2020-21 Wild Card Movement – An outdoor improvisation experiment open to the public. We performed the first Friday of every month, in different civic spaces around Saskatoon, from October of 2020. Our dancers gathered weekly to practice ensemble dance improvisation skills, observing pandemic restrictions. We videoed our improvisations and gathered to view and critique our work every week. When weather permitted, outdoors projected on to the side of a building, and online in winter.
LIVE movement improvisation. Puzzle-solving, meaning-making, listening and celebrating! This is Wild Card Movement.
Link to Global TV News interview
LIVE movement improvisation. Puzzle-solving, meaning-making, listening and celebrating! This is Wild Card Movement.
Link to Global TV News interview
We appreciate donations to help cover our expenses. Information and e-transfers at [email protected].
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Friday, December 3, Utopic Inventions, Meewasin Trail. A performance, a dance party, where the audience helped create, for a half-hour, utopia on earth. Many thanks to all who came out and helped us to imagine a time and place where people are free... free from hunger, free from persecution, free from fear. Free to express themselves, to love, to grow food, to dance!
Friday, November 19, Meewasin Trail, exploring the space and experimenting with scores.
Friday, November 12, we returned to the location of Unfolding on the Meewasin Trail, below Spadina and Avenue B.
Friday, November 5, we performed Tipping Point 2.0 at the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan site. We revisited the themes of Tipping Point, using the seating, stairs and stage, with lighting and an audience!
Friday, October 29, we performed at the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan site. On the eve of the COP 26 world climate conference, we returned to our theme of Tipping Point.
Friday, October 15 and October 22. We performed at the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan site!
Friday, November 5, we performed Tipping Point 2.0 at the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan site. We revisited the themes of Tipping Point, using the seating, stairs and stage, with lighting and an audience!
Friday, October 29, we performed at the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan site. On the eve of the COP 26 world climate conference, we returned to our theme of Tipping Point.
Friday, October 15 and October 22. We performed at the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan site!
Friday, October 8, at Boffins, U of S campus.
Friday, October 1, at Boffins. A beautiful setting, for our thirty minute score of 2 X 3 flocking. A stand at the very beginning. Definite cohesion between the dancers in this space!
Friday, September 24 at 7 pm, in front of Victoria School on Broadway!
Friday, October 1, at Boffins. A beautiful setting, for our thirty minute score of 2 X 3 flocking. A stand at the very beginning. Definite cohesion between the dancers in this space!
Friday, September 24 at 7 pm, in front of Victoria School on Broadway!
August 30, 2021
Friday, September 17. We returned to the stairs by the Traffic Bridge and the theme directed by Haleh Mirmiri, Tipping Point 1, also known as Flowness. With an audio track by Miki, and costumes. (First presented at the Remai WEGO Aug. 29, 2021)
August 20, and 27, we returned to the Torres sculpture, and the stairs beside the traffic bridge, near the Remai.
Friday, August 13, on the stairs near the Traffic Bridge. Directed by Haleh Mirmiri, we worked on themes of water and flow.
August 20, and 27, we returned to the Torres sculpture, and the stairs beside the traffic bridge, near the Remai.
Friday, August 13, on the stairs near the Traffic Bridge. Directed by Haleh Mirmiri, we worked on themes of water and flow.
Friday, July 30, in Friendship Park at the bottom of Broadway Bridge, near the sculpture of Gabriel Dumont on his horse.
Friday, July 23, we were back in City Hall Square, near the fountain. Flocking! Special guest performers!
Friday, July 16, we performed at old Farmers Market Square. We worked on the stand, or small dance. That became part of our performance score.
Friday, July 9, we explored "contactless contact" in Optimist Park. Travelling, and bringing the camera with us. Proximity, sensation, support... How might we embody contact principles safely?
Friday, July 23, we were back in City Hall Square, near the fountain. Flocking! Special guest performers!
