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Creators' Journeys and Discoveries 2008-2021

Every Choreographic Marathon its own character springing from the interests of the participants and the nature of their work. These are...

2021-22: Creation Journeys onONline still in progress

The 2021-22 Creation Intensive is still in progress, in our in-person and online studios, extending across 9 times zones, including...

2020-21: Artists and Credits

Leads: Maxine Heppner, Jessie Fraser, Peter Jenkins for onONline: Andrea Nann (Dreamwalker Dance), Adèle Ross (new generation>STDT),...

2019: Creator's Journeys

How do we most clearly communicate what we know? The common thread for all 2019 creation groups was Translation: from trio to solo, solo...

2019: Mentors and Credits

Mentors Maxine Heppner (lead) Susan Lee, Takako Segawa, Michael Caldwell Creation Assistants Jessie Fraser, Kiera Shaw, Nina Milanovic...

Valérie Pitre: traversing time: with Claudelle Labreque

Valérie Pitre, lead creator Claudelle Labreque, collaborator, interpreter The CM 2019 was conducted in English, French, Japanese and...

Peter Kelly: taboo made public: with Margarita Soria

Peter Kelly, creator, performer Margarita Soria, interpreter Goals: To explore and develop work based on themes of sexuality. To look at...

Ayaka Miwa: words to movement: with Mio Sakamoto & Yui Ugai

Creator, Performer Goals: To tell a story without words to change theatrical duet to a dance solo keep the spirit of a child when making...

Alex Winters: historic into present aesthetic: with Sophie Dow & Oriah Wiersma

Creative Journey CM2019 Alexandra Winters, Choreographer Sophie Dow, Oriah Wiersma, Interpreters Goals: Re–examine dance material...

Rachel Facchini: from self to others: with Tavia Christina, Brianna Clarke

Rachel Facchini, Choreographer Tavia Christina, Brianna Clarke, Interpreters Goals: Make a duet inspired by solo material already...

2018: Creators' Journeys

Overview of 2018's work sees... ... discovering internal impulses to express loss and recovery, ... releasing privacy to gain public...

2018: Mentors and Credits

Mentors Maxine Heppner (lead) Susan Lee, Jessica Runge, Michael Caldwell, Takako Segawa Creation Assistants Kiera Shaw, Alison Keerey,...

Olivia C. Davies : rematriation

Choreographer / Performer Question: “Who am I as an indigenous artist right now- what does the notion of “rematriation” (return to...

Nina Milanovski : dancing relationships

Choreographer With interpreters Victoria Gubiani, Paige Sayles Goals: Create a duet based on coupling and uncoupling with a narrative...

Monica Shah : dancing stillness

Choreographer / Performer Seconded by: Jaya Srivastava-Chawla Goals: Explore concept of Stillness as an expressive force for movement....

Ashley Burmaster: form and passion

Choreographer With interpreters Josephine Jakubowski, Lindsay Harpham, Mikaela Orford, Sarah Mclennan, Dominique Tersigni Goals: connect...

Amelia Jakasa : inner acoustics of my body

Choreographer / Performer Seconds: Samantha Lucchetta, Jane Alison McKinney, Jacob Edwards-Schell Goals: Use the audience in the...

2017: Creators' Journeys

Overview of 2017's work sees... ... explorations in contemporary expression of personal roots in Afro-Caribbean, Body-Mind Centring,...

2017: Mentors and Credits

Mentors: Maxine Heppner (lead) Susan Lee, Jessica Runge, Michael Caldwell Creation Assistants: Kiera Shaw, Alison Keerey, Nina Milanovski...

Lo Bil : spontaneity & form

Choreographer / Performer Goal: To distinguish a way of working that will enable re–entry into the world of an “Action” even within...

Tammy MacLeod : mapping intention

Choreographer / Performer Goals: To decipher her creative process for creation of a self-solo: i.e. how to cultivate and refine...

Susan Wolfe : intelligent bodies

Choreographer With interpreters: Jen Yi Hum, Francesca Cudnoff, Keira Shaw, Nina Milanovski Goal: Create several duets. Develop more...

