people dancing together: movement improv night | Wed Jan 22 | 7pm-8:30pm

PEOPLE

Mary Catherine Jack is an Ottawa based independant dance artist. She is passionate about movement and takes great joy in sharing this passion with others. She divides her career between teaching, creating and performing. Her current artistic exploration involves ideas around ecology, stewardship and reciprocity.

Franny Nudelman is a Professor in the English Department and the Institute for the Study of Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University, where she teaches courses in US culture with a focus on militarism, social movements, and crisis documentary. She is the author, most recently, of Fighting Sleep: The War for the Mind and the US Military (Verso Books), and her writing on sleep, trauma and war resistance has appeared in Literary Hub, BBC Science Focus, Process: A Blog for American History. She is currently writing a book about wood-based art and wartime ecocide.

Jocelyn Todd (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, multi-disciplinary artist, arts administrator, dance teacher, student, restaurant worker and, previously, festival producer currently working in so-called Ottawa.

Pierre‑Luc Clément is a multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, director and conceptual artist. A founding member of the experimental music group FET.NAT, he is actively involved in the region’s artistic and community scene.

ACCESS

This workshop will be led in English.

We will be guided to move and dance or experience stillness - everything is optional and options will be given.

Arts Court has accessible entry-points, the workshop will be held in a physically accessible studio and there is an accessible washroom near the entrance to Ottawa Dance Directive on the second floor.

Host or Publisher Ottawa Dance Directive