Alanna Kraaijeveld

Dance
Specialities: Improvisation, Sculpture

Contact Info

Phone Number
Resides in
English Montreal

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Experience working with

  • Cycle 1 Elementary
  • Cycle 2 Elementary
  • Cycle 3 Elementary
  • Secondary 1 & 2
  • Secondary 3 & 4
  • Secondary 5
  • CEGEP

I regularly explore the following Broad Areas of Learning/Themes in my work

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Citizenship and Community Life (Identity & Belonging)
  • STEAM

Listed in the Quebec Culture in the Schools Repertoire

  • No

I can facilitate virtual creative experiences

  • No

Travel

  • I am available for travel within the same day
  • I am available for travel overnight
  • An extended residency is an option
Movement modality Fighting Monkey (FM) and play nurture an approach to dance that encourages creativity, adaptability, and joy. I invite students to meet, move, and dance with something outside of themselves — object, material, form, image, context, another person. This work is suitable for a spectrum of age and ability. My 20 years of experience working in contemporary dance support a curiosity for collaboration, communication and process.

Creative Approach and Experiences Offered

1) Dance Workshop - dry materials:
I invite participants to meet, move, and dance with something outside of themselves — object, material, form, image, context, another person — through task based dances. Frameworks for dancing are defined by:
a) Dances with objects (FM practice ball, martial arts belt, wood blocks, balloons, etc.), explored individually, with a partner or partners
b) Qualitative or image based improvisations, explored individually
c) Point-of-connection based dances, explored in contact with a partner

2) Dance and sculpting Workshop - wet materials:
I invite participants to engage in various dances, tasks, drills and relationships to (wet) clay.
Frameworks for dancing are defined by:
a) actions, ex. hug, punch, throw, balance, catch
b) initiations with specific body parts, ex. fingers, elbows, feet
A portion of this workshop is devoted to creating a sculpture with clay, using the whole body to sculpt it.


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Video: Kes Tagney
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