Friday, July 16, we performed at old Farmers Market Square. We worked on the stand, or small dance. That became part of our performance score.
Friday, July 9, we explored "contactless contact" in Optimist Park. Travelling, and bringing the camera with us. Proximity, sensation, support... How might we embody contact principles safely?
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Friday, July 2, under Broadway Bridge. We thought the freakish heat dome (the flip side of the polar vortex?) called for a new adventure in dance improv. Wild Card Movement meets... beachprov?! The irresistible lure of the water – a tragedy?
Friday, June 25, Return to Sturdy Stone Plaza! We rediscover the performance.
Friday, June 18, Sturdy Stone Plaza, 7:30-9PM: 7 dancers joined the Global UnderScore, from the heart of downtown Saskatoon.
Friday, June 25, Return to Sturdy Stone Plaza! We rediscover the performance.
Friday, June 18, Sturdy Stone Plaza, 7:30-9PM: 7 dancers joined the Global UnderScore, from the heart of downtown Saskatoon.
Va-et-Vient by Jose Luis Torres
Friday, June 11. Movement improvisation performance with the installation, Va-et-Vient by Jose Luis Torres! 8:30-9:00pm
Saturday, June 5, DANCING near the Ting Pagoda, River Landing, 3:30-5pm.
Friday, June 4, Sturdy Stone plaza, 8:30pm. The "whatever-the-fuck you want" score while the summer muscle cars cruise by. Themes of concealment and 'revealment'.
Friday, May 28, we performed at City Hall Square, 7-7:30. Themes of death and birth played out beside the cenotaph (currently undergoing reconstruction!)
Saturday, May 22, postponed from Friday, May 21 to make room for winter winds. We danced Saturday, 3:30 pm at the old Farmer's Market Square, in a glorious lane of apple blossoms.
Friday, June 4, Sturdy Stone plaza, 8:30pm. The "whatever-the-fuck you want" score while the summer muscle cars cruise by. Themes of concealment and 'revealment'.
Friday, May 28, we performed at City Hall Square, 7-7:30. Themes of death and birth played out beside the cenotaph (currently undergoing reconstruction!)
Saturday, May 22, postponed from Friday, May 21 to make room for winter winds. We danced Saturday, 3:30 pm at the old Farmer's Market Square, in a glorious lane of apple blossoms.
Friday, May 15, we met in 'the grass amphitheatre', beside the Ting and the Meewasin trail in Riversdale. Bright orange jumpsuits on the green grass with a score of silence!
Saturday, May 8, KSAMB Dance Company did our Saturday Dance OUTside roving performance in Optimist Park, near 19th Street and Ave J, a space we have been using for dance for the last decade, and weekly in all weather since the beginning of the pandemic.
Friday, May 7, we met in Optimist Park, which was under threat of destruction, for a performance from 8 to 9 pm.
Friday, April 30, there was no performance as we all watched Kyle and ecoaborijanelle's collaborative show for Free Flow's International Dance Week series https://youtu.be/YSlY3es56_0
After, we met in Victoria Park for feedback and a short improvisation.
Saturday, May 8, KSAMB Dance Company did our Saturday Dance OUTside roving performance in Optimist Park, near 19th Street and Ave J, a space we have been using for dance for the last decade, and weekly in all weather since the beginning of the pandemic.
Friday, May 7, we met in Optimist Park, which was under threat of destruction, for a performance from 8 to 9 pm.
Friday, April 30, there was no performance as we all watched Kyle and ecoaborijanelle's collaborative show for Free Flow's International Dance Week series https://youtu.be/YSlY3es56_0
After, we met in Victoria Park for feedback and a short improvisation.
Friday, April 23, 7 pm, City Hall North side. More contemplative.
Fridy, April 9, we danced the second time under the Broadway Bridge, in the dark, with lights. 8:30-9 pm.
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Friday, March 26, Spacing the Square! A beautiful exercise in shared and personal space and responsibility, in the Old Farmer's Market Square.
