Kaeja d'Dance
734 Euclid Ave M6G 2V2 Toronto, ON, Canada

1 last week of Moving Connections with 3 more workshops including movement explorations guided by facilitators, inspired by imagery of the gestures in the Heart Phrase. Katherine (@kchuk ) is back for today’s Learning Lab! She will be leading us through gestures 23-32, which includes Gesture 30 by Sallie Lyons. She described this movement with the phrase and something catches your heart and this inspired the name of the entire 32-gesture choreographed sequence. Regist...er now at https://app.tickettailor.com/events/kaejaddance1/488502# And join our online community this week: * Monday, April 19 (Learning Lab with Katherine) * Wednesday, April 21 (Practice Lab with Irma) * Saturday, April 24 (Practice Lab and SOCIAL with Nickeshia and Karen) All workshops are FREE and begin at 5:00PM EST We welcome you to join us at any time; for one workshop or for the rest of the session! . . . . #dance #movement #movingconnections #kaejaddance #onlineworkshop #danceworkshop #moveandconnect #contemporarydance #dancepractice #onlinedance #alonetogether #onlinecommunity #freeworkshop #movementpractice #torontodance #newhorizons #alonetogather #todances See more

In lieu of our cancelled Outdoor Practice Lab, there will be an additional Online Practice Lab and Social (1 Hour Workshop) on Saturday, April 24th at 5PM EST on Zoom! We hope you can join us for this special workshop grab your beverage-of-choice, and for the last 20 mins we will chat with the community of movers we have connected with over the course of these sessions. Register now for the last week of Moving Connections and our final Practice Lab & SOCIAL: https://www.ti...ckettailor.com/events/kaejaddance1/488502 We are so grateful for all of your continued engagement Thank you for the incredible energy that you bring to our Moving Connections community! . . . . #dance #movement #movingconnections #kaejaddance #onlineworkshop #danceworkshop #moveandconnect #contemporarydance #dancepractice #onlinedance #alonetogether #onlinecommunity #freeworkshop #movementpractice #torontodance #newhorizons #alonetogather #todances

Tia Kushniruk's dance film monolith premieres tonight at 9pm EST! "monolith illustrates how women are exploited by powerful figures, oftentimes under the guise of good intentions. The main character, Subject 71 is confined to an existence where she must meet the expectations and cater to the demands of The Monitor: a narcissistic and malicious being whose masked face continues to glare with manipulative expression." Don't miss this incredible piece from Mile Zero Dance!... https://www.facebook.com/events/213574130012235/

Feelings participants were left with this week: Nourished - Freedom - Smiling - Uplifting - Relaxing and Flowing - My heart is full... ONE WEEK LEFT OF FREE WORKSHOPS:... * Monday, April 19 (Learning Lab with Katherine) * Wednesday, April 21 (Practice Lab with Irma) * Saturday, April 24 (Practice Lab & Social with Nickeshia) Register now for Moving Connections Online: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kaejaddance1/488502 We welcome to join these workshops at any point of the Spring Session - Haven’t learnt all the gestures yet? Not to worry! Our facilitators will be demonstrating the gestures at all times, moving along with you. Open to all people, ages, bodies, and abilities - No dance experience required. Let’s connect online until we can connect in person! . . . . #dance #movement #movingconnections #kaejaddance #onlineworkshop #danceworkshop #moveandconnect #contemporarydance #dancepractice #onlinedance #alonetogether #onlinecommunity #freeworkshop #movementpractice #torontodance #newhorizons #alonetogather #todances

Irma Villafuerte returns for Moving Connections Online This beaming human being will be facilitating tomorrow's Practice Lab! Join us TOMORROW from 5:00-5:45PM EST on Zoom. Register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kaejaddance1/488502 "Really want to thank Irma for her previous workshops this month she really made for a warm engaging atmosphere (not easy virtually!) and somehow made everything fun and accessible and not intimidating, and the pacing was just right...." - Moving Connections Online Winter 20221 participant Spring Session runs until April 24th! Moving Connections is open to people of all ages, bodies and abilities. We welcome you to join us at any time! Photo by Drew Berry #dance #movement #movingconnections #onlineworkshop #danceworkshop #moveandconnect #contemporarydance #dancepractice #onlinedance #alonetogether #onlinecommunity #freeworkshop #movementpractice

Peggy has been such an incredible visionary, voice and inspiration in our Toronto dance community and Canada, for so many decades. It's been an honour for us to be involved in different experiences with her. We wish her all the best on her continued adventure in life and art. https://peggybakerdance.com/wind-down

Those walls were like the brick and mortar of my soul for 21 years. - Karen Kaeja Great article on the closing of Dovercourt House: https://www.thedancecurrent.com//dovercourt-house-close-af

Grounded and floating at the same time.. - Moving Connections Spring Participant Week 2 of Spring Session Starts TODAY Join us for our Moving Connections workshops this Monday and Wednesday from 5:00-5:45PM EST! ... This week we are focusing on gestures 13-22, with more guided movement explorations. We will flow through our full 32-gesture Heart Phrase (choreographed sequence) on Wednesday! With Ontario’s latest state of emergency and stay-at-home order, it is more important than ever to keep moving and stay connected - we’re in this together and we are so thankful for our online community! Link to register: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kaejaddance1/488502 #dance #movement #movingconnections #kaejaddance #onlineworkshop #danceworkshop #moveandconnect #contemporarydance #dancepractice #onlinedance #alonetogether #onlinecommunity #freeworkshop #movementpractice #torontodance #newhorizons #alonetogather #todances

Wishing all a peaceful holiday Kaeja pandemic driven dance art 2020

Join us for the online streaming of Mary-Louise Albert Solo Dances: Past into Present presented by The Dance Centre. Streaming is available NOW until December 17th. Tickets and info in the link below. https://thedancecentre.ca//mary-louise-albert-/2020-12-03/... The beautifully filmed online performance at The Dance Centre features exquisite dancers Livona Ellis, Vanessa Goodman and Rebecca Margolick in choreography by leading senior Canadian artists Peter Bingham, Tedd Robinson, and Allen Kaeja as well as the Phase 1 of a new work for Mary-Louise Albert by Serge Bennathan as Albert heads into her 65th year and next journey as a senior citizen. Please celebrate the artists in this project and The Dance Centre. There are many ways to support dance, with the most fun way being watching it! Our live shows had to be cancelled as per Public Health, but we still filmed and so want to share it. Enjoy!

