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Double Bill: X-ODUS & Crave

May 7-11, 2013 @ 8pm X-ODUS and Crave, a new double-bill delivering two takes on intimacy from one passionate couple, probes unsettled solitude and the attempt to reconnect. In Allen Kaeja’s X-ODUS, his “trademark stamp of hyper physical, high impact choreography” (Toronto Star) finds pathways and connections between five individuals as they struggle to find intimacy, vulnerability and depth in their fragile journey. To arrive, one has to leave. Karen Kaeja’s Crave inverts the beauty and chaos of intimacy in a telling duet of racing hearts that navigate loneliness, unsettledness and the hope that keeps us hanging on.

Karen and Allen's most recent concert garnered the 2011 NOW magazine finalist for Local Choreographers. Touted as "a thrilling glimpse into the future of Kaeja d’Dance" (MONDOMagazine) and "an original, powerful and artful masterpiece. They offer to their audience a freedom of expression where boundaries cease to exist.” (Mooney on the Theatre). Their summer’s success of Porch View Dances, envisioned by Karen, was the "most moving choreography of 2012, exploring the very essence of what makes us human" (Globe and Mail), and received Canada's inaugural national 2012 Canadian Dance Assembly 'I Love Dance' Community Award.

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When:

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 00:00

KAEJA (Kick Ass Elevations Jamming Affect) INTENSIVE

Participants:

Professional & Pre-Professional Dancers

KAEJA INTENSIVE
May 27-31, 2013, 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Public Showing: May 31, 2013, 3:30 PM
Ryerson University - Kerr Hall South (40 Gould Street, across from Balzac's Cafe)

Engage in Kaeja Elevations, improvisation and creative enquiry. Participants will collaborate in building a piece with one of the Kaeja's throughout the workshop.

All participants can expect to dance, fly, be elevated, create, collaborate and perform. Open to professional and pre-professional dancers, or individuals with a similar intensive physical training with a thirst for partnering, investigation and the creative process.

MORNINGS:
(10 - 11:30 AM) A beautiful warm up/class that gets you juicy and ignited, focused on finding the floor to support the architecture of flight in your solo and duet. Open to all. Drop-in's for a small fee are welcome.
(11:45-1:15 AM) Kaeja Elevations with Allen Kaeja. Allen's risky, yet grounded approach is "charged and surging with energy…. vehemently delivering every breathtaking movement and elevation." (MONDOMagazine). Previous experience in CI or Elevations not necessary to take this workshop, basics will be taught while offering continued training from previous Elevation workshops. This portion of the morning will have an emphasis on moving into flight and an introduction to creation with elevations. (Wednesday workshop will be improvisation with Karen Kaeja)

AFTERNOONS:
(1:45 - 3:30 PM) Creation process with either Karen (ensemble engagement of physical inquiry harnessing personal material) or Allen Kaeja (Kaeja Elevations)
(3:30 - 4:30 PM) - Optional free studio space available to participants for personal or related projects. Mentoring with Karen or Allen as desired.
PUBLIC SHOWING:
3:30 PM - Friday May 31, 2013

INFO/REGISTRATION:
T: 416-516-6030,
E: urban@kaeja.org
- pre-registration required for full (11:45 onwards) workshop (limited enrolment, application with biography required. No audition required).
- please indicate which creative process for afternoon you would like to participate in - either with Karen or Allen
- indicate if you would like use of afternoon studio space and why
- 2 partial scholarships available
- Kaeja d'Dance seeks one scribe for morning classes in exchange for afternoon creation process participation

Rate:

$190 + HST (before May 3) $250 + HST onwards

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