Site-Specific dance encourages movers to draw inspiration from their surroundings to initiate and create movement. Through paying attention to the environment that we gather in, the ways that our bodies like to move, and noticing our own internal experience in the moment, we will work together to translate those experiences into movement. This workshop will move at a gentle pace, be geared towards those who may not have traditional ways of interacting with movement activities.  ASL interpretation will be provided, and all activities will be inclusive to a variety of disabled and non-disabled movers needs including: offering ideas around translation, engagement with space, decentering sound in dance, and decentering vision in dance. 

Shay Erlich is a hard of hearing, multiply disabled, storyteller, community-engaged artist and wheelchair dancer based in Tkaronto. Shay co-founded The Cyborg Circus Project which served disabled youth in the through arts and leadership programming. Shay teaches and performs based in contemporary and contact improv dance forms among other performance practices. Shay’s performing credits include local and national performances with The Cyborg Circus Project, Political Movement Theatre Company, In Situ 2018, NextFest 2019 and the Contact Dance International Film Festival. 

Photo by Taj Grewal

*This workshop is free. No registration required