Friday, March 19, 2021, 9-9:30 pm. We wanted to play in the dark, a night time urban adventure, and we did. Powerful themes emerged, including shame and voicing. Many thanks to the passersby who stopped and watched!
Friday, March 12, 7 pm to 7:30: Wild Card Movement On the Loose! The Pumphouse, Spadina and Ave A.
Friday, March 5, we gathered to mark the end of a year of dancing outdoors in City Hall Square with a score of silence. Way to go, team! Friday Night Improv! Be Lonely! To The Heart! Nuit de Couleurs! Wild Card Movement!
Friday, February 26, from 7 pm to 7:30, the public were invited to view our process. We were 8, physically distanced, masked dancers, and three people came to observe from a safe distance.
Friday February 19, 8–10 pm, NUIT DE COULEURS! A two hour, moving dance and lighting installation sponsored by Production Lighting. Many thanks to all who helped, and to the 60+ people who visited and participated, while observing pandemic restrictions!
Nuit de Couleurs, February 19
Nuit de Couleurs, February 19
Friday, February 12
Polar Vertex, second challenge, on the theme of Love!
Polar Vertex, second challenge, on the theme of Love!
Friday, February 5
Polar Vertex, first challenge!
(No video was recorded–the camera froze)
Polar Vertex, first challenge!
(No video was recorded–the camera froze)
Friday, January 29
Resilience– we got through a week of dancing and performing in arctic conditions, we're ready for anything!
Resilience– we got through a week of dancing and performing in arctic conditions, we're ready for anything!
Friday, January 22
Presence
Inhabiting three spaces. Focus.
See video above...
Presence
Inhabiting three spaces. Focus.
See video above...
Friday, January 15, 2021
Connections
Connections within the performance, with the audience, to our society, our past... Experiments with lights.
Connections
Connections within the performance, with the audience, to our society, our past... Experiments with lights.
Friday, January 1, 2021
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
Friday, December 18
Spaced in the Square
Spaced in the Square
Friday, December 11
Awareness in the Square.
Awareness in the Square.
Friday, December 4
Coats. Costumes and... character? Narrative? Adventure!
Coats. Costumes and... character? Narrative? Adventure!
Friday, November 27
Week 2 of Duos
Exploring the dynamics and possibilities of two. With special guest Mitchell Larson!
Week 2 of Duos
Exploring the dynamics and possibilities of two. With special guest Mitchell Larson!
Friday, November 27
Friday, November 20
Week 1 of Duos
Week 1 of Duos
Friday November 13
Investigating the power of the pause, of stillness.
Investigating the power of the pause, of stillness.
Friday, November 6
In collaboration with RAYMON MONTALBETTI!
Raymon is an educator dedicated to making the impossible possible.
Actor, director, and artistic director of AmoK Theatre Lab Vienna, Austria (1972 -1980.)
Participant at Grotowski’s “University of Research” in Wroclaw, Poland.
Raymon is known and appreciated for his radical teaching at E.D. Feehan and at the U of S.
"In everyday life, "if" is a fiction, in the theatre "if" is an experiment. In everyday life, "if" is an evasion, in the theatre "if" is the truth. When we are persuaded to believe in this truth then the theatre and life are one ... when we experience the work as play, then it is not work anymore. A play is play.” ― Peter Brook
In collaboration with RAYMON MONTALBETTI!
Raymon is an educator dedicated to making the impossible possible.
Actor, director, and artistic director of AmoK Theatre Lab Vienna, Austria (1972 -1980.)
Participant at Grotowski’s “University of Research” in Wroclaw, Poland.
Raymon is known and appreciated for his radical teaching at E.D. Feehan and at the U of S.
"In everyday life, "if" is a fiction, in the theatre "if" is an experiment. In everyday life, "if" is an evasion, in the theatre "if" is the truth. When we are persuaded