UPCOMING

British Columbia Tour

Karen and Allen will be touring two lifeDUETs to B.C. from June 6-9, 2024 - Lasterday by Hanna Kiel and 25 to 1 by Tedd Robinson. The Kaeja’s lifeDUETs commissioning series for Karen and Allen Kaeja explore their lifelong creative and personal partnership. Many duets have toured across the world through Canada and to Spain, India, England, Japan, Mexico, Venezuela and Israel. They have been performed since the year 2000.

The lifeDUETs BC Tour is initiated by BCMAS (BC Movement Arts Society), and funded by the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts Touring. Get your tickets and see more info here:

Explore Dance: Dance Improv

Karen and Allen Kaeja will share their collaborative approach of listening, creating and inspired moving together. Investigating gesture and movement infused by identity and meaning, the workshop is fuelled by imagery and physical gesture, in and out of contact, as a generative and wholesome experience. Participants personal material will serve as kindling for the creative fire. Karen and Allen draw on 40 years of practice in improvisation, contact dance and professional creation with dancers and non-pro community movers. All are welcome.

KAEJA ELEVATIONS® CERTIFICATION 1

Taught by internationally recognized, award-winning choreographer and dance film director Allen Kaeja, The Art of Flying is the first of 3 levels of certification for Kaeja Elevations® (KE), an approach to partnering where participants from all experience levels are on an equal playing field. Join Allen Kaeja as he teaches Kaeja Elevations®(KE)! KE is an approach to partnering where all genders, experience and physique are on a level playing field. Rooted in contact improvisation, KE relies on the architectural structure of two bodies interacting while complimented by gravity, momentum, propulsion, breath and flow.⁠ Once qualified, you will be an independently certified KE: Level One practitioner able to teach movers of all ages to work collectively to safely soar through the air and surpass their own expectations.

For more info and to register, go to the Pulse Studios website.

EMPTY PAGES / TOUCHX MUSIC VIDEO

Coming soon! The Empty Pages (TouchX) music video.

Thanks to Greg and Fran for making beautiful music together and instigating this project! Sometimes, concepts fuel a life time of work. First stop for this film was an icecave during a cozy February winter week. The next stop is Iceland in April to complete the imagery palette!  The estimated launch of the music video is this fall - stay tuned!

Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts Digital Now program, and the original team of the TouchX journey.

KAEJA CREATIVE INTENSIVE - KINDLING THE CREATIVE FIRE

November 16-17, 2024

Pulse Studios in Calgary

During this two day dance making intensive, current investigations by each of the Kaeja's will be shared through their collaborative approach of listening, creating and inspiration.

Together, the participants will build a scored work with Karen and Allen, devising ensemble physical engagement and harnessing kinetic partnering, sensorial and theatrical investigations. Participants personal material will serve as kindling for the creative fire.

The intensive will culminate in a public sharing of the ensemble’s creation.

All are welcome who are pre and professional dancers, individuals having related physical training or movement practice, plus a thirst for partnering, investigation and the creative process are encouraged to register!

Registration is coming soon.

 

RESISTANCE-142466

A bold reimagining of Resistance to be re-named 142466.

The original choreography toured North America for seven years from 2000 through 2007, opening the Harbourfront Theatre’s 2000 Season. The choreography travelled from Mexico to the USA and across Canada with great success. Exploring the power of human spirit in the face of oppression and fear, 142466 personifies resilience and courage: six dancers and five benches on a sparse stage embody an environment of reflection, danger, and intimacy. 

Kaeja d’Dance is planning to premiere 142466 in the 2025/2026 season.