Movement Workshop

Helen Walkley is an independent performer, choreographer, improviser and teacher currently based in Vancouver, BC. She has also lived and worked extensively in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States. Her work has been funded by the Canada Council, BC Cultural Services, the Canadian Embassy in Bonn and the Seattle and King County Arts Commissions. She has performed at the New York Improvisation Festival and Dance Theater Workshop/NY, the American Dance Festival, On the Boards/Seattle, Danceworks/Toronto, the Edge Festival/Vancouver, Danslab/Amsterdam and the Tanzfabrik/Berlin. She is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst and has a M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University. She has taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of Calgary, Virginia CommonWealth University, the Laban Institute for Movement Studies/NY and the School for New Dance Development in the Amsterdam. In 2002/03 she was an Artist in Residence at the Dance Centre in Vancouver. She has conducted integrated dance/movement workshops over the past two years at G. F. Strong Rehab Centre, and through S4SDAC at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.

In this workshop, a warm up process based in hands-on techniques and movement patterning will be followed with improvisational scores to develop relationship in the expressive possibility of space in physical form, negative space (space between the bodies) and location in stage space.

kickstART2 Appearance
Sunday September 19, 2004  9:30 am- 2 pm
Dance Studio $22/$17