August 8, 10am-1:30pm
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August 8, 10am-1:30pm 〰️
creative process fundraiser workshop
Saturday, August 8, 10am-1:30pm
Location: The Railpath Arts Centre
10 min walk from Dundas Station
~ Join choreographer Kylie Thompson for a creative process workshop, in partnership with
bigBITE collective is a Toronto-based contemporary dance collective founded by emerging artists Teagan Ariss, Sadie Cahill, and Maya Santos O'Keefe
The workshop's purpose is to foster community outreach and exchange creative process insight. And raise funds to support the creative process! Your funds will help pay the extraordinary collaborative team.
Byte Your Tongue is a solo work choreographed and performed by Kylie Thompson; with a soundtrack designed by Stephen Joffe; consisting of sound bytes of women's voices. Grace Sun will also collaborate on the projection design. The intention is to celebrate, observe, learn and uplift.
Within the workshop, participants will:
- engage in the creative process with Kylie; including warm up, improvisation, journal prompting and creating phrasework
- engage in large and small group discussions around creative process
- learn phrasework from Byte Your Tongue
The workshop is geared towards pre and professional dance artists.
This is a fundraiser! Fees are on a sliding scale, from $35-$65. Thank you for supporting the creative process!
15 spaces available**
Can’t make it but want to support? Sponsor a participant! Simply choose your support level below and send an email to let me know you’d like to sponsor a participant. thank you!
Kylie Thompson
Kylie Thompson (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary performer, creator and educator residing in Toronto, Ontario (Treaty 13 territory). She considers herself an ally to the BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ communities and is committed to ongoing education, conversation and action towards equality and decolonisation of Western Dance practices. She believes that dance is simply movement language; and holds a unique perspective in the dance industry as she continues to train in street dance forms as well as contemporary theatre/ballet based techniques. She has a wealth of experience in both contemporary spaces as well as the commercial industry; some of her credits include Dance:Made in Canada, TIFF, DanceWorks, Barenaked Ladies, Kiesza, and more. She has been teaching floorwork and partnering to professional level students for 5 years. She has trained in the US, Austria and Italy with such companies as Alias Dance Project, Gadfly, Ultima Vez and Vim Vigor. She has been hosting various sizes and lengths of professional workshops in Tkaronto since 2017. She is so grateful for community and is ecstatic to be offering another event in this beautiful city.