It’s getting colder, which means it’s time to get cozy! Keep warm at the second Winters Café next Monday, October 29th. We’re offering warm beverages, sweet treats and board games. Plus, we’ll have live performances from your student peers. Interested in performing yourself? Sign up HERE!
Have a chat over delicious brunch-style foods with the Dean of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt. Brunch will be served from 12:00pm-2:00pm in the Junior Common Room (012) of Winters College on Thursday, November 15th 2018.
The Department of Dance Presents
dance innovations
Fierce – Powerful new works by the next generation of dance makers
Artistic Director Julia Sasso & Performance Course Director Freya Bjorg Olafson
Stage Manager York Dance alumna Kiera Shaw
PERFORMANCES Nov 21-23
Program A – 6:30 pm
Program B – 7:45 pm
Program C – 9pm
Admission:
$18 per program
($12 advance purchase until Sun. Nov. 18)
Box Office: 416. 736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
The Department of Dance Presents
dance innovations
Fierce – Powerful new works by the next generation of dance makers
Artistic Director Julia Sasso & Performance Course Director Freya Bjorg Olafson
Stage Manager York Dance alumna Kiera Shaw
PERFORMANCES Nov 21-23
Program A – 6:30 pm
Program B – 7:45 pm
Program C – 9pm
Admission:
$18 per program
($12 advance purchase until Sun. Nov. 18)
Box Office: 416. 736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
We are excited to bring you a new tradition to celebrate the end of a semester, and another year. The first ever “Winters Frolic” at Winters College, with a theme of “Havana Nights”! A formal dinner party event where Cuban-inspired dinner and drinks will be served along with exciting performances by both musicians and dancers. We will be raffling away fantastic prizes, with all proceeds going towards our Winters College student scholarships and funds. Follow us on Instagram: @WintersCollege for a sneak peek of the big day and the prizes we will be raffling off!
Come to the Absinthe Pub & Coffee Shop and get to know your Head of Winters College, John Mayberry, over some tasty nachos – on us! Enjoy an evening of nachos, trivia and good conversations.
We’re bringing Central Perk to you! Enjoy a tasty beverage, something sweet and a few performances at this semester’s first Winters Café.
Winters Café is a cozy environment where you can chill out and listen to a variety of performers: musicians, comedians, playwrights, poets – you name it! Board games and good fun is also encouraged.
Interested in performing? Sign up here!
York Dance Ensemble: abunDance
The Department of Dance Showcase
Featuring the York Dance Ensemble
Artistic Director: Susan Lee
abunDance -Delicious dances by seasoned artists
Admission: $18 | $12 advance purchase until Sunday, Feb. 12
Box Office: 416.736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
Photo by Craig Chambers. Dancer: Kezia Mullings (YDE 2015)
The Department of Dance presents the DIP – Dance Independent Project – Choreographing Indigeneity
Choreographing Indigeneity explores issues of identity and place through dance with faculty, alumni and graduate students. The event will showcase performances, exhibits and presentations featuring Aria Evans, Syreeta Hector, Troy Twigg and Dance Collection Danse.
Curator: Susan Cash
Production Manager: Jennifer Jimenez
Presentations: 10:00 -11:45 a.m., 2:15 – 4:00 p.m.
Open to the public: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: McLean Performance Studio, 244 Accolade East Building
Maps & Directions
Free Admission
The Department of Dance presents
Dance Innovations 2019 – the near distance – pathways towards discovery
Dance Innovations 2019 – the near distance – pathways towards discovery features the concise creations of 25 fourth year BFA choreographers performed by students engaged in all levels of York’s programs in Dance. Students and faculty involved in creation, performance, lighting design and production collaborate in the successful realization of Dance Innovations. Series A of the two series program comprises a new creation by Assistant Professor and intermedia artist Freya Björg Olafson for York’s third year Performance class. In harmony with the themes explored elsewhere in the Department’s 2019/20 events, performances and workshops – issues of identity, navigation and acknowledgment – our show title celebrates the certainty that curiosity, open ness and creative engagement lead to imminent and ongoing discovery and transformation.
