Dance Dreams and Disco at Arts Assembly, October 15th

DANCE, DREAMS AND DISCO | Emmalena Fredriksson

October 15, 2-4pm at Saint Monica’s Parish, 6404 Wellington Ave

Price: 25.00

For more information about Arts Assembly go to: http://artsassembly.ca/index.php/workshops/

Dance Artist Emmalena Fredriksson will lead a two hour workshop combining practices of experiential anatomy, social dreaming and disco dancing. Exploring both our individual and collective impulses to dance, the session will begin with a movement warm up allowing participants to tune in, stretch and focus on their own body’s needs and desires. Following this, we will connect with one another through a dream sharing exercise that will lead into a playful group dance improvisation with abstract disco. Through the combination of these three approaches Fredriksson will create a space to contemplate and discuss the experience of dance as felt in our physical bodies, collective mind and through social interaction.

This workshop is open to all ages, experience, and abilities.

Born in Sweden, Emmalena Fredriksson received her training at Balettakademien in Umeå and at SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) in Austria. She holds an MFA degree from Simon Fraser University and has presented choreographic work, performed and taught internationally with Daghdha Dance Company (IE), Pact Zollverein (DE) and Falmouth University (UK) among others. Based in Vancouver, Canada since 2013 her work has been presented in Dance in Vancouver’s Choreography Walk curated by Justine A. Chambers, The DanceCentre’s Discover Dance Series and at the Audain Gallery. Emmalena regularly teaches at Modus Operandi, Harbour Dance Centre and Training Society of Vancouver. Continuing her research into choreography as a relational practice in the expanded fields of dance, upcoming work includes collaborations with the visual art platform HAUNT, composer Alex Mah (EDAM) and a virtual reality dance film project.