Liam Ellington : thoughts into dance

Choreographer With interpreters Carly Psutka, Shaelynn Loobbezoo, Maggie Lucas, Lindsay McBride Goal: to create a 3-5 minute set dance...

Keira Sweeney : beyond own boundaries

Keira Sweeney - Choreographer/Performer Goals: To explore choreographing a self-solo. To explore her fascination of impossible classical...

2016: Creators' Journeys

Overview of 2016's work sees.... ... explorations as diverse as the artists and their genres: Contemporary, Afro-Caribbean, Break, &...

2016: Mentors and Credits

Mentors: Maxine Heppner (lead) Susan Lee, Takako Segawa, Junia Mason, Jessica Runge Creation Assistants: Kiera Shaw, Michela Sisti,...

Kate (Agent Lynx) Alsterlund: archive to performance

Kate (Agent Lynx) Alsterlund (choreographer-interpreter) (Montreal) Beginning: A video archive of previous choreographies. Desires: To...

Amanda Benn : intuition and form

Amanda Benn (choreographer/performer) Jacqueline Powell (interpreter), Teisha Lockhart (pre-CM prep) (Montreal-Toronto) Beginning: Drafts...

Holly Small : intent and content

Holly Small (choreographer) Jessica Runge, Oriah Wiersman (interpreters) (Toronto) Beginning: Two solos in draft form Jigsaw : early...

Jamee Valin : riff, choose, hone

Jamee Valin (choreographer-interpreter) Jen-Yi Hum & Jannine Saarinen (assisting creation) (Toronto) Goal: Build series of movement...

2012: Creators' Journeys

The overview of 2012's work sees... ....clear identification of how 3 basic motivations defined the different processes and outcomes of...

2012: Mentors and Credits

Mentors: Maxine Heppner (lead) Susan Lee, Takako Segawa, Jessica Runge Studio Coordination and Creative assistants: Janina Kowalski, Joy...

Nika Stein : story in body

Nika Stein (choreographer) Fabiola Ugarte, Deepali Lindblom, Yui Ugai (interpreters) Montreal and Baie Comeau, Quebec, India, Japan...

Alison Krause - Good Women Dance Collective : high impact performance

Alison Krause (choreographer) Ainsley Hillyard, Kate Stashko, Alida Nyquist-Schultz (interpreters) GoodWomenDanceCollective, Edmonton,...

Sarah Lochhead - Simcoe Contemporary Dancers : creating from sensation

Sarah Lochhead (choreographer) Nadege Blackhall, Regan McQuoid, Jessica Ransom (interpreters) Simcoe Contemporary Dancers, Barrie Ontario...

2010: Creators' Journeys

Creator's Journeys Every Choreographic Marathon session has its own character springing from shared choreographic principles (see notes

Ida Meftahi : new routes for rooted conventions

Ida Meftahi (choreographer) Meaghan Guisti, Marlowe Porter (interpreters) Beginning Working from a narrative and from a pre-existing...

2010: Mentors and Credits

Mentors: Maxine Heppner (lead) with Susan Lee, Takako Segawa, Jessica Runge Studio Coordination and Creative assistants: Janina Kowalski,...

Tracey Norman : actuality of doing

Tracey Norman (choreographer) Jesse Dell, Sky Fairchild-Waller (interpreters) Beginning: Began with a whole dance inspired by an...

Claire French : dancing what's not there

Claire French (choreographer) Justine Chambers, Brenna McLaud, Heather Laura Gray (interpreters) Beginning: Came with an intellectual...

Jannine Saarinen : non-character choreography

Jannine Saarinen (choreographer) Jennifer Hum (Jen-Yi Hum), Alex Bascynskyj (interpreters) Beginning Came with a finished piece that was...

Lisa Weiler : sensory overload

Lisa Weiler (choreographer) Anna Stanutz, Joy Lee (interpreters) Beginning Came with a physical query (when take senses away, how does...

2008 - who was there

Creators Michael Caldwell with Emma Kate Millar & Jessica Wilson (Toronto) finding the heart in the technique Andrew Tay with Marilyne...

Maxine Heppner

Canadian Maxine Heppner is an international dance artist, director and teacher of contemporary dance and interdisciplinary theatre. Known fo

Susan Lee

Susan Lee is one of Toronto’s well-known figures in contemporary dance. She began working with Maxine in 2002 and has been contributing...

Jessica Runge

Jessica Runge is one of Canada's celebrated dance artists, known for her lyricism, grace, intelligence and humour. .She was instrumental...

Takako Segawa

Takako Segawa has been working with Maxine since 2004 as a visiting principle performer, researcher, and rehearsal assistant in Maxine’s...

Junia Mason

Specialist interpretation, narration, contemporizing roots; dancer, performance artist, educator, writer, a co-founder of COBA...

Sashar Zarif

Sashar Zarif brings to the CM his clear perception of the interdependence of intention-spirit-craft in dance-making and performance....

Kate Alsterlund

Kate Alsterlund, aka B-girl Lynx, brings to the CM her understanding of new dance creation through her b-girl lens. She values community...

Peter Jenkins

Specialist, body-mind in process: Peter shares with the CM his knowledge and sensitivity to body-mind wellness within the rigours of...

Lo Bil

Lo Bil, (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist using language, movement and the energetic flows. Her body-driven experiments aim to...

Associates

Charmaine Headley

Charmaine Headley, champion of Africanist dance, is co-founding artistic director of Toronto’s COBA:Collective of Black Artists, and...

Jessie Fraser

Jessie Fraser is a creator and educator based in Toronto where, among many other things, she has been a founding member of Groundling...

Michael Caldwell

Mentoring performance and dramatic interpretation; bringing to the CM his wide ranging experience in diverse processes and dance forms,...

People

Adele Ross
Agent Lynx (Kate Alsterlund)

Ainsley Hillyard

Alex Bascynskyj

Alida Nyquist-Schultz

Alison Krause

Amanda Benn

Andrea Nann

Andrew Tay

Anna Ros

Anna Stanutz

Antigone Gyra

Ben Cox

Bengt Jorgen

Brenna McLaud

Carly Psutka

Carmen Romero

Christina Litt - Belch

Christos Giotis

Claire French

Deepali Lindblom

Denise Fujiwara

Edward Toldeo

Emma Kate Millar,

Fabiola Ugarte

Gerry Trentham

GoodWomenDanceCollective

Heather Berry

Heather Laura Gray

Heidi Strauss

Holly Small

Ian Garrett

Ida Meftahi

Jacob Edwards - Schell

Jacqueline Powell

Jade Sakamoto

Jamee Valin

Jane Alison McKinney

Janina Kowalski

Jannine Saarinen

Jaya Srivasta - Chawla

Jen Yi Hum

Jesse Dell

Jessica Ransom

Jessica Runge

Jessica Wilson

Jonathan Heppner

Joy Lee

Junia Mason

Justine Chambers

Kara Nolte

Karen Kaeja

Kate Stashko

Keira Shaw

Keira Sweeney

Kristin Likhovid

Kurumi Yoshimoto

Laura Burrows

Laura Hendrickson

Liam Ellington

Lindsay McBride

Lisa Weiler

Lo Bil

Lucia Daisog

Lyndsay McBride

Lynndsey Larre

Maggie Lucas

Marilyne St. Sauveur

Mafa Makhubalo

Malgorzata Novack - May

Marie Jose Chartier

Marlowe Porter

Maxine Heppner

Meaghan Guisti,

Melanie Joachim

Michael Caldwell

Milena Vigliotta

Miriam Walther

Nadege Blackhall

Naishi Wang

Nika Stein

Nina Milanovski

Oriah Wiersman

Peter Jenkins

Pulga Muchochoma

Regan McQuoid

Samantha Lucchetta

Sarah Lochhead

Sashar Zarif

Shaelynn Loobbezoo

Shokufeh Sakhi

Simcoe Contemporary Dancers

Sky Fairchild-Waller

Susan Lee

Susan Wolfe

Takako Segawa

Tammy MacLeod

Teisha Lockhart

Tohru Kawakami

Tracey Norman

Victoria Mata Soledad

Yevgeniya Falcovitch

Yvonne Ng Peck Wan

Yui Ugai

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