Compagnie Katie Ward
Dance
Specialities: Creative writing, Storytelling
Contact Info
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Resides in
English Montreal
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Experience working with
Student In
- Cycle 3 Elementary
- Secondary 1 & 2
- Secondary 3 & 4
- Secondary 5
- CEGEP
- Senior Citizens
Lifelong Learners
- Adult Learners
I regularly explore the following Broad Areas of Learning/Themes in my work
- Health and Wellbeing
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
In my work, I draw from the inner world of the self, and an experience of change and flow from our connection to the world. I offer ways to embody this through dance and words (both spoken and written). This approach upholds Invention, imagination, empowerment, autonomy and self-determination in students.
I have worked with neurotypical and non-neuro typical school students and adults.
Disciplines: Choreography, dance, speaking and writing informed by sensation and imagery.
I have worked with neurotypical and non-neuro typical school students and adults.
Disciplines: Choreography, dance, speaking and writing informed by sensation and imagery.
Creative Approach and Experiences Offered
My dances disrupt the way we see our world so that we can re-imagine our relationship to it. I am fascinated by the relationship between imagination and the real - where our imagination guides our actions making them real, and how these real things influence our imagination.I prioritize collaboration and working from one’s own felt sense and inner world, in this way I advocate for listening to the self and to others. I teach a simple technique for accessing participant’s inner worlds to embody these through dance, gesture and spoken words. I work to create conditions for students to activate their own sense of invention, imagination and and Aha! moments.
Outcomes: students will produce short solo and group performances and small poems all stemming from listening to the self and others. To do this, I work with directions to guide action called scores that we will develop as a group.