BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!

lemonTree studio is excited to bring you a Mind/Body and Authentic Movement Intensive with Tedi Tafel.

A 5 day workshop that will investigate the individuals capacity for expression, communication and creativity, through the bringing together of two very different, yet complimentary, physical practices: Mind/Body training and Authentic Movement.

Monday Oct 27-Friday Oct 31

10am--1.30pm daily.

Mind/Body begins with form and looks to find the life inside that shapes it sensation, intention, and engagement. Authentic Movement starts with impulse and explores the pathway into form. Seemingly opposite in approach their common goal is to create access and openness in the performing body. In combination, they provoke the individual towards new terrain. What happens when these different ways of being meet and collide? How do they feed each other, how might they inspire greater availability and freedom from habitual obstruction? Both practices challenge notions of self-judgment and expectation and invite a more open spirit, a true sense of working from where you are and of being in process.

Mind/Body: Tedi Tafels teaching of Mind/Body training is based on the research of Japanese Butoh dancer Min Tanaka but also enriched through the integration other somatic practices that focus on alignment and ease. MB is an energetic, dynamic workout that re-examines the mental structures and physical habits that can inhibit the potential state of the individual. Here we rigorously explore the body as a site of presence and transformation while cultivating full and continual attention and on-going mindful participation: a bringing of ones whole self to each action. As the mind drops into the body, a concrete experience of sustained presence is made possible.

Authentic Movement: Authentic Movement is a discipline rooted in the art of dance It is a self-directed practice of embodying internal impulse in which the body is seen as source and inspiration, to be attended to, listened to, with its stories, intelligence, perceptions and experiences. As we learn to suspend judgment and analytical thinking, a more receptive attitude is adopted. At the heart of the practice is the willingness to surrender to the experience of the moment and trust in the unknown. Giving up controlling, judging, and censoring, we enter a realm that is unplanned and often surprising, one that invites direct experience of personal and creative truth.

Tedi Tafel is a choreographer, performer and teacher based in Montreal. She makes site-specific performance events that blend movement, sound, video and architecture and challenge the dictates of the cityscape in terms of how we perceive our surroundings and how we habitually move inside them. For her, the body is the very site and vehicle of direct experience and movement is an entranceway into the deeper layers of what it is to be human. She has been greatly influenced by her studies in Japan with Butoh masters Min Tanaka and Kazuo Ohno and her long-term work with Authentic Movement pioneers Janet Alder and Judith Koltai. Over the past 20 years, her work as an artist has been presented across Canada, in Europe, Iceland and New York. Since 1994 she has taught a generation of actors and playwrights at the National Theatre School of Canada. She has also facilitated workshops across the country and at the Stratford Festival and Playwrights Workshop in Montreal.

$350

$280 for Actra/Equity/Cada Members or Students who have already taken the workshop in the past.

$50 Non-refundable Deposit to Hold the place down. Difference can be paid on the first day.

If interested please email Indrit Kasapi at indrit@lemontreecreations.ca to secure your spot!

RESERVE EARLY! LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE!

Image: Trajectory Fields by Antony Gormley.