Raven Spirit Dance hosts
Contemporary Indigenous Dance MASTER CLASSES with Alejandro Ronceria Sept 13 &15
an internationally acclaimed and award winning director, choreographer, & producer based in Canada
Dates: September 13 & 15
Time: 10am-12pm
Registration: 9:45 am
Fees: $20
Location: Mascall Dance (St. Paul’s Church) 1130 Jervis St. Vancouver
More info: info@ravenspiritdance.com or call 604.646.0010
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*open to experienced dancers (inter-advanced) 18yrs +
Contemporary Indigenous Dance Master Class DESCRIPTION:
The focus will be on the concepts of Dance and Ritual – Identifying personal everyday rituals, students will investigate the role of ritual in culture and dance. Improvisations that explore the distinct characteristics of ritual including the use and effects of repetition, space and voice. Classes will focus on bringing artists to understanding the presence of space, time, dimension, musicality, and narrative elements into their practice. Participants will be engaged in a series of movements and exercises to find the relationship between themselves and their physical environment, with the goal being an effective transformation that can sway the audience’s perception of the stage.
Alejandro Ronceria
Alejandro Ronceria is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning director, choreographer, producer based in Canada. Most recently, Ronceria was a director/choreographer for Almalgama, commissioned by the City of Toronto for Pan Am 2015.
He was the director/co-producer of the opening showcase for the Aboriginal Pavilion for Pan Am 2015. In 2013, Ronceria was the director for the Northern Scene National Arts Centre: Spirit of the Drum and the director for the Northern Scene National Arts Centre Opening Gala. Ronceria was also the director/co-producer for the Arctic Winter Games Opening Gala in 2012 and choreographer for the official opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The live event was aired on ten international broadcast channels in a total of 11 languages.
Ronceria was the co-founder/founding artistic director of the first Aboriginal Dance Program in North America at The Banff Center for the Arts. The groundbreaking program brought together diverse Indigenous and Inuit dancers from Canada, the USA, Mexico and Greenland. From 1996-2001, he served as the artistic director. This program was the incubator for developing a new generation of choreographers working in Canada and abroad and served as a model for various schools for indigenous dance internationally. In 2010, Ronceria was the first recipient to graduate with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from York University in Dance Dramaturgy and is the first to hold this degree from a Canadian university.
