MOVING CONNECTIONS IS BACK FOR 2021! 

JOIN OUR FREE COMMUNITY MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Open to all ages, bodies, and abilities - No dance experience required

Winter and Spring sessions will once again bring us together online to engage in a live movement practice. In a choreographic sequence developed just before the pandemic, we will move in harmony with one another from our own spaces! These workshops provide a place for friends, family and community to come together to move and connect.

WINTER SESSION: FEBRUARY 1-24, 2021

These online workshops consist of Monday Learning Labs and Wednesday Practice Labs. 

Drop-in to one workshop or register for the whole series!

Week 1:

        Mon, February 1 | 5:00-5:45pm - Learning Lab (Part 1)

        Wed, February 3 | 5:00-5:45pm - Practice Lab

Week 2:

        Mon, February 8 | 5:00-5:45pm - Learning Lab (Part 2)

        Wed, February 10 | 5:00-5:45pm - Practice Lab

Week 3:

        Mon, February 15 | 5:00-5:45pm - Learning Lab (Part 1)

        Wed, February 17 | 5:00-5:45pm - Practice Lab

Week 4:

        Mon, February 22 | 5:00-5:45pm - Learning Lab (Part 2)

        Wed, February 24 | 5:00-5:45pm - Practice Lab

Learning Labs will be your tutorials for learning the choreographic sequence and will be taught in two parts (Part 1, Part 2). The labs will take you through 32 gesture-based movements - 16 in Part 1 16 in Part 2.

Practice Labs will provide an opportunity to fully engage in an uninterrupted run of the choreographic sequence, connecting Part 1 and Part 2 as a flowing, meditative movement practice.

*While it's not required, it's recommended to attend both Learning Labs (Part 1 & 2) prior to participating in a Practice Lab.

Videos with guided instruction, Closed Captioning, and ASL are also available for participants upon request.

The Moving Connections Project and workshops were conceived, directed and developed in 2018 by Karen Kaeja. The project is an umbrella for her three decades of research of intergenerational collaborative dance making created through personal stories. Karen’s early training as a Dance Therapist where she pioneered the first Dance Therapy program at North York’s Baycrest Centre, seeded her research on the benefits of dancing for older adults and has now blossomed into the Moving Connections Project.

Moving Connections is made possible by the generous support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the University of Calgary / Kaeja d’Dance partnership SSHRC grant - Moving Connections and aging partnership: sharing danced memories to build meaningful relations led by Dr. Pil Hansen.

Header photo: Moving Connections Fall Outdoor Practice 2020 - Photo by Drew Berry