This dance workshop is open to all levels of experience - come as a stand-alone session or join as part of the Ottawa CI Mini-Festival: Through the Looking Glass, offered by the wonderful dance artist, teacher, and psychotherapist Laurinda Cheng.
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Meet outside the National Gallery of Canada, 9am-12pm.
FREE of CHARGE
* (participants responsible for paying entrance fee to the National Gallery of Canada)
The workshop involves enacting a dance score called:
“The EarthWorm with a Crown"
We will gather underneath “Maman” on Sunday morning, at 9am. Emerging from beneath Her skirts and deploying in and around the grounds of the National Gallery of Canada, we will enact a score that contemplates the distance and proximity between our ideals and the ground underfoot…as we dance our relation with and as nature in all its emanations: the first and final dance partner.
Maman is a large stainless steel, bronze, and marble sculpture of a spider, situated outside the National Gallery of Canada – the work of Louise Bourgeois. Across the street, up above, a bronze figure of the Virgin Mary surveils Maman and Her domain, from her perch atop the Notre-Dame Cathedral.
We will place our feet on the bare earth, crushing worm holes, inevitably. Our hands may grip hard rock, which may be warm or wet, depending on the sky's mood.
We will let the simplicity of earth fill us and move us, as we contemplate the spectrum from dirt to stardust. After dancing outside for some time, we will take our exploration indoors, into the National Gallery, where we will open ourselves to the influence of the human creations displayed therein—translating line, colour, shape, form into small dances that change, maybe, our vision of the possible.
Dress for the weather - sunscreen, rain coats, hazmat suit, lightning rod, what have you. We will proceed in all weather.
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