To be safe in our skin, livestream from the Bentway is up now at https://www.safeinpublicspace.com/kaeja An immediate, single rehearsal and structured score by both dance artists and camera, reflected: images, prose and raw live-streaming footage revealing worlds of texture, skin and the raw environment."

Beautiful review of Mary-Louise Albert's Solo Dances/ Past Into Present. Congratulations Allen Kaeja!

Huge congratulations to two female dance mavens Crystal Pite and Elizabeth Langley on being named a Member of the Order of Canada. Incredibly inspiring humans.

MOVING CONNECTION UPDATES! -ZOOM SHARING -OUTDOOR PRACTICE OPPORTUNITY For more info, head over to our website! www.kaeja.org/movingconnections... Karen Kaeja

This Wednesday, October 28 at 5pm EST we begin the second cycle of the Moving Connections workshops, starting again with Learning Lab 1. Open to all people, ages, bodies, and abilities - No dance experience required. Head over to http://www.kaeja.org/movingconnections for more info and to sign up for FREE! We are looking forward to seeing you there! A note for the final Practice Lab, Friday Nov 6th at 5pm EST: We are excited to announce that we will be recording our last... workshop of the Fall Session for Moving Connections. It will be shared on our social media platforms. If you haven’t been able to make it to a Learning Lab yet, now is your chance. If you have already participated in a Learning Lab, we invite you to return to deepen your connection with the movement as you become more familiar with the sequence. As always, for those who do not wish to have your image shared publicly, we welcome participants to keep their videos turned off. We hope this recording of the beautiful connections that we have all been moved by, can bring light to a moment in the pandemic and be shared with friends and families.

Introducing this Wednesday’s Moving Connections Online Facilitator - Katherine Semchuk! We want to thank Katherine for her beautiful, generous, and poetic teaching of the Moving Connections sequence. We are so grateful to have her on our team! Katherine is a dance-based collaborator, performer and instructor currently based in Toronto. Originally from Edmonton, AB, she attended Victoria School of the Arts and went on to graduate from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Kathe...rine has worked in both Toronto and Alberta with Good Women Dance Collective (GWDC), Kaeja D’dance, Kylie Thompson Dance, Meghann Michalsky, Mile Zero Dance, Nostos Collectives, Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Sasha Ivanochko, and Naishi Wang. Her teaching endeavours have taken her into studios, company classes and high school programs across the country where she has had the pleasure of leading workshops, choreographic processes and professional development for both dancers and educators. See more

Yesterday was our first Practice Lab with all 32 gestures sequenced together! Remember, you can join the workshop series at any time. We start the cycle again (2 Wednesday Learning Labs - Part 1 and 2, plus a Friday Practice Lab) on Wednesday October 28 at 5pm EST. Your guiding light teachers are Katherine Semchuk this Wednesday and Mio sakomoto after that. Open to all people, ages, bodies, and abilities - No dance experience required. Head over to http://www.kaeja.org/movingconnections for more info and to sign up for FREE!

Introducing our first ever Moving Connections Online Facilitator - Elke Schroeder ! We want to thank Elke for her fabulous, gentle and fierce teaching of the Moving Connections sequence. We are so grateful to have her on our team! Elke Schroeder is a Toronto-based dance artist. A graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre in 2005, she has worked with Lucy Rupert /Blue Ceiling Dance Alias Dance Project, TILT Sound + Motion, Frog in Hand, and with choreographers Jenn Goo...dwin, Amanda Acorn, Susie Burpee and Andrea Nann (among others). Currently she is creating solo works for her company One Animal, just finished a creation for L'École de Danse de Québec, and is in a new creation by Karen Kaeja. Elke’s diverse movement background includes dance of many styles, floorwork, acrobatics, yoga, functional movement and martial arts. Her greatest influence is the Fighting Monkey Practice, created by Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea (RootlessRoot). A close student of Jozef and Linda, Elke is a designated FM instructor. In addition, she owes much credit to her other main teachers: David Zambrano, Iñaki Azpillaga and Peter Jasko. A passionate teacher, Elke has taught for organizations such as Spirit Loft (Toronto), Toronto Dance Community Love-in, L’Artère Danse, L'École de Danse de Québec, The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, the University of Calgary, Ryerson Unversity, Jane Clapp/Movement for Trauma, GMD (Toronto) and YMI Dancers (Toronto).

today at 5pm, roll through the moving connections phrase with us. 1st time, 3rd time, anytime. the amazing Katherine Semchuk will guide you though a wonderful half hour online sending you off to your weekend.

Our first online Practice Lab for Moving Connections will happen tomorrow, Friday October 23rd at 5pm EST! Sign up for FREE at www.kaeja.org/movingconnections Open to people of all ages, bodies, and abilities- No dance experience required. See you there!

We are so grateful for all of the incredible movers that attended Moving Connections today! Remember you can join the workshop series at any time. Next workshop is our Practice Lab this Friday October 23rd at 5pm EST. Open to all people, ages, bodies, and abilities - No dance experience required. Head over to www.kaeja.org/movingconnections for more information and to sign up for FREE! Karen Kaeja