The Arts and Older Adults

Carla Soto

Dance

My experience” working” with elder people started back in 2003 while I started teaching Yoga adapted for elder people (65+) at the YMCA Mile-End and at the Côte des Neiges Community Center in Montreal.
Since 2022 I have been collaborating with the Montreal based dance company Emmanuel Jouthe Danse Carpe Diem for several mediation dance workshops created for the elder community (55+). These are the 2 main mediations/artistic projects where I have been collaborting in their creation and animating these dance workshops:
“Futures Réciproques) and “Promenades Intérieures).

Sample workshop:

In collaboration with dance company Emmanuel Jouthe Danse Carpe Diem PROMENADES INTERIEURES (“INTERIOR WALKS”) is to allow authenticity and expression of the body for better health in a creative, is a cultural mediation project aimed for seniors (55 +) with an interest in dance. This is an opportunity to learn about movement, through awakening the body, as part of a series of creative dance workshops. The main intention of “INTERIOR WALKS” is to allow authenticity and expression of the body for better health in a creative, cultural, and social dimension. I have been offering these workshop 3 times et the Sportif Centre Yvonne Deschamps, at the Centre Aquatique de Rosemont.

Video:

Materials:

nature objects (stones, branches, feathers…)

Available for:

In-person workshops

Language(s) of facilitation:

English, French, Spanish

Contact:

mahacarla@gmail.com

(514)716-4389

https://emmanueljouthe.com/oeuvres/fr-futurs-reciproques/

Montreal

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.

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