Magpie Festival Class | Gerry Morita | Contact Improvisation

The Magpie Collection A Dance Festival class featuring Gerry Morita | Contact Improvisation

Monday, July 13
7-8:30 PM
Festival classes will all take place at Sugar Swing Studio located at 10019 80 Ave NW (approx a 5 minute walk from MZD!).

$15 for single classes
participating festival artists attend classes for free

ABOUT THE CLASS
This class explores techniques and styles of moving alone, in duets, or in the group using weight, floorwork, and play. Note: this class involves touch. Kneepads and long clothing are recommended

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Originally from rural Saskatchewan, Gerry Morita (BA Dance/ MFA Theatre. She has lived and worked in Vancouver, Montréal, and Tokyo as a dancer, choreographer, performance artist and teacher before moving to Edmonton and becoming Mile Zero Dance’s Artistic Director in 2006. Her work has toured Poland, Turkey, Estonia, Canada, and Japan.  

Morita’s body of work involves continuous inquiry into new ways of seeing movement, the body, and the spaces between us. She studies and teaches contact improvisation, Noguchi Taiso and other somatic-based and improvising techniques, working with artists from all disciplines in a vast array of both conventional and site-specific venues. She has received the Mayor’s Award for Innovation in Artistic Direction, the Edmonton Salute for Excellence, Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund and was one of Alberta’s 25 Influential Artists recognized in 2016.