MZD Workshop with James Gnam
Join us for a special guest artist workshop with James Gnam, held in conjunction with MZD’s presentation of ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP.
WORKSHOP
Saturday, March 9
12-1:30 PM
$15 drop-in
Mile Zero Dance, 9931 78 Ave NW, Edmonton
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Our time together will unfold through a series of directed improvisations that explore how we feel and how we remember. Individually, we will consider how we want to be in our bodies, how we want to reach and fall and play with gravity. With a partner, we will play with seeing and being seen and consider how this relationship shapes some of the choices we make as we build and compose dances shaped out of our desires. We will listen to music quietly. We’ll tell stories and practice listening. We’ll do absolutely nothing. We’ll play with remembering and composing with found things. At some point, we will also listen to music very loud.
Photo credit | Dominique Skoltz
Instructor
James Gnam
James Gnam (he/him) is a dance artist based in Vancouver and Montreal. He is the artistic director of plastic orchid factory, a founding member of Left of Main, as well as an associate artist with MAYDAY and Grand Poney. He trained at the National Ballet School of Canada and from 1998 to the present, has performed in the works of Crystal Pite, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris, Jiri Kylian, Barak Marshall and collaborated in the creation of new work with Lee Su-Feh, Jacques Poulin-Denis, Melanie Demers, Vanessa Goodman, Evann Siebens, Peter Bingham and Tedd Robinson. With plastic orchid, James collaboratively devises interdisciplinary work that focuses the body as a site of social commentary. James’ research and performance have been supported by Opera Estate in Bassano Italy; Circuit-Est in Montreal; Centre Q and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa; Electric Company Theatre, The New Forms Festival, The Vancouver Art gallery, The Burrard Arts Foundation/Facade Festival, The Belkin Gallery and SFU/W in Vancouver. In 2010, the late Lola Maclaughlin nominated James and his wife Natalie for the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for Dance.