The workshop on Thursday, October 3 will take place in the East Common Room (located on the first floor) and the workshop on Thursday, October 10 will take place in the Music Room (located on the second floor).

In this movement-based workshop led by Angela, participants will experience her embodied practices in connecting with the more-than-human world, and explore possibilities for entering into bodily resonance with plants. This workshop, facilitated in a group setting, will be a space for knowledge-sharing. Participants are invited to create physical movements that allow for a reciprocity with plants, land, and other beings that exist within a shared ecology. Participants will be stepping softly into the ebb and flow of primal bio rhythms—rhythms that we share with everything there is in the world—and identifying how and where they fit within it. No previous experience is required. The artist encourages participation to those with an openness and interest in subtle attunement with plants.

Note:

  • Participants are not required, but are encouraged, to attend both workshops. See “Related Programming” below for more information.
  • This Program has a limited capacity. Check back here for a registration link.

MOSSBELLY is an intergenerational performance and choreographic meditation on our human connection to land, plant life, nature and time.

This program is part of Keeping Time, a workshop series that centres embodied learning by inviting intergenerational audiences of all abilities to pay special attention to time, space and movement through somatic learning and unlearning.

This program is presented in partnership with Hart House and the Institute for Dance Studies.

Image credit: Courtesy of Angela Vitovec.

Date

October 3, October 10

Time

4:00pm – 6:00pm

This venue is wheelchair accessible.

A photograph of dancer Angela Vitovec. She is white, with long brown hair. She is sitting inside a furry cave. She is wearing a brown top and blue jeans, and is barefoot. There is a smile on her face.

Artist Bio

Angela Vitovec

Angela Vitovec aka Angela Schubot, choreographer, dancer, teacher, movement researcher, bodyworker and mother, works in Tkaronto and Berlin with roots in Peru. Her work proposes to shift away from utilitaristic relationships with plants. Through entering into mutual communications with plant beings, she develops a collaborative body of work in which learning and creating occurs directly from the plants. Following her experimental methods she co-created three main works: the Solo SAMMAL/MOSS (2022), MOSSBELLY (2023) and “YA! (a yarrow choir)” (2024). 2023 Angela changed her artistic name, taking the name of her long-forgotten grandfather who was made aware to her by plants: Vitovec.

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