Small Group AT
AT Classes Wednesdays 9:00-10:30am May 6- June 10
$35/class or $160/6 classes (Max. 8 students)
AT Classes: Alexander Technique helps to free patterns of tension and begin to access your underlying support. Train your kinesthetic coordination and experience more effortless and efficient movement. Classes may include ‘hands-on-work’ with the teacher, movement explorations, developmental movement exercises, group discussions/observations and individual activities.
In your daily activities (computer work, housework, gardening, exercise) and/or performance (music, dance, acting, singing): Work better / Perform better / Free Patterns of Tension / Access Underlying Support / Improve Coordination / Enhance Efficiency
Dance Improv Classes Wednesdays 10:45-12pm May 6- June 10
Improv Dance: $20/class or $90/6 (Max. 12 students)
We will awaken our sensation and imagination to dance inspired by our use of space, shape and time in relation to others. Improv scores will range from solo, duet to group invitations informed by Suzanne's research in Viewpoints, Lower Left's Ensemble Thinking, Action Theatre, Laban and Butoh.
Location:
IGAC Studio 103, Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, Toronto, ON, M6J-2W5
AT Classes Wednesdays 9:00-10:30am May 6- June 10
$35/class or $160/6 classes (Max. 8 students)
AT Classes: Alexander Technique helps to free patterns of tension and begin to access your underlying support. Train your kinesthetic coordination and experience more effortless and efficient movement. Classes may include ‘hands-on-work’ with the teacher, movement explorations, developmental movement exercises, group discussions/observations and individual activities.
In your daily activities (computer work, housework, gardening, exercise) and/or performance (music, dance, acting, singing): Work better / Perform better / Free Patterns of Tension / Access Underlying Support / Improve Coordination / Enhance Efficiency
Dance Improv Classes Wednesdays 10:45-12pm May 6- June 10
Improv Dance: $20/class or $90/6 (Max. 12 students)
We will awaken our sensation and imagination to dance inspired by our use of space, shape and time in relation to others. Improv scores will range from solo, duet to group invitations informed by Suzanne's research in Viewpoints, Lower Left's Ensemble Thinking, Action Theatre, Laban and Butoh.
Location:
IGAC Studio 103, Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, Toronto, ON, M6J-2W5
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Collaborative embodied processes inform my teaching philosophy. Using an inquiry-based learning model, I pose questions, problems and scenarios to facilitate a student-centred learning environment. I teach professional and pre-professional dancers and actors and for the wider community. I have been a teacher since 2001 and I am a Certified Alexander Technique Teacher, and have an MFA in Dance Choreography and received Bachelor Degrees in Arts and in Education. I am contract faculty in the Dance department at York University and George Brown College's Theatre School. The main courses I teach are Conditioning, Dance Kinesiology, Movement for actors, Functional Movement, Somatics (Alexander Technique), Solo, Contact, and Ensemble Improvisation/Composition. The classes/workshops range from one hour introductory classes for individuals to full-year courses for groups. |
Current University/College Courses
Dance Department, York University - Dance Kinesiology, Somatics (Alexander Technique), Conditioning, Dance Improvisation
Media and Acting, George Brown College - Movement for Actors, Contact Improvisation, Performance Presence, Anatomy for actors
Dance Department, York University - Dance Kinesiology, Somatics (Alexander Technique), Conditioning, Dance Improvisation
Media and Acting, George Brown College - Movement for Actors, Contact Improvisation, Performance Presence, Anatomy for actors
Teaching Experience
- Part-time Faculty, George Brown College, Media and Theatre School (Movement, Functional Anatomy, Butoh, Somatics, Improvisation, Contact Improvisation), Toronto
- Contract Faculty (Conditioning, Somatics and Improvisation, Dance studies in film/video), York University, Toronto
- Acting Division Faculty Teacher at Randolph Performing Arts - College Program, Toronto
- Residencies for Toronto CI jams, C.I.N.N. (Tokyo), Leviathan Studio (B.C.), Collective Gulp Dance Projects (Ottawa), Artists’ Play Dance Company, Simcoe Dance, Peterborough, Calgary, and Buffalo jams.