Our DanceWeekend’24 Artist Features kicks off with Dance Together Project as apart of our online film screenings!
Friday, January 26th, 2024 at 7pm VIRTUALLY.
🔗 https://www.dancetogetherproject.com/
About the Dance Together Project:
Dance Together Project is about nurturing human connection and building community through dance. We offer exceptionally fun and inclusive dance programs with a mission to facilitate enjoyable and engaging dance experiences for everybody, regardless of skill level or variations in physical ability. For us, teaching dance is an art form in itself. We approach each class session with care and create a welcoming atmosphere which inspires genuine connection and a more meaningful learning experience.
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself/your company?
As a dance artist, educator and producer, I focus on nurturing human connection and building communities through dance. My overall experience in brining people together through dance spans over thirty years and three different countries. Although my adventures as a young dance artist began in the Russian Far East, I moved to Anchorage, Alaska in 1996 and enjoyed an active career as a performer, choreographer and educator while on faculty at the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Alaska Anchorage. In 2000, I co-founded Ritmovida Dance Partnership with a focus on bringing people together through Latin dance classes, performances and events. In 2007, I co-produced the first Dance Together Alaska Festival to help build an active network between dance communities statewide. Since moving to Toronto, Canada in 2009 and earning a Master of Fine Arts in Dance Dramaturgy and Choreography, I have worked as an independent artist, community event organizer and producer. As the founder of Dance Together Project, I have built lasting partnerships in diverse communities around the GTA, in collaboration with Toronto Dance Community Love-In, Wheel Dance, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, Sarah Elizabeth Centre and various retirement residencies, where I facilitate mixed abilities dance and movement workshops. Since 2019, together with several Toronto dance and visual artists, I have been co-producing the Dance Together Festival, which transforms city neighbourhoods through large scale dance floor murals and community dance workshops that celebrate positive and accessible dance experiences. – Katya Kuznetsova
What will you be sharing at DanceWeekend’24?
EVER SINCE (short film) is a story of a lifetime of dancing together, bringing three generations together in one dance.
What interests you about film as a medium and how does if differ from a live performance?
A dance film is a life of its own. Unlike a live performance, it lives and travels and inspires independently from the dancer(s) physical presence. It lives many years and many lives. It is both a performance and an archive of itself.
What does dance mean to you?
My world is dance
I eat it, smell it, treasure it
I wear it inside out and outside in.
It is my skin and the way I begin:
I sleep in it and wake with it
I breathe it, think it, know it
My love, my child, mother, friend.
It is my path
It is my end.
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