Workshop Schedule
Venue: Toronto Dance Theater, Studio A, 80 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date: March 14th, 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 1:00pm - 8:00pm
Fee: $20 for each 1.5hr workshop. Symposium participants get 50% off for each workshop.
1:15 - 2:45 Chinese Contemporary Dance - Professor Yin Mei Critchell from New York
3:00 - 4:30 Chinese Classical Dance - Professor Shih-Ming L. Chang from Ohio
4:45 - 6:15 Introduction to Peking Opera - Mr. William Lau from Ottawa
6:30 - 8:00 Creative Workshop on Chinese Theatre Concepts and Techniques - Professor Dongshin Chang from Guelph
Workshop Descriptions
Chinese Contemporary Dance 1:15 - 2:45
Professor Yin Mei Critchell
Professor Mei Yin, also a choreographer will be teaching one of her works in Chinese contemporary dance. This will be a very stimulating and innovative workshop that allows participants to experience various dance vocabularies.
Chinese Classical Dance 3:00 - 4:30
Professor Shih-Ming L. Chang
In Professor Chang's workshop, she will share some opera dance vocabulary, including the use of props. The audience will have the opportunity to work with the props as well, so this will be a good hands-on experience for the audience. She will also share some movement phrases of her own work, which is a fusion of Chinese classical forms and Modern dance.
Introduction to Peking Opera 4:45 - 6:15
Mr. William Lau
William Lau's lecture/demo will cover a brief history of the development of Peking Opera, the major character roles: Sheng, Dan, Jing, Chou, the symbolic meanings of theatrical conventions, the usage of make-up, costumes, and props, and the different styles of repertoires.
Creative Workshop on Chinese Theatre Concepts and Techniques 6:30 - 8:00
Professor Dongshin Chang
In conjunction with his symposium paper, Professor Chang will conduct a workshop in which he plans to lead the participants to practice and explore a few Chinese performing techniques (ex. pao yuan chang, yun shou, tai bu, zhi fa) and offer a few examples of how he uses these techniques beyond the original Chinese context. Participants are welcome to take inspiration from the examples that he offers and develop their own creative uses of the techniques.
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