when ↓
October 15 + 16, 2024
10am - 11:30am ET

where ↓
Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement
225 Sterling Rd Unit 103, Toronto

accessibility ↓
Pia Bouman Schools’ main entrance has two steps to enter the lobby, and two steps from the lobby down into the studio area. There is a back entrance which is wheelchair accessible, through a loading bay.

about the sessions ↓ 
Exploring what is real and imagined, this class plays with the possibility of the body's capacity. Engaging with generative systems, we will work through anatomical organization and curiosity of state. This class begins with guided self-TLC to ground us before moving into folding, softening, sliding bones, expanding and compressing. Using scale and architecture to explore inner and outer landscapes, we will move through concave and convex systems to uncover different layers of ease and effort.

about the artist ↓ 
Vanessa Goodman respectfully acknowledges that she lives, works and creates on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. She holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University and is the artistic director of Action at a Distance Dance Society. Vanessa is attracted to art that has a weight and meaning beyond the purely aesthetic and uses her choreography as an opportunity to explore the human condition. Her choreographic practice is driven by weaving generative movement and sonic systems into performative environments. Her work creates a sense of intimacy between our surroundings and the body. She has received several awards and honours, including The Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award (2013); The Yulanda M. Faris Scholarship (2017/18); The Chrystal Dance Prize (2019); The Schultz Endowment from Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2019); and the "Space to Fail" program (2019/20) in New Zealand, Australia and Vancouver.

Vanessa's work has been presented in Vancouver by PuSH Performing Arts Festival, DanceHouse, SFU Woodwards, Music on Main, The Firehall Arts Centre, The Dance Centre, The Chutzpah! Festival and The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Presentations further afield include the Crimson Coast (Nanamio), Arts Spring (Salt Spring Island), The Living Things Festival (Kelowna), Fluid Festival (Calgary), The Brian Webb Dance Company (Edmonton), La Rotonde (Quebec City), The Mai (Montreal), CINARS official programming (Montreal), Kinetic Studio (Halifax), The Dance Made in Canada Festival (Toronto), On the Boards (Seattle), The Seattle Symphony, Risk/Reward Festival (Portland), Third Angle (Portland), Offset Dance Fest (Brooklyn), Estrogenius Festival (New York), Switch Lab (Bucharest), L1 Festival (Budapest), Estorgenuis (New York), BioFriction/ FACTT (Lisbon), Tanz Bremen (Germany), Tanzmesse (Germany), Spellbound Orbita (Italy), The National Centre of Dance (Bucharest), The Tranzit House (Cluj-Napoca), EDN Showcase (Timișoara European Capital of Culture in Romania), Vitlycke Centre for the Performing Arts (Sweden), Antistatic International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance (Bulgaria), The International Contemporary Dance Festival FIDCDMX (Mexico City) and The Bienal Internacional de Dança Do Ceará (Brazil).

Vanessa has been artist-in-residence at Cutivamos Cultura/BioFriction (Portugal), The Dance Centre, Dance Victoria, Harbourfront Centre, The Shadbolt Centre and The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, where she was also on faculty. Recently, Vanessa presented work and was a facilitator for Trinity Laban's 2020 Co-Lab Project (London). Commissions include Springboard Dansé Montréal, the plastic orchid factory (with Ame Henderson), Votive Dance, Lamon Dance, Modus Operandi and The SFU rep class.

This season's collaborations include works with artists Scott Morgan (Loscil); Caroline Shaw (USA); and Simona Deaconescu (Romania). Upcoming touring includes Boston, USA, with "Graveyards and Gardens" and a nine-country tour through Perform Europe of "BLOT". www.actionatadistance.ca

who are the sessions for? ↓
All interested in movement and embodied expression.

sessions cost ↓
Love-In is currently offering a pwyc sliding scale by using the discount codes listed below at checkout. We ask that community members with a consistent income or salary pay at the regular price so that we can support community members with less access to income, wealth, or assets to attend barrier free. Thank you for locating yourself in the place that best matches your economic situation and paying accordingly so that we can make our programs available to more people for years to come!

discount codes & donation options
ABUNDANT — add donation, no discount code used at check out
SUPPORTER — add donation, no discount code used check out
SOLIDARITY— 75% off
REDUCED — 50% off
ACCESS — 100% OFF (contact info@tolovein.com to barrier free registration)

abundant
This rate reflects a medium increase on the rate for the session. If you have access to a salary, savings, investments, assets, or generational wealth, paying this rate will subsidize the attendance of someone for whom cost is a barrier to attending. If you are moved to donate $10 or more, there is an option to do so.

supporter
This rate reflects a moderately increased rate for the session and will allow us to partially subsidize the attendance of folks for whom cost is a barrier. Please add a donation of $5 if you have access to a salary, savings, investments or assets.

regular
This rate reflects the regular cost for the session. Please select this rate if you have access to a regular income and are able to meet your basic needs around food, housing and transportation.

reduced
This rate reflects the reduced cost for the session. Please select this rate if you are able to meet your basic needs around food, housing and transportation, but have gaps in your income and no access to savings or familial financial support.

solidarity
This rate reflects the solidarity cost for the session. Please select this rate if you are able to meet your basic needs around food, housing and transportation, but don't have access to regular income.

access
The option to access this session at no cost ensures that members of our community for whom price is a barrier to participation are able to join us. Please email us at info@tolovein.com to receive this option. 

covid-19 & illness protocols ↓
Masks are not mandatory, but welcomed. Please use your discretion and prioritize your health as needed. Thanks for continuing to work with us to keep our most at risk community members safe.

acknowledgements ↓
Love-In is thankful to gather on traditional Indigenous territory known as Tsi’Tkaronto, “Where the trees meet the water” “The Gathering Place.” This land belongs to the Wyandot, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg and Mississaugas of New Credit. We recognize these nations 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 make the first stories of this land known. We honour the history of this place. Agreeing to continually support our Indigenous community and members, and to center Indigenous practice where and when appropriate. With our action, heart, and word, we commit to providing spaces for inclusivity, respect, love, and working to uphold the treaties of these territories. 

Toronto Dance Community Love-In is supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Toronto Arts Council.