Meet the DanceWeekend25 Artists: Lucy Rupert

METAPHORS– exploratory movement class. Using imagery and ideas form nature and cosmology, we move to expand our range of ideas and motion, challenge our habits, find strength, ease and joy in our unique ways of doing these things. Classes are open to all movers.

Lucy Rupert is a dancer, choreographer, art-science researcher, and writer. She has performed with Fujiwara Dance Inventions, Theatre Rusticle, Nova Dance, Anandam Dance, Sashar Zarif Dance, Puppetmongers Theatre, Circus Orange, and Chartier Danse, among others. In 2004 Lucy founded Blue Ceiling dance, an umbrella for her choreography, commissions, productions and teaching. Lucy has a Joint Honours BA in Dance and Music, an MA in History and currently studies philosophy for fun. In her non-dance time she birdwatches, participates in citizen science, and writes about Toronto dance history, and art-science creative processes. She lives in west-end Toronto with her husband and son, and two feral cats, in a magical neighbourhood full of coyotes and old trees.

all movers welcome. bare feet or socks preferred, but shoes appropriate for the studio floors are also fine especially if participants have injury or stability concerns.

Workshop at the Fifth Dance March 14 12:15-2:15pm — Science Dance Embodiment. Specifically investigating how we can and cannot embody the big questions and theories of cosmology through exploratory movement, and the joy we can find in the challenge of embodiment. Through individual improvisation and group collaboration, the workshop aims to stretch our movement potential, break habits and dip into the creative process of Lucy’s solo dance “heat death”. www.thefifthdance.com for info Blue Ceiling dance is also hosting PWYC online classes in May blueceilingdance.com/classes for info

Dance to me is autonomy and synergy between the world around us and the world within us.