • Suggested Workshop Registration $23
  • Sliding Scale Option $10-23

*Workshop registrants will never be turned away for lack of funds. If a registration fee is financially inaccessible to you, we invite you to self-identify to request a scholarship, no questions asked. Please reach out to marco@newworks.ca to request a scholarship to attend the next workshop. 

Access notes: 

Scotiabank Dance Centre is a wheelchair accessible and scent reduced venue. Gender Neutral washrooms are located on 6th and 7th floor.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessibility please send an email to marco@newworks.ca

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Top Photo by Luciana Photography.

About: Share Dance In Practice 2024/25