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Some photos from from the sharing evening of guest artist Sole Medina after her week in residency exchange with us.

A cortical homunculus is a physical representation of the human body, located within the brain. A cortical homunculus is a neurological "map" of the anatomical divisions of the body. There are two types of cortical homunculi: sensory and motor.

Guest: Tannis Hugill

You can follow her work and upcoming workshops here: www.awakeningbodywisdom.com

Resources shared in the workshop:

#tannis hugill #DTP

Guest: Lisa Prentice

You can get in touch with Lisa here: https://www.facebook.com/lisaprenticecst/ Here are some text resources for a few of the concepts shared in the workshop: Linda Hartman, Wisdom of the Body MovingShou Yu Liang, Qigong EmpowermentMartha Eddy, Mindful Movement,The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action

#lisa prentice #dtp

From September to November 2016, a weekly group of young children and their adults met to play together and be creative. Facilitated by Mirae Rosner, the group explored expression through movement, sound, drama and sensory play with materials and props. The group wasn’t a class, more like a creative exploration lab. Each week was slightly different, yet followed a predictable routine. Over the weeks, a friendly group formed in which we connected by watching, listening, copying, and also acknowledging that we are all different in how we engage with the world. Over and over, we explored the basic idea that there is no right or wrong way to play with something or be creative. As much a social space as a creative one, everyone who came contributed to a sense of warmth and welcoming in the room. In October, our group participated in the Between A and B project, showing a group drawing as part of the final exhibit aboard the SiteFactory school bus gallery. Thank you to everyone who attended Creative Playground! Thank you to Leah Weinstein (SiteFactory), Emiko Morita and prOphecy sun (Dance Troupe Practice, and Peggy Leung for assisting with the class each week. Photos by Carla Mugleston and Reese Muntean.

#kids creative #dance troupe practice #mirae rosner #bigdrawvan #creative playground #vancouverparks

Thanks to everyone who danced, drew, photographed and mapped during Between A and B (Vancouver Big Draw, Oct 1-22, 2016). This selection of photos from The Photo Club, Creative Playground, and Sonic Playground workshops, plus SiteFactory closing exhibition. Courtesy of photographers Reese Muntean, Carl Mugleston and Emiko Morita. Hosted by artists Emiko Morita, prOphecy Sun, Mirae Rosner and Juli Reese. In collaboration with Leah Weinstein and SiteFactory. Supported by the Vancouver Parks Board.

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2017 weekend workshops at Templeton Pool, Activity Room (700 Templeton Drive)

Workshop are open to 'friends of DTP' and members. Pre-registration is required and a sliding scale fee of $5-20 is to be paid upon arrival. To register please email: [email protected] -- Attn: Zoe/ guest artist series

Join us starting on Oct 1 at Pandora Park, for Between A and B at the Vancouver Big Draw.

Between A and B Vancouver Big Draw Free Community Workshops Oct 1 - 22, Pandora Park Fieldhouse (2325 Franklin St)

How do you get from A to B? What happens along the way? Join Dance Troupe Practice and SiteFactory for free, all ages workshops exploring mapping, photography, sound, and drawing. Learn, share, and interact with Fieldhouse artists and with each other, and make art works to display at a final exhibition in the SiteFactory school bus. With Artists Mirae Rosner, Emiko Morita, prOphecy sun, and Leah Weinstein. For more info about the Big Draw Festival: http://www.drawvancouver.com/

Sound Mapping Tours & Collective Drawing, Vancouver Big Draw opening event Sat October 1, 10AM-4PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse Mapping Connections through Photography, with Emiko Morita and the Photo Club Project Mon Oct 3, 2-3:30PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse Sonic Playground, Sound Workshop with prOphecy sun Sat October 8, 12-3PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse Creative Playground, Creative playgroup for kids (0-4) and parent or caregiver, with Mirae Rosner Weds Oct 5, 12, 19, 10:30-11:30AM, Templeton Pool Activity Room (700 Templeton Drive) Closing Exhibit aboard SiteFactory, Community art show inside a school bus gallery Sat Oct 22 , 11AM-1 PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse

All events are free, drop-in and do not require prior experience. For workshop details, please visit http://dancetroupepractice-fieldhouse.tumblr.com/events

(mini) DTP

On Mondays, a group of us children and adults have been meeting to creatively play together. It’s not a class and there is no expectation that we produce a final artwork. Rather, we simply come together to see what will happen each week. Usually, our time follows a predictable pattern - arrival, activity, and grounding. We say hello to each other and the whole room, take turns leading and following each other, play with some objects or props, build a house, make a drawing and then most importantly, share a snack.

At each stage, the goal is to find ways to be together following the rhythms of our play, welcoming joyful satisfaction and honoring the ways we relate to each other. Often our relationships become the very substance of our activities as we play with seeing and being seen, running away and towards each other, in other words - variations on peekaboo and hide and seek. We also ride on mats, build a fort with them, climb on the bench, make funny faces in the mirror, knock on all the doors, wear hats, become animals, run in circles, sing songs, and practice pretty much all of our dance moves.

Each week, I bring in different prompts and props, looking for things that will stimulate our emergent creative expression - in other words, things that we can play with in an open-ended way, and activities that we can make up as we go along. I find myself echoing one of my teachers often “Let’s see what happens” - and we do! Everything becomes part of the improvisation of our meeting.

