Community Movement Project
with Darryl Tracy
We’re thrilled to welcome Darryl Tracy this summer for a captivating community movement project. It’s an incredible opportunity to engage with our community through the art of dance. Everyone is welcome - all ages and levels!
The Community Movement Project is a site-specific project designed with community members exploring how to listen, lead and function and problem solve as a unified committed harmonies group.
Performance date: Wednesday, July 24 - outside in UptownSJ
All performers must attend, at least, one of three workshops:
Dates & times:
Saturday, July 20 - 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM at First City School of Dance
Sunday, July 21 - 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM at First City School of Dance
Monday, July 22 - 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM - meet at Queen Square
Cost: $10 or Pay-What-You-Wish
Community Movement Project
Saint John Contemporary Dance Festival 2024
The Community Movement Project is a series of movement workshops held uptown Saint John. Unleash your creativity through the exploration of movement in a series of warm-ups and directed improvisations to live music. These workshops offer an opportunity to delve into the possibilities of rhythm, tempo, and the intrinsic relationship between movement and music. No prior dance experience is necessary – all are welcome!
Description for The Community Movement Project:
The Community Movement Project is a site-specific project designed with community members exploring how to listen, lead and function and problem solve as a unified committed harmonious group.
How do we unite and animate a space, infusing it with life and energy? How do we cultivate receptivity and responsiveness while simultaneously guiding and leading?
Under the guidance of Darryl Tracy with live music by Ian Gibson, the Bricks and Mortar Dance Project is a community-based endeavour aimed at inhabiting spaces in Uptown Saint John with 15-20 dancers/movers, all moving in harmony and sharing an improvised-based score for the Saint John Contemporary Dance Festival in July 2024. These participants will encompass individuals of all ages, experience levels and abilities. Darryl Tracy, along with Connection Dance Works and First City School of Dance, aim to recruit 15-20 participants who will collectively rehearse prior to the July performance where audiences can witness a collective language being formed before their eyes. Enhanced by music accompaniment by Saint John’s Ian Gibson, this promises to be a delightful summer spectacle.
Workshop dates & times:
Saturday, July 20 - 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM at First City School of Dance
Sunday, July 21 - 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM at First City School of Dance
Monday, July 22 - 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM - meet at Queen Square
The performance is scheduled for early evening on Wednesday, July 23rd.
If you’re interested in being part of this exciting project, please email us at connectiondanceworks@gmail.com to express your interest.
You do not need to be at all 3 workshops to participate; however it is strongly recommended to be at the final workshop on Monday, July 23.
Cost: $10 or Pay-What-You-Wish
Link to register.
Darryl Tracy
Darryl Tracy is an Toronto based independent dance artist: choreographer, teacher and interpreter. Native to New Brunswick, Darryl seeks to explore human movement though creation, collaboration and curiousity. He has created over 44 creations seen internationally over the past 2 decades and has performed in the creations of most of Canada's renowned choreographers. He is on faculty at The National Ballet School-Teachers Training Program.
Ian Gibson
Based in Rothesay, New Brunswick, Ian performs regularly with Symphony New Brunswick and various other ensembles throughout the Greater Saint John Area. When not on stage, he is kept busy as a Percussion Teaching Artist for Sistema New Brunswick.
Prior to moving to New Brunswick in 2017, Ian was the Head of Percussion Studies at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario, for twelve years. He was also the Classical Percussion Instructor at Laurentian University and the Principal Percussionist of the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra.
Ian obtained both his Bachelor and Master of Music Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Toronto, where he studied with the world renowned percussion ensemble NEXUS. He is currently endorsed by Innovative Percussion, Pearl Drums & Adams Percussion.
