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Open Studio
Tuesdays in October & November
October 7, 14, 21 & 28
November 4, 11, 18 & 25
1:00pm - 4:00pm ET
Studio space and time to work on what you're working on. This program facilitates a space to gather and attend to what is emergent, to be social without an agenda, and to be inspired by others around you! Come with nothing but yourself, as you are! $10 for 3 hours of shared studio space at The Railpath Arts Centre!
Practice Lab: Thatness and Thereness with Shion Skye Carter, Mayumi Lashbrook, Masumi Rodriguez and Elena Kirby
November 1 at 12:30-2:30pm ET
In this workshop facilitated by Shion Skye Carter (dance artist, so-called Vancouver), Mayumi Lashbrook (dance artist, Tkaronto), Masumi Rodriguez (multidisciplinary artist, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal) and Elena Kirby (multidisciplinary artist, Tkaronto), the artists will share insights into collaborative practices bridging choreography and paper-making. Their collective project, Thatness & Thereness, uses “invasive” plant paper to create wearable pieces for performance, sparking other worldly beings with unique ways of moving. Participants will interact with sculptural paper pieces created by Masumi and Elena, learning about the paper-making process, integrated with improvised movement practice led by Shion and Mayumi investigating potential for movement creation with sculptural extensions of the body.
Over the summer and into the fall, Lara Kramer has been facilitating Collective Practice Project with artists:
ᑮᓯᑯᕽ ᑳᐯᑖᑯᓯᐟ Johnny Morin
Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier
Marcus Merasty
Nimikii Couchie
Samantha Sutherland
This CPP cohort comes together weekly to share methodologies, creation processes, choreography, values, desires, and nurture community connections with fellow Indigenous movement artists. The cohort will continue to work independently on their creation practice through our Residency Program.
They will hold a public closing meeting before the year’s end, so stay tuned for that!
Love-In is a not-for-profit artist-run dance organization based in Tkaronto.
We host an array of programming including in-person and virtual workshops, performances, facilitated talks, collective practices, & our annual Summer Love-In Festival.
read our values + mission statement
Toronto Dance Love-In is thankful to gather on the traditional Indigenous territory of Tkaronto. This is the ancestral and unceded land of the Wyandot people, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg and Mississaugas of the Credit. We recognize them and any other Nations acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded as the past, present and future caretakers of this Land. We are grateful to the Elders and Story-keepers who have been telling the story of this Land for generations. At Love-In, we are actively learning how to honour and upkeep the protocols of this territory and live in alignment with the treaties of this region. With these words we honour the Land and its caretakers. We commit to challenging the ongoing injustices and the impact of colonialism by providing spaces that operate from an anti-oppressive, social justice perspective.
