Mile Zero Dance presents: Interactive Symposium with Thea Patterson and Jeremy Gordaneer as part of the Rewriting Distance Residency Monday August 19, 9 am-6 pm University of Alberta/Timms Rehearsal Hall Free Featuring speaker and performers: Cindy Baker Guy Cools Tyson Frencheater and Camille Renarhd Rebecca John Xavia Publius _______________________________ Ecologies
Mile Zero Dance (MZD) presents: Rewriting Distance Performances of Rewriting Distance August 21, 22, 23 at 8 pm August 24 matinée at 2 pm Mile Zero Dance 10816 – 95 Street, Edmonton AB, T5H 2E3 $15 MZD members $20 non-members What is Rewriting Distance? Rewriting Distance is a performance/workshop practice,
What is Rewriting Distance? Rewriting Distance is a performance/workshop practice, created by Lin Snelling and Guy Cools with photographer Michael Reinhart that allows participants to tell stories, dance, and write. History | Rewriting Distance received a SSHRC Dissemination Grant and in 2012/13 and toured to Limerick and Dublin in Ireland,
This season, Mile Zero Dance (MZD) is harnessing the power and creativity of the human body in the fight against climate change. Virtuoso Japanese dancer and choreographer, Mari Osanai, will open our Dance Crush series with her body-mind movement piece Oblivion. Osanai’s post-butoh dance transforms space and time in a
MZD MOVEMENT INTENSIVES Accessible movement workshops taught by world-renowned instructors. For beginners and professional dancers. FALL October 27-30 | Sunday 11am -4pm, Monday-Wednesday 10am – 1pm Noguchi Taiso Workshop with Mari Osanai $175 for all four classes or $50/day Mari Osanai will be traveling from Japan to perform and teach at
Running Piece from Montreal’s Jacques Poulin-Denis AKA Grand Poney is a bold work for dancer and treadmill. On this confined yet infinite space, a man travels without leaving, constantly forced to go forward. He moves through the situations and moments that define us. On the path of humanity and civilization,
WINTER Movement Workshop December 9-13 | 10 am- 12:30 pm $175 for all four classes or $50/day “Memoir and Movement- Building material towards performance.” with Sara Porter Each class, Sara guides participants through a variety of improvisational movement work to warm up the body and awaken the senses. Followed by creative
DANCE CRUSH SARA DOES A SOLO SARA PORTER (TORONTO) DECEMBER 13 & 14 | 8 P.M. $15 MEMBERS $20 NON MEMBERS three decades as a dancer and a writer, Sara Porter stands at the collision of the two in her multi-disciplinary work Sara does a Solo. Turning her writing on
Our favourite Gaga instructor, James Viveiros is back in December offering three days of classes. Gaga Dancers; Friday December 20th from 10:00 am - 11:15 am Saturday December 21 from 12:00pm - 1:15 pm Gaga People Sunday December 22 from 12:00pm- 1:15 pm $30 per drop in | Available online
Mile Zero Dance welcomes Rosanna Terracciano to Edmonton for a solo performance as part of our Dance Crush Series. See the recent writeup in the Edmonton Journal (Feb. 11) PLACE/Is a city written on this body? is a solo trilogy of cities — Napoli, Calgary, Madrid/Sevilla/Barcelona. It explores each city’s
Part of The Female Gaze, our celebration of women in film! Cunningham traces Merce’s artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery (1944–1972), from his early years as a struggling dancer in postwar New York to his emergence as one of the world’s most visionary choreographers. The 3D technology
March 6-8 Friday 7 pm – 10 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am – 5:30 pm $175 for all three classes $50/ for Friday $75 each day for Saturday and Sunday Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood has been dedicated to improvisation as a performing art for nearly 40 years and is
Come celebrate International Dance Day with Mile Zero Dance! Dance Blitz is an event that exalts the short dance piece. Originally the event was planned as a live event in Edmonton’s historic Chez Pierre Cabaret. In spite of the mass self-isolation happening across the world, dancers will continue to perform
Actors, dancers, writers, artists and creative folk of all variety welcome! All levels of experience welcome. About this Event DEVISING DIGITAL PERFORMANCE Taught by Ben Gorodetsky Thursday August 13th | 6-8:30 PM Mountain Time On Zoom By donation This 2.5 hour, practical workshop will explore tools for creating digital performance
photo Joanne Gervais IN LIEU: Ben Gorodetsky & Larissa Poho August 15th | 7:00 PM Mountain Time On Zoom Free, or Pay What You Will In lieu of their cancelled dance-theatre performance Biblioteka (march 2020) at Mile Zero Dance, Ben Gorodetsky and Larissa Poho present IN LIEU. FEATURING: Dolik's Clothes - 12
The Spine Folds, Far Away, reimagines the body as a multitudinous structure of strange matter and alien organisms: a vessel in constant transformation always on the brink of collapse. It attempts to situate the human experience in terms of its relation to dreams, sensation, and the cosmos, using space and