Are you a practising artist looking to shake up your creative process? Maybe you’re feeling stuck, uninspired, or unmotivated in your own art-making. Maybe you’re craving new tools to add to your toolkit.

This Fall, professional dance artist and educator Allison Nichol Longtin is inviting makers of all kinds into her creative process. Immerse yourself in a mixed-media practice and step into the role of interpreter as you build an original choreography over 6 weeks (2-hour weekly workshops). Allison will create and demonstrate movement material which will then be shaped to each individual, based on themes exploring connection, disconnection, loneliness, isolation, and community.

Through playful structured improvisations and in-depth movement explorations, you’ll create an original dance work with the ultimate goal of presenting it to the general public at the end of our workshop series.

Whether you already work in the performing arts, have a background in dance, or want to grow your creative practice, Allison will share the tools she’s learned, developed, and honed over years of dance-making as you dive deeply into a new creation together. The tools she shares can be adapted and translated to your own creative process to feed your next creation. No dance experience required. This workshop series is open to art-makers of all kinds. Participants will learn original choreography and perform a new creation at the end of the series.

For ages 18+. A sliding scale fee system is in place to ensure accessibility.

6 Saturday afternoons from 1-3 PM – November 2nd-December 7th, 2024. Final performance on December 7th from 3-4 PM.