Artistic Director: Julia Sasso for 4th year choreography course
Director: Freya Björg Olafson for 3rd year Performance course
Production Manager: Jennifer Jimenez
PERFORMANCES Nov 20-22
Series A – 7:00 pm
Series B – 8:30 pm
Admission:
Advanced tickets: $12
After November 20: $18
Box Office: 416. 736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
York Dance Ensemble: Language of Landscape (investigating movement, meaning and environment)
The Department of Dance Showcase
Featuring the York Dance Ensemble
Artistic Director: Susan Lee
CHOREOGRAPHY BY
Faculty member: Susan Lee
MFA candidates: Emilio Colaillo and Raine Kearns
York Alumna: Nina Milanovski
4th Year BFA student: Sophie Goyette- Hamels
February 12-14, 2020
Location: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre
Time: 7:30 PM
Admission: $18 | $12 advance purchase until Sunday, Feb. 9
Box Office: 416.736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
Belly Dance as Mindful Movement for Stress Reduction
This movement-based workshop utilizes belly dance vocabulary designed for self-soothing. Learn movements that support the reduction of stress and anxiety symptoms. Participants will leave with applications on how stress responses can be experiences on a spectrum from hyper-arousal (feelings of overstimulation) to hypo-arousal (feelings associated with low-energy or burnout). Belly dance used as mindfulness offers gentle wavey movement designed to down-regulate physical stress responses. This workshop also combines more energizing vocabulary through shimmying and shaking as well as core engagement to support up-regulation of the nervous system, based on internal rhythm and percussion.
About the Facilitator :
Shaila is completing her Masters in Dance at York University. She concurrently training as a Dance Movement Therapist through the National Centre for Dance Therapy in Montreal. Her work focuses on belly dance practices that use sensuality as a healing tool within dance interventions. Her movement offerings look at building resiliency, decoupling stress responses and promoting body positivity. Shaila provides a unique framework that maps belly dance vocabulary for nervous-system regulation. Shaila has been an active member of the Toronto belly dancing community for over a decade, both as a performer and instructor. She currently works as a Health Educator and Training Specialist and enjoys offering students training on mental health and well-being.
Hollywood Old and New: ReDesigns for Student Engagement in eLearning with Gillian Helfield & Dan Becker
Thursday, March 12
12:00 – 1:30 PM
AMPD Faculty Lounge (GCFA 214)
Free
RSVP
Join us for this lunchtime talk about the evolution of “Hollywood Old and New”, a fully online class that offers students an understanding of Hollywood film genres from a historical and social perspective. In this talk, the presenters will discuss their pedagogical strategies for the new course redesign to facilitate student engagement in a large format class. This course is offered by the Department Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design.
Gillian Helfield lectures at York University, in Cinema and Media Studies in AMPD, Humanities in LAPS, and Canadian Studies at Glendon College. Though she has specialized in Canadian and Quebec Cinemas, other areas of academic interest include Genre Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Cinema, National Cinemas, Diasporic and Exilic Cinemas, Middle Eastern Cinemas, and Rural Cinemas. In 2006, her book Representing the Rural: Space Place and Identity, in Films About the Land, was published by Wayne State University Press.
In collaboration with AMPD, Gillian has developed and redesigned two large-enrolment online film courses, which have earned recognition from international eLearning associations (IELA) and the Teaching Commons at York University (York’s nomination for the STLHE Brightspace /D2L Innovation Award). In 2017, she received the AMPD eLearning Teaching Award.
Dan Becker is the Educational Designer and Developer for the Faculty of Education. He works extensively with instructors to operationalize educational theory and current research within courses that utilize technology. Dan develops learning experiences that engage students, build communities of inquiry and employ meaningful assessment strategies, while avoiding excessive effort on the part of the instructor. His approach of simplicity and depth has produced a variety of courses that are enjoyed by instructors and students alike.