And if you’re wondering if this is an exhausting chaos and screaming thunderstorm - the wonderful thing is, that once we really follow the energetic and exciting part, the group finds a way to settle. And from the beginning the social is emphasized, as I invite the group to greet each other, investigate the room, and mirror each other, bringing in attunement, mirroring, and empathy. With this social tendency invoked, it seems that a basis is provided for the group to regulate itself, more or less. Sometimes this needs a little help.

It’s an exercise in adjusting expectations. I need to find a way to introduce only just enough, not too much or too little. In this way, we play together and it’s both simple and complex. As I was working on a way to end this little post, one of the toddlers in question decided to join me at the keyboard, so I’ll let her sum things up:

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- Mirae

Blast from the Past! A fourth installment of photos from DTP’s history.

These pics feature: Unlearning Weekenders, Zoe Krye & Catherine Grau, 2013

Scores from Practice

In January and February, we practiced together and shared a number of movement scores - different recipes to investigate balance, falling, walking and touch. They were generated based on our different dance and somatic influences, and mixed with our inventiveness as a group.

Balance

three people support one person, walking in straight line across the room, person being supported can test their balance however they like, people supporting provide steady limbs and walk in the same pace as the balancer

Walk and fall

cross the room from one end to the other, begin standing and end lying on the floor, find a way to spread-out falling across this distance, progressively get lower and lower till reach the end, reverse from lying to standing, move back across the room to where you began

Touch/Move

this score is a circuit and as one role is completed, the next role is assumed. person a becomes person b becomes person c etc … person a - offers touch to person b, person b - receives touch from a, person c - crosses room, moving with the touch as inspiration, person d - receives the mover, and based on their movements, offers touch, person e - cross room, moving, to complete circuit and get ready to become person a

Falling Sand Sculpture

(based on experiential play with kinetic sand) person a - the sand - is sculpted and once a shape is implied, begins to slowly dissolve towards the ground, person b - the sculptor - takes the weight of the sand’s limbs and hangs them in space, sculpting and responding to the shifting movements of person a

Gym mat body work

roll up person a in gym mat, with their head and arms sticking out, tap the mat, brush the mat, press into the mat, unroll the person; 2 people take either end of the mat and rock the person side to side, at a speed they like, invite the person to lay lengthwise on the mat and drag them around the room

Walking intervention

part 1

person a - walks continuously, person b - connects their hand to person a’s sacrum to align their walks, and then releases hand and follows person a to learn to walk like them, person a - steps aside to watch person b walk like them

part 2

person a - walks continuously, person b - offers touch to person a, person a - responds to touch while walking, allowing shifts and changes in body posture, rhythm, gate, direction.

We're in the Hastings Community Centre Program Guide. Check-out page 25.

March 6 Open Practice

DTP Monthly Session - All Bodies Welcome!

Dance Troupe Practice (DTP) is now hosting monthly public practices that you are welcome to try for free. If you were ever curious about DTP or just want to move your body - now is your chance. NO experience is necessary + ALL bodies are welcome.

NEXT SESSION: 5-7 pm, Sunday March 6 / the first Sunday of every month. Please arrive on time and wear comfortable clothes to move in.

Where: Templeton Community Centre - in the Activity Room, directly to the left of the entrance. 700 Templeton Drive, Hastings Sunrise, Vancouver.

Want more details? Here is a recent blog post describing what we've been working on lately.

#contemporary dance #dance troupe practice #community dance #all bodies

Blast from the past! The third in a series of posts featuring Dance Troupe collaborations over the years.

Pictured above: prOphecy sun and Ariana Barer, Squarewaves Festival 2011; Push and Pull, prOphecy sun and Luciana D'Anunciação, 2011; Memelab Salon, Dance Troupe Practice, 2010; Push and Pull, prOphecy sun and Luciana D'Anunciação, Squarewaves Festival, 2010; Umbrella Piece, Luciana D'Anunciação, prOphecy sun, Ariana Barer, VIVO, 2012.

#contemporary dance #dance troupe practice #collaboration #communitydance #interdisciplinary

Blast from the past! The second in a series of posts featuring Dance Troupe collaborations over the years.

Pictured above: Car Experiments, 2012; Covering Up Performance, Heidi Nagtegaal, prOphecy sun, Vanessa Brown, Jenny Mqueen, Live Performance Art Biennial, 2010; Headlamps with Under the Sun, SIX Fest, 2012; Strings, Robert Leveroos, SIX Fest, 2012

#dance troupe practice #contemporary dance #communitydance #site specific

Blast from the past! The first in a series of posts featuring Dance Troupe collaborations over the years.

Pictured above: Quilt of Mirrors, prOphecy sun & Aja Rose Bond, 2009; Hairy Lumps: An Inter-dimensional Allegory, The Cycling Club and Dance Troupe Practice, 2007; The Bath Sessions, prOphecy Sun and Jeanette Ageson, 2010

Photos from Future Smuggler, Written & Directed by Jenny Lee Craig, performed by Kristoff Stein, Luey Mcquaid, Heidi Nagtegaal, Caitlin Osbourne, Zoe Kreye, Shelby Stocks, Lorraine Greives, Cole Devoy, Amanda Louise and Jenny Lee Craig. Music by Die Holle. Set-Dec by Lisa Wilson. Costumes by Danielle Gotell. Shown at Templeton Pool on December 5th & 6th .

#synchronizedswimming, #water, #communityart, #communitytheatre

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