CKW’S ANNUAL CAMPAIGN / CAMPAGNE ANNUELLE DE LA CKW
Your generous support will help CKW launch Tiny School thereby supporting the artistic community, CKW included.
In June 2025, CKW will launch Tiny School, as a means of sharing resources and building a mutually supportive structure to sustain experimentation and artistic resilience within the communities of dance and performance, and to strengthen the artistic ecosystem.
Votre généreux soutien aidera CKW à faire de la Tiny School une réalité et à soutenir la communauté d’artistes.
En juin 2025, CKW lancera la Tiny School comme un moyen de partager les ressources et de construire une structure de soutien mutuel pour soutenir l’expérimentation et la résilience artistique au sein des communautés de la danse et de la performance, et pour renforcer l’écosystème artistique. En s’engageant dans l’apprentissage et l’expérimentation par la pratique et la recherche, les participants exploreront et partageront des théories créatives, des méthodes, des technologies et des stratégies perceptives.
ANYTHING WHATSOEVER
Katie Ward seeks to activate both the audience’s imagination and her own as a performer. Her movement score uncovers states, identities and forms housed in her own body archive. For their part, the spectators are invited to speak at different moments of the performance, guided by a score: after the performer has revealed a fact about herself to the microphone, the boom operator approaches each spectator with a microphone and invites them to do the same. The scores of movements and the words of the audience evolve in parallel, intertwining, creating a constantly changing composite – a kind of dream bath.
Past events:
Left of Main (Vancouver): February 1 2025 (Left of Push Festival)
La Rotonde (Québec): Feb 28 – Mar 3rd 2023
Festival of New Dance (St John’s): October 5 2022
Festival TransAmériques – La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines (Montréal):
May 27-Jun 2nd 2021
VAGABOND DANCING NEW TITLE: SCORE TO DANCE INFINITE REALITIES
CKW brings free Score to Dance Infinite Realities workshops offered to the Montreal, Gatineau, and Ottawa communities and invites artists from a variety of artistic practices. CKW will offer classes in other Canadian cities in the coming months. With Montreal artist, choreographer and researcher Marie Claire Forté, Katie initiated a research project called the Score to Dance Infinite Realities. With this project, Marie Claire and Katie are exploring dance, teaching, and training, modalities in dialogue with the current social discourse around practices of autonomy and self-determination.
Score to Dance Infinite Realities
Collège St Laurent: March 4 2025 3pm-16:45pm
Montreal at La Poêle: March 21 2025 10am-1pm
Past events:
Festival TransAmériques (Montréal): Rencontres internationales & Conversations on Performance May 27 2024 & June 2 2024
Concordia University Dance department (Montréal): April 11 – 12 2024
Studio 303 (Montréal): Feb 19 to 23 2024
The School of Dance (Ottawa): January 17, 2024
UQO (Gatineau): invited by Sophie Bélair Clément /Performance art students January 15 2024
Concordia University Dance department (Montréal): October 16-20 2023
Studio 303 (Montréal): October 13 2023
Studio 303 (Montréal): May 1 – 5 2023
École de danse Quatre Temps (Rimouski): March 7 & 8 2023
Maison pour la danse (Québec): Visual arts students University of Laval March 1 2023
Collège de Montréal (Montréal): January 25 2023
FRANKLIN METHOD WORKSHOPS
In 2024, 2025, 2026… Katie will offer workshops in the Franklin Method. These workshops are intended for the general public, movement practitioners, athletes and artists including dancers, performing artists, opera singers. This method can support many physical practices. The Franklin method supports sustainability of daily dance practice. It is individual physical maintenance and it benefits amateurs and movement professionals alike. By working from the idea that our brains are plastic and able to transform, the Franklin Method uses mental imagery to transform the body and improve its function.
Upcoming Franklin imagery and pilates classes
Nyata Nyata: Thursdays from 8:30-9:30 pm Jan – Mar 27 2025
More Spring workshops TBC
Past events:
Pilates Space Ottawa: November 30, 2024
Collège St Laurent: November 13 2024
The Citadel: 304 Parliament St (Toronto) Franklin Method April 28 2024
Pilates Space Ottawa: March 23 2024
Toronto Dance Theatre Studios (Toronto): Franklin Method January 20 2024
UQAM dance department: Guest teacher January 12 2024
ICAV (Institut Canadien d’Art Vocal) Montréal July 10-14 & 17-21 2023
ICAV (Institut Canadien d’Art Vocal) Montréal July 4-22 2022
PRACTICE SHARING / OPEN STUDIO SHARING
Katie shares her artistic practice in a variety of contexts, most recently as a guest teacher in Concordia’s dance program and as a guest artist at the Montreal Danse 2024 choreographic workshop.
TINY SCHOOL – stay tuned for upcoming date!
Tiny School is an initiative of CKW to promote the advancement of dance and the arts for the benefit of all Quebecers. This school is a two-week gathering that happens twice a year. It is a school outside of the university system – a place for artistic exploration and development – that brings together semi-professionals and professionals within the arts community.
RESEARCH AND CREATION FOR NEW SOLO PERFORMANCE
Fluid Being Fluid World New title: Hyperportrait
In 2024 – 2025, Compagnie Katie Ward will research and develop performance practices for her new solo: Hyperportrait. This work addresses important themes such as fluidity, the traces of our family lineage within us, etc…
Residencies:
More residencies upcoming…
Stay tuned for exciting developments for Hyperportrait!
Past events:
Studio 303, December 2024
Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto (Montréal) July 2024
CCOV, April 1-5, 2024
ARTISTIC CONSULTATIONS
At the core activities of CKW, and in order to develop and advance artistic practice, Katie is often invited to provide reflection to support individual creative processes and help choreographers focus through chosen guiding principles on their performances. Katie provides ongoing in-studio artistic consultation to emerging and mid-career artists that can take many forms including outside eye, rehearsal direction and consultation.
Ongoing!
NEW GROUP CHOREOGRAPHY entitled Wayfarer
In 2025, Compagnie Katie Ward will research and develop performance practices for a new group choreography called: Wayfarer – A Spontaneous Composition (working title). In this work, Katie and her collaborators will explore the multiple identities contained within the body archive of the septet of performers. We will develop a performance derived from the score: dance one thing, dance another and so on…
Upcoming activities:
Rehearsals in Montreal and in Gatineau 2024-2025 – Dates TBC
REFLECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF Inclusion, Eco-responsibility and Anti-harassment policies
Compagnie Katie Ward is continually reflecting on and refining it’s modes of operation – working towards better practices around inclusion, anti-harassment and eco-responsibility. CKW strives to remain aware of differences within its working communities and work with these differences to maintain and nurture a healthy and easeful working environment for all.
Ongoing!
SCORE MAKING (CHOREOGRAPHY) WORKSHOPS
Stay tuned for upcoming date!
These workshops are open to artists of all kinds and to the general public. It is for individuals interested in choreographic and/or creative solo and group practices who want to develop a self-directed independent practice.