York Dances: Luminous Surroundings
Luminous Surroundings features exciting new choreography of 24 up-and-coming third year choreographers.
Artistic Director: Tracey Norman
Luminous Surroundings presents 24 original works in two 60-minute programs:
Dusk (Series A) – 7:00 pm
Dawn (Series B) – 8:30 pm
SERIES A
1) Katherine Romard – Reece Caldwell, Sydney Cobham, Emily Williams, Jadra Hannam
2 ) Jessica Vilneff – Blythe Russel, Jordan Gamble, Zoe Harrington
3) Alesha Bishop – Emma Gray Lamont, Sophie Goyette-Hamels, Emily Bernasiewicz, Cecilia Arva, Isabella French
4) Alyssa Passero – Alyssa Nunziato, Bridget D’Orsogna, Taylor Zeller
5) Paige deCastro – Zoe Harrington, Taylor Hooey, Olivia Burling, Blythe Russel, Derek Souvannavong
6) Madeline Feist – Ana Kapassaircs, Phoebe Herrington, Isabella Fortino, Kerry Halpin, Isabella French
7) Jasmine Almaguer Sheldrick – Reece Caldwell, Emily Williams
8) Jenna Begon – Kenyatta Brown, Sara Lopez, Jerry Bonkowski, Abbey Richens
9) Megan Millar – Olga Soukov, Rowan Labelle, Martina Levi, Hanna Pople
10) Isabella Fortino – Erica Coccia-Glowacki, Isabella Boaretto
11) Chantal Thibodeau – Daniel Souvannavong, Jessica Gindli, Leslie Woo, Talia Cooper, Emily Duckett, Jerry Bonkowski, Kerry Halpin
12) Jopang Simakajornboon – Alesha Bishop, Olivia Burling, Alyssa Passero
SERIES B
1) Alyssa Nunziato – Emily Weaver, Katherine Romard, Mackenzie Grantham, Allison Kingsbury, Emma Gray Lamont
2) Mackenzie Link – Isabella Boaretto, Celina Ferrar, Hollie Sargeant, Erica Coccia-Glowacki
3) Morgan Stasiewicz – Sophie Goyette-Hamels, Daniel Souvannavong, Bridget D’Orsogna
4) Jaymee Turner – Isabella Fortino, Talia Cooper, Emily Duckett, Mackenzie Grantham, Martina Levi
5) Jordan Gamble – Emma Gray Lamont, Abbey Richens
6) Derek Souvannavong – Jadra Hannam, Paige deCastro, Katherine Romard, Hannah Kimbell, Leslie Woo
7) Hannah Kimbell – Emily Weaver, Teagan Ariss, Sophie Goyette-Hamels, Eliza Pinney, Hannah Raymond, Kerry Halpin
8) Mikayla Alcombrack – Abbey Richens, Mackenzie Grantham, Phoebe Herrington
9) Bridget D’Orsogna – Jadra Hannam, Jasmine Almaguer Sheldrick
10) Teagan Ariss – Jenna Begon, Kenyatta Brown, Talia Cooper, Amy Williams
11) Carly MacDougall – Olivia Burling, Petra Bahlman, Emily Duckett
12) Allison Kingsbury – Reece Caldwell, Celina Ferrar, Hollie Sargeant
Admission is $10 for each program.
March 25 – 26, 2020
McLean Performance Studio (244 Accolade East Building)
The Department of Dance presents
Dance Innovations 2020: Detail and Distance –
Extraordinary works for extraordinary times.
Series A: Detail
November 25th at 7:00pm LINK
Features new choreographic works from fourth year students.
Series B: Distance
November 26th at 7:00pm LINK
Features new choreographic works from fourth year students.
Series C: Distant Measures
November 27th at 7:00pm LINK
Features third year performance students and the York Dance Ensemble.
Each series will premiere on their respective date shown above and will be available to watch on demand till Friday, December 11, 2020.
Artistic Director: Susan Lee
Course Director: Modesto Amegago
Guest Artist: Don Sinclair
Check out the promo reel for this event here.
