Embodied Movement and Imaginative Play

Did you miss your chance to lock in your spot for our Actor’s Gym? Well fret not, we have an a number of Drop-In Classes available including this incredible movement based one!

Come get a taste of the amazing curriculum we’ve put together. Featuring our incomparable guest artist/instructor hailing from Toronto, Shannon Litzenberger!

In this joyful, action-based, on-your-feet session, we will explore embodied practice, collaborative play, and improvisational movement strategies that support generative ensemble-based creation. We will discover ways of recognizing our default habits as members of an ensemble, and cultivate practices that help us expand into new, imaginative possibilities. Working on developing our capacity for collective sensory attunement, expanded attentional awareness, embodied imagination, non-verbal collaboration and embodied play will support our ability to generate creative possibility through relational action. 

For this workshop, please dress comfortably, bring a notebook, and come prepared to move. No movement experience is required and all abilities are welcome. For those unfamiliar with embodied movement practice, please note that this is not a dance workshop and you will not be asked to learn choreography. If you are someone who feels uncomfortable with the proposal of working with and through imaginative movement, rest assured that there will be several options available to make sure you can work at your own personal learning edge and threshold of comfort.

If you have any specific questions you’d like addressed in advance, please feel free to reach out to Shannon at shannonlitz@me.com  or Micah (Artistic Director of TACTICS) at micah@tacticsottawa.com

Meet your Instructor

Shannon Litzenberger is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, director, embodiment facilitator and experienced cultural leader working at the intersection of art, ideas and transformational change. She creates sensory-rich, multi-disciplinary performance experiences that animate our relationship to land, community, and the forgotten wisdom of the body. She has been an invited resident artist at Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Atlantic Ballet Theatre, Banff Centre, Remai Modern and Memorial University. She is also a frequent collaborator with the wind in the leaves collective. Her recent work World After Dark was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award. www.shannonlitzenberger.com