MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS WITH CINNAMOON COLLECTIVE!




Join CinnaMoon Collective for contemporary movement workshops designed to help you expand your unique voice through dance.

Nickeshia Garrick & Irma Villafuerte are offering two youth-centred workshops and two adult-centred workshops for a pay-what-you-can fee.

The workshops are presented in partnership with Kaeja d’Dance.



CinnaMoon Collective Youth Workshops

  • Designed for those with a movement or dance practice who are 15-18 years of age
  • Saturday, April 20, 2024 from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
  • Sunday, April 21, 2024 from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
  • You can attend a single workshop, or participate in both over the weekend to further expand your work with the material.
  • Cost: Pay-What-You-Can
  • Location: Dovercourt House – First Floor – 805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto 

[North of Bloor Street, a few minutes’ walk from Ossington Subway Station. Please note the building is not wheelchair accessible.]

Activate your imagination and curiosity through movement. CinnaMoon Collective invites you to expand and discover your unique physical language by discovering new tools to create. Accessing your body as the instrument, and yourself as the entry point, this workshop will facilitate creation through play and connection. 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

(Drop-in on the day of any workshop available as well)



CinnaMoon Collective Adult Workshops

  • Designed for those with a movement or dance practice who are aged 19+
  • Saturday, April 20, 2024 from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
  • Sunday, April 21, 2024 from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
  • You can attend a single workshop, or participate in both over the weekend to further expand your work with the material.
  • Cost: Pay-What-You-Can
  • Location: Dovercourt House – First Floor – 805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto 

[North of Bloor Street, a few minutes’ walk from Ossington Subway Station. Please note the building is not wheelchair accessible.]

The ritual of activating the body collide through breath and movement in this exploratory, imaginative and expressive workshop. CinnaMoon Collective will guide you to embody the narratives of land and memory through movement, writing and breath. Be prepared to physically connect with others, to journal, and to express your authentic self.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

(Drop-in on the day of any workshop available as well)



ABOUT CINNAMOON COLLECTIVE

CinnaMoon Collective is founded by Irma Villafuerte and Nickeshia Garrick, a Central American and Afro-Caribbean contemporary dance duo that is dedicated to reclaiming and honouring ancestral stories from a decolonial perspective, with the mission to ignite collective healing and recontextualize identity through the lens of black, indigenous and racialized femme presenting queer bodies. We are committed to forming part of the movement that is dedicated to magnifying the voices that have been silenced and erased. We aim to share works that reach our audiences and communities on a human level. Nickeshia and Irma have been collaborating as dance artists for over 7 years through companies such as Victoria Mata Productions, Jaberi Dance Theatre and Kaeja d’Dance, to name a few. Most recently in the play Pluto, written and directed by Shaunga Tagore. Irma and Nickeshia are mid-career dance artists and educators interested and passionate in reclaiming joys, cultural memory and reconnecting to homeland. As individual artists they award nominated and winning dance artists, who have extensive training in dance, theatre, and voice work.

CinnaMoon Collective has nurtured their creative beginnings through residencies in El Salvador at the Centro de Arte para la Paz in Suchitoto (Arts Centre for Peace), thorugh through Aluna Theatre which led to a work in progress presentation at Caminos Festival in fall 2023, and will be presenting the same work in progress at Aeris Korper’s Prospects Evening of Dance and Discussion. The collective will be premiering their first collaborative full length immersive dance-theatre work “Surrendered Spirits” in May 2024, which is co-curated and produced by dance Immersion and Kaeja d’Dance, and presented by dance Immersion.

www.cinnamooncollective.com