Being & Seeing In Solo with George Stamos
Dates:
June 10th - 14th
Days:
Monday - Friday
Times:
6:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Cost:
$175/all five days
Class Description:
This five-day workshop (two hours a day) offers an overview and practice of several strategies and methods for creating solo material, including somatic work, working with objects, compositional structures, rhythms, and gender play. The warm-up will activate participants' proprioception, tone and gaze before they practice exercises that generate personalized choreographic material. Each day, participants will be guided in the creation of short solo studies, developing observational skills and ways of talking about dance objectively and with precision. By the end of the week, each participant will have developed a three to five min solo that will be shared in an informal presentation as part of the Stream of Dance Festival.
Teacher Bio:
Montréal based queer artist George Stamos has been active in the professional contemporary dance world as a choreographer, dancer, and teacher since the mid-1990s. Originally from Nova Scotia Canada, George received his BFA (Dance) from The Amsterdam University of the Arts in 1993 and spent his formative years in the queer performance art and contemporary dance milieus of Toronto, London, Amsterdam and New York. More recently, in 2018 he completed the graduate diploma program at the Department of Communication Studies of Concordia University.
In both 2009 and 2017, George was invited to be a resident artist at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre in New York, and from 2012 to 2015 at Agora de la Danse in Montréal. George also received the much sought-after Northrop McKnight Fellowship for International Choreographers Award in 2014.
George’s choreography has received critical acclaim, including his most recent piece One Kind Favor that premiered in February 2020 at Montréal Arts Interculturel. As a dancer, he has worked with many pioneering Choreographers, most notably Benoit Lachambre, Sara Shelton Mann, and Zab Maboungou, and regularly performs in his own work.