The Arts and Older Adults

Katie Ward

Dance

In my work, I draw from the inner world of the self, and an experience of change and flow from our connection to the world. I offer ways to embody this through dance and words (both spoken and written). This approach upholds Invention, imagination, empowerment, autonomy and self-determination in students. I have worked with neurotypical and non-neuro typical school students and adults. Disciplines: Choreography, dance, speaking and writing informed by sensation and imagery.

Sample workshop:

Participants will be led through a process to embody their inner worlds through dance, gesture and spoken words. We will produce short solo and group performances and small poems all stemming from listening to the self and others. To do this, I work with directions to guide action called scores that we will develop as a group.

I work to create conditions for students to activate their own sense of invention, imagination and and Aha! moments.

Materials:

Comfortable clothes to move in. An empty or cleared room for dancing.

Listed with:

ArtistsInspire

Available for:

In-person workshops, On-line workshops

Language(s) of facilitation:

English

Contact:

compagniekatieward@gmail.com

http://katieward.org/

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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