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Kaha:wi Dance Theatre: Workshop with Charles Koroneho

By Julye Huggins

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s Aboriginal Dance Training recently began classes, running August 7th through 31st at Canada’s National Ballet School in Toronto. The intensive program offers classes in ballet, contemporary, cultural dances, company repertoire and dance practice lectures. This year, it also feature alternative training workshops in Muscle & Bone, Gaga and a choreographic lab led by Charles Koroneho.The work is geared to stimulate dance and theatre artists from all cultural backgrounds “to increase exposure and investigation into Indigenous dance forms both traditional and contemporary.” According to Kaha:wi’s website, the training “offers a combination of western-based dance and Indigenous dance techniques/styles complemented by alternative training systems that are aimed to activate and prepare the body and mind for movement and performance.”Moreover, Planet IndigenUS is about to launch August 10th through 19th, with Kaha:wi Dance Theatre giving the North American premiere of Susuriwka - Willow Bridge at Harbourfront Centre. Also part of the festival lineup, Koroneho will be holding a technique workshop, performance, and discussion of Indigenous creative practice in Brantford on August 13th.
Learn more:Kaha:wi Dance Theatre Planet IndigenUS

Posted August 9, 2012

Collective Copyright

As dance artists navigate projects and performances, they encounter differing ideas of authorship. The evolving relationship between artists and digital media sharing have also shaped how these concepts are understood. Slinger spoke with several contemporary dance artists about their understandings of ownership, authorship and the role of intellectual property in their art-making processes. She also weighs in with Carys Craig, a scholar of intellectual property, who argues that the legal system imposes binaries, such as choreographer/performer or work/performance, on creative work that do not speak to how dance is created, performed and shared.

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