Teacher: anti-cool (Japan)
Dates: March 21-25 2011 (5 days) • Mon-Fri, 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Studio 303
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)

We will go through a process in which participants can experience unexpected feelings and ways of thinking. Through various forms of interaction and communication, participants will be able to reflect and act upon the relationships between themselves as well as with their surroundings.

anti-cool is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance and installation art. She was born in Kanagawa, Japan and has been performing internationally since 2000. Her work has been presented at the Battersea Arts Center (London, UK), National Review of Live Art (Glasgow), International Performance Festival (Odense, Denmark), Plattform Raum fur Kunst (Vienna), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), CAFKA (Kitchener, Ontario) and Dare-Dare (Montreal).

For Emploi-Quebec subsidized workshops, please contact us for eligibility requirements.

We only accept cash or cheques.
You can either mail a cheque or come and pay at our office during business hours.

Reimbursement policy
- No reimbursement for the occasional missed class.
- Sickness/ injury: total reimbursement of missed classes, including the initial deposit if none of the classes has been followed.
- Scheduling conflict: partial reimbursement (non-applicable if there is a waiting list). We keep 20% of the total price as an administration fee.
- Planned absences: possibility of a special rate.
- Other situations: evaluated on a case per case basis.

Teacher: Sylvie Tourangeau
Dates: March 28-31 2011 (4 days) • Mon-Fri, 10am to 1:30pm
Location: Studio 303
Cost: $70 (Emploi-Québec)
Informal showing at the end of the workshop.

Sylvie Tourangeau’s pedagogy is rooted in presence practices initiated Meredith Monk’s right-hand man: Pablo Vela, in Osho’s dynamic meditation, in the authentic attitude favoured by the techniques of Jorge Luis Gioia Soma, in the deployment of an action in the here and now provided by BBB Johaness Deimling, Jean Dupuy, Esther Ferrer, in interrelationships between structure, body, and the subject advocated by Jean-Francois Pirson, and in some techniques of concentration and endurance from Butoh taught by Yumiko Yoshioka and Mario Veillette. Through a gradual learning, practical exercises, presentations with instructions, dynamic feedback, constructive comments, individual coaching in front of the group, and explanations of some basic concepts, participants experience the consciousness of the actual moment, the state of mind, the authentic presence, gesture channelling, and structuring performative actions.

Sylvie Tourangeau has been actively interested in performance art since 1978. She has been involved as a performer, an author and a workshop facilitor. She attempts to bring the powers of transformation into being and to transmit them through various forms of human presence such as integrity, intimacy, added value produced by the meeting of differences, social belonging and the envolving power of our perception of the present moment. Her performance art practice involves a certain amount of risk; such as modifying her actions at any given moment, testing her endurance in particular physical positions, sustaining a dialogue with an active spectator, etc. Although these risks may not be spectacular in nature they never fail to bring us back to the essential issues of direct communication.

For Emploi-Quebec subsidized workshops, please contact us for eligibility requirements.

We only accept cash or cheques.
You can either mail a cheque or come and pay at our office during business hours.

Reimbursement policy
- No reimbursement for the occasional missed class.
- Sickness/ injury: total reimbursement of missed classes, including the initial deposit if none of the classes has been followed.
- Scheduling conflict: partial reimbursement (non-applicable if there is a waiting list). We keep 20% of the total price as an administration fee.
- Planned absences: possibility of a special rate.
- Other situations: evaluated on a case per case basis.