TINY SCHOOL
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
Upcoming activities:
TINY SCHOOL at Anti-Space, 5425 Casgrain # 318 – Dates TBC
SCORE MAKING (CHOREOGRAPHY) WORKSHOPS
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.
Upcoming activities:
Tiny School at Anti-Space, 5425 Casgrain # 318 – Dates TBC
More workshops with associated partners TBC!
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 activities:
Ottawa: Pilates Space (340 Maclaren St, Suite 100)
November 30th 1:00 – 5:15 pm Register now!
Toronto: CITADEL + COMPAGNIE (304 Parliament St.) Dates TBC
Montréal: Studio Ed (5445 Av. de Gaspé) Dates TBC
VAGABOND DANCING
CKW brings free Vagabond Dancing workshops offered to the Montreal, Gatineau, and Ottawa communities and invites artists from a variety of artistic practices and from diverse cultural backgrounds. CKW will work to develop more partnerships in other Canadian cities to offer classes in the coming months. With famous Montreal artist, choreographer and researcher Marie Claire Forté, Katie initiated a research project called Vagabonding. With this project, we are exploring dance, teaching, and training, modalities in dialogue with the current social discourse around practices of autonomy and self-determination.
Upcoming activities:
Vagabond Dancing – Studio Ed – Dates TBC
Vagabond Dancing Montreal arts community classes (free) at Studio 303 & La Poële – Dates TBC
Vagabond Dancing – Concordia Dance program, Montreal – Dates TBC
WORK-IN-PROGRESS / OPEN STUDIO SHARING with company Nyata Nyata’s dancers
CKW’s Artistic Director, Katie Ward is currently in artistic dialogue with Montréal’s Centre Création Danse Nyata Nyata and Zab Maboungou.
Upcoming activities:
Studio Sharing – Katie will share Vagabonding with Nyata Nyata’s artists – spring 2025
Studio Sharing- Katie will share Fluid Being Fluid World with Nyata Nyata’s artists – spring 2025
RESEARCH AND CREATION FOR NEW SOLO PERFORMANCE – Fluid Being Fluid World
In 2024 – 2025, Compagnie Katie Ward will research and develop performance practices for her new solo: Fluid Being Fluid World. This work addresses important themes such as fluidity, the traces of our family lineage within us, etc…
Upcoming activities:
Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto (Montréal) July 2024
Studio 303, 372 Saint-Catherine St W, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A2 – December 2024
More rehearsals upcoming!
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!