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FESTIVAL PIE - CONTACT IMPROVISATION AND ALTERNATIVE DANCE

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Pie festival is for dancers and non dancers who want to deepen their research and their personal practice. You will have the opportunity to spend four days within a unique kinesthetic.

Come meet our Montreal community of teachers who specialize their practice in contact improvisation and it’s relative forms of movement consciousness.

Cost : 4 days - 350 $ include : workshop, jams, food, accomodation

Accomodation:

  • At l’Auberge du lac carré in the Laurentians, north of Montreal
  • 2 people / room (with mattress) - bring a sleeping bag
  • Studio of 2000 square feet (wood floor)
  • Space for meditation outside
  • Lake for swimming close by

REGISTRATION

Phone at 514-961-3771 or email to piefestival@yahoo.com

50 $ deposit (non refundable) is required to confirm your registration.


TEACHERS

Eryn Dace Trudell : Skinner Releasing Technique - David Flewelling : Yoga
Stéphanie Gaudreau : Contact improvisation - Robert H. Schweitzer : Technique Alexander
Catherine Lessard : Contact improvisation

Clic to see the BIOGRAPHY OF PIE’S TEACHERS.


CLASSES

Skinner Releasing Technique : In SRT we cultivate letting
go of unnecessary holding in our physical selves. Through
guided imagery, music and hands-on partner studies the
practice facilitates a deep kinesthetic experience of
movement. It is an experiential, intuitive approach which
utilizes imagery as a powerful tool for transformation.
Alexander Technique : A re-education of our movement
patterns, allowing us to carry out our tasks with greater
freedom, comfort and poise. By maintaining fluid
relationship between head, neck and torso, practicing this
technique brings a quality of softness, listening, and
presence to our dance.

* Included in the workshop, Robert will give private lessons
during diner and lunch periods.
Flow Vinyasa Yoga : simply means a union of movement
and breath. We begin with a short meditation, followed by
a warm up, building to a more strenuous practice followed
by a warm-down and relaxation. The focus is to connect the
deep stretches to your breath.
CI - 1 The art of communication : Through a global
listening and an involvement of our centre, we will explore
the different qualities of the point of contact (dense, fluid,
light, organic, delicate, deep…) in order to refine and clarify
our intention in this art of communication.
CI - 2 Elements and practice : We will visit
contact-improvisation’s basis in slowness, and then we will
explore gradually taking more risks.
CI - 4 A kinesthetic dialogue with nature : Let us pass
through the doors of our senses to discover the intimacy
of our internal magic. With precise exercises taken from a
variety of somatic approaches we will use elements of the
natural environment in support of our CI exploration.
I - 3 Group Score : We will explore a group partition of
instant composition, in an atmosphere of movement
laboratory.

PROGRAM OF THE FESTIVAL

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L’AUBERGE DU LAC CARRÉE

Lac Carré Hostel is in the Laurentians, 110 km from Montréal, in
St-Faustin/Lac Carré between Saint-Agathe-des-Monts and
Mont-Tremblant.

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HOW TO GET THERE

Take the Laurentian Autoroute (15 North), then continue on Route 117.
Exit at St-Faustin/Lac Carré (about 17 km past Ste-Agathe). At the
stop sign (Caisse Populaire and Pétro-Canada), turn right towards Lac
Carré, and continue for 1.8 km. Right after Richelieu Market, (before
the bicycle path and the church), turn left on rue de Moulin
then drive along the lake for 300 m. When you get to the intersection,
turn left on Tour du Lac. Take the first right at rue St-Joseph, drive
up the hill, and you’ll see the hostel.

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