Workshop - Creating Choreography From Text

This workshop is the second installment of our two-part series on creating choreography.

In this workshop we will focus on creative gesture and the process of finding your authentic voice as a dancer within your work. Oftentimes, we can get caught up in expressing the meanings of songs, or sticking to the drum beat and lose sight of what we are trying to say as an artist.

This workshop will give you the tools you need to support your artistic voice through the dance movements you already possess. Through traditional Egyptian acting techniques combined with Physical Gesture this workshop will provide dancers a new method to approach their dance creation.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

As a belly dancer, Chelsey is focused on teaching the influential styles of Egypt in their original forms. A dancer with over 10 years’ experience, she is the youngest graduate of the A-Z program under the study of Keti Sharif in Cairo, Egypt in 2008. She has been performing for Arabic weddings, parties and within the South Asian communities of Ontario for five years before moving to Calgary. Chelsey is a previous WAMED workshop instructor and has traveled through Canada, Australia and the Middle East, and has spent the past seven years directing and producing theatre and Middle Eastern dance in Calgary, Alberta. Chelsey holds a wealth of experience studying with some of the best and most famous dance instructors of the Middle East, and recently produced the Bellydance Circus show INANNA which will be touring Europe in 2023. Chelsey has her MFA in directing from the University of Ottawa and is the General Manager of the Ottawa Fringe Festival.

ABOUT THE VOICES DANCE PROJECT

The Voices Dance Project (VDP) is a non-profit project that puts dancers at the heart of artistic creation in a collaborative, supportive, and accessible environment.

VDP aims to give part-time, hobbyist or “amateur” dancers a space to explore choreography and expression. The project supports dancers looking to workshop choreographic projects and create opportunities for them to train and perform on stage or in multimedia productions. The project specifically aims to provide an alternative creative space for amateur dancers trained in ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, indigenous dance styles and traditional dance styles from around the world.

Through these performances, Voices hopes that artists will be able to develop experience, connect with artists from a variety of backgrounds, and discover new ways of expressing themselves.

Interested in joining the project? Visit www.voicesdance.ca

Host or Publisher Voices Dance Project