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Louise Michel Jackson

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Technique classes - Feline mobility and coral vibrations : Athletic games and somatic explorations at every scale

 

​​The first part will offer an "athletic" physical training combining fun games, physical tasks and structured improvisation exercises. The work will focus on: cardio, muscle strengthening, ground support work, quadrupedalism (weight distribution on 4 legs in dynamic movements) improving the power and motor functions of the shoulder girdle, efficiency and fluidity of inversions of the paths between heaven and earth (small acrobatics, hand balances) power movements, awareness of the center in accumulation of energy in space - centrifugal force. The second part will focus on the use of the body fatigue generated previously, by devoting itself to various somatic sensory experiences (individual and collective) around the notions of presence, states, empathy, threshold of perceptions and active listening to oneself and others. We oscillate between rocking, undulating, vibratory and repetitive movements as well as exercises of dissociation and isolation of different tasks and textures, (speed, muscle density, amplitude, etc.) to transcribe and share more intimately and singularly our sensations.

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I imagine this week as a large rigorous playground, between micro-cellular and highly acrobatic/athletic body trajectories to generate energy together. Take risks with confidence, bring out textures, animate reliefs, activate contrasts, expand the creative potential of each person through physical, sensory and cerebral stimulations. I like to facilitate a human experience that relies on the commitment of each person and the energy deployed by the support of the community! Like a big sober party with a fiery playlist to have fun, push the limits, breathe deeply, listen to the intimate, deep and luminous laughter, in the darkness of a current global climate that oppresses hearts and bodies. Act and feel together to bring out the forces of the living and the sensitive, in all that they bring together from the simplest to the most complex, and especially as close as possible to oneself.

Louise Michel Jackson

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Technique classes

May 26 to 30

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

(10 hours)

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Wilder Building

Studio: to be confirmed

Pricing and

Registration

DAC pro - $ 100 ($10/hr)

Standard- $ 180 ($18/hr)

*This workshop may be partially reimbursed through the RQD Dancer Training Support Program . Please verify directly with the RQD.

Louise Michel Jackson​

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Louise Michel is a choreographer, performer and teacher. For over 20 years, she has worked for various companies and independent artists such as Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Rubberbandance, Sasha Kleinplatz, Dana Gingras, Kim Sanh Chau, Frédérick Gravel, Grand Poney/Jacques Poulin-Denis, Adam Kinner, Simon Portigal, Lara Oundjian, and Eastman-Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. After living in Belgium for 5 years, she moved between Brussels and Montreal, creating her first project "STROKE" aka SHUDDER in collaboration with Ben Fury (Belgium). She then created a first solo Bright Worms (Théâtre Lachapelle April 2021 and Offta 2023) a research on bioluminescence with the integration of video projection and light devices in collaboration with sound artist Magali Babin. She is currently accompanying Edon Descollines (associate artist of the Joe Jack and John company) in the role of artistic ally for his show Trou noir (Espace libre, October 2025). Since 2021, she has also been working in the field of plants and flowers at the Jean-Talon market. With her hands in the earth and "off the dance circuit", this fascinating sphere is now essential for maintaining a good mental balance and maintaining a space of retreat necessary for her artistic practice. Transmission practice: It was by guiding Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui repertoire workshops that she began teaching in Europe in 2012. Since then, she has been inspired by a multitude of influences (speakers and collaborators - extraordinary humans) from Europe and here who have shaped her pedagogical and creative approach to transmission. She likes to imagine it as a great sharing of material, information, useful, expansive and malleable tools anchored in an experience of the stage field and studio training. She encourages intuitive momentum, drawn from the vital energy and anatomical limitations specific to each body. Far from form, she favors the practical and efficient motor function of the structural organization of a movement. She shares improvisation structures that offer technical tools and composition strategies to facilitate full awareness, autonomy and confidence through choices inhabited by an intention, an assumed task and a deep feeling. She encourages a horizontality, where pleasure, power, fragility, curiosity, benevolence, rigor, and individual and collective critical analysis (constructive and uninhibited) come together in the same space. She has been a lecturer at UQAM since 2023 and regularly teaches for EDCM, Big Bang and DAC

Studio

Wilder Building

1435 Bleury

Montreal, QC

Office

2 Ste-Catherine E., #200

Montreal, QC, H2X 1K4

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