November Movement Labs with Colleen Snell

November Movement Labs with Colleen Snell

Join Artistic Director Colleen Snell for a technique class + a movement lab on Sunday afternoons in November to grow your creative practice!

By Frog in Hand

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Sunday, November 24 · 12 - 4pm EST

Location

Frog in Hand Productions Inc.

887 Hydro Road Mississauga, ON L5E 1E9 Canada

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event
Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.

About this event

Join Frog in Hand's Artistic Director Colleen Snell on Sundays in November from 12-4pm at The Art Shelter to grow your creative movement practice. Each day will begin with a contemporary technique class to warm us up, then a Movement Lab where we will play and create. Each Movement Lab will be a different theme, giving us time to learn movement tools, practice them and create something. You can join for just class, just the lab, or the full day!

AGENDA
11:30am-noon studio opens for optional self-warm up
noon-1:30 contemporary technique with Colleen
1:30-1:45 break
1:45-3:45 creative lab (see below, varies each week)
3:45-4pm talkback, feedback, cool down

Movement Labs
November 3rd - Frog in Hand Repertoire
We'll learn excerpts from Frog in Hand's 2021 work War of the Worlds Reimagined, dancing to recorded text.

November 10th - Let's Create: Site Specific Choreography
We'll look at site analysis and work outside (weather pending) to create a promenade-style work together.

November 17 - Partnering Tools + Improvisation
We'll dive into lifts and end with a 20-minute dance jam.

November 24 - Stage Combat for Dancers (an introduction to unarmed techniques)
We'll learn how to create the illusion of violence for the stage, looking at techniques that keep us safe and help us tell a compelling story. The class will culminate in short scene work and a chance to check out some stage combat from Frog in Hand's 2023 work "Noir."

ABOUT YOUR TEACHER - Colleen Snell
Colleen is obsessed with storytelling; it shows in her multidisciplinary practice. She's an educator, dramaturge, world builder, placemaker, fight director, and sound designer - but she's most passionate about movement and dance as a vehicle for human expression. Colleen is the Artistic Director of Frog in Hand, a dance company she cofounded. For over 10 years she has devised and performed with Frog in Hand, generating cultural capital in her hometown of Mississauga and advocating for contemporary dance in a suburban setting. Colleen's choreography incorporates large, ensemble casts and themes inspired by science fiction. Her site-specific work has appeared in a brew pub, rowing club, arena, factory, sawmill, gym, and splash pad - as well as more "traditional" educational institutions and stages across Canada (like Springboard Danse, the Guelph Dance Festival, York and Metropolitan University).

Colleen completed her MA with Distinction at the London Contemporary Dance School in England, and her rare passion for grant writing has garnered support for Frog in Hand from the OAC, Canada Council, Mississauga Community Foundation, Trillium Foundation, Canada Summer Jobs, Federal Cultural Spaces and Mississauga Arts Council, among others. As a dancer, she most recently worked with TranscenDance Project on their 2024 immersive "Eve of Saint George" production, telling the story of Dracula across three entire floors of The Great Hall in Toronto.

**IMAGES ABOVE BY VINCENT ENORME + STEPHEN UHRANEY OF FROG IN HAND DANCERS with 2024 SUMMER COMPANY

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Frog in Hand

Frog in Hand began with a cast of frogs performing circus tricks under the artistic direction of two sisters, Noelle Hamlyn and Colleen Snell, who were one and five years old at the time. From this whimsical debut springs our firm belief that art begins in humble places – including the mud and grass of the backyard. Building on this modest foundation we have formed a diverse collective of dancers, fight choreographers, musicians, actors, spoken word poets, costume designers and visual artists who come together to create cross-disciplinary performances in unusual spaces. Our collective has national and international professional experience, having trained and performed in Canada (Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal), the United States (Chicago, Miami, New York), Japan, China, Korea, India, Ireland, Israel, Australia and England. Frog in Hand has received commissions from the Canada Council for the Arts (2016), the Ontario Arts Council (2014/15/16/17), the Guelph Dance Festival, Hillside Inside Festival, Art Gallery of Ontario, Kitchener Waterloo’s Night/Shift, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario’s Culture Days, the Mississauga Waterfront Festival, Springboard Danse Montreal (2015) and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Frog in Hand has created and produced many dance works – mostly site specific projects incorporating theatrical and visual elements. We've worked in parks, gazebos, a public water fountain, staircases, an abandoned gun factory, an elevator, art galleries, street corners and various theatres. Frog in Hand incorporated as a not-for profit in 2016.

From CA$19.50