Open Workshop Heather Myers
 photo by Chris Randle
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Embodied Transpositions: Your Creative Process
November 29-December 3 10AM-2PM Scotiabank Dance Centre Inverso is excited to present this thoughtful and engaging workshop by Artistic Associate, Heather Myers through our new OPEN SERIES. Heather is a valued artist in our midst in Vancouver’s local dance scene who approaches her practice with intelligence and openness, backed by a vast wealth of experience. |
Workshop Description
This 5-day workshop is a way for emerging and professional contemporary dance artists to move, talk and connect through some approaches to creative process.
Embodied Transpositions may serve makers wanting to invigorate their practice, and/or those wanting to deepen their craft as interpretive artists. The workshop is meant to support the explorations of each individual equally, without emphasis on any one creation or creator.
Each day will begin with an Improvisation class that moves from somatic experiencing to the incorporation of form, reflex and decisive delivery, as we open to our physicality, environment and the people around us. The workshopping time will move into a bodily exploration and exchange around the idea of transposition as a tool for inspiring, relating and making.
We will use existing visual or written texts as interfaces to express ourselves, articulate interests and exercise interpretive wildness; improvise as a group; transpose spontaneous and taught material in obvious and subtle ways; work on our own mini compositions; practice supportive and generative responses to the work of others, articulate connections between movement experiencing and the reality of our lives, and drill down on our unique interpretive powers.
*Bring a pen/pencil and a notebook that you can pull the pages out of if needed.
*On the 2nd day, please bring an object, image or text that sparks curiosity or pleasure for you, or that relates to a creative process that you are currently entrenched in and wanting to explore.
BIO
Heather synthesizes her experience as a performer, maker and facilitator with somatic and expressive arts approaches to support dance-based exploration. Curious about the idea of authenticity in performance, and about creativity as an act of transmission and transformation, her workshop approaches aim to gently enrich the excavating/generating/discovering process, and serve artistic intelligence.
Heather has performed works by William Forsythe, Crystal Pite, Ohad Naharin, Marina Mascarel, Lucinda Childs, and others; she has worked as a creative assistant/rehearsal director to Rachel Meyer, Lesley Telford and others and has made numerous works of her own; she is completing the Tamalpa Institute’s Teacher Training program and has led creative process workshops locally and in Singapore and Taipei.
Heather gratefully resides on unceded Coast Salish territory.
This 5-day workshop is a way for emerging and professional contemporary dance artists to move, talk and connect through some approaches to creative process.
Embodied Transpositions may serve makers wanting to invigorate their practice, and/or those wanting to deepen their craft as interpretive artists. The workshop is meant to support the explorations of each individual equally, without emphasis on any one creation or creator.
Each day will begin with an Improvisation class that moves from somatic experiencing to the incorporation of form, reflex and decisive delivery, as we open to our physicality, environment and the people around us. The workshopping time will move into a bodily exploration and exchange around the idea of transposition as a tool for inspiring, relating and making.
We will use existing visual or written texts as interfaces to express ourselves, articulate interests and exercise interpretive wildness; improvise as a group; transpose spontaneous and taught material in obvious and subtle ways; work on our own mini compositions; practice supportive and generative responses to the work of others, articulate connections between movement experiencing and the reality of our lives, and drill down on our unique interpretive powers.
*Bring a pen/pencil and a notebook that you can pull the pages out of if needed.
*On the 2nd day, please bring an object, image or text that sparks curiosity or pleasure for you, or that relates to a creative process that you are currently entrenched in and wanting to explore.
BIO
Heather synthesizes her experience as a performer, maker and facilitator with somatic and expressive arts approaches to support dance-based exploration. Curious about the idea of authenticity in performance, and about creativity as an act of transmission and transformation, her workshop approaches aim to gently enrich the excavating/generating/discovering process, and serve artistic intelligence.
Heather has performed works by William Forsythe, Crystal Pite, Ohad Naharin, Marina Mascarel, Lucinda Childs, and others; she has worked as a creative assistant/rehearsal director to Rachel Meyer, Lesley Telford and others and has made numerous works of her own; she is completing the Tamalpa Institute’s Teacher Training program and has led creative process workshops locally and in Singapore and Taipei.
Heather gratefully resides on unceded Coast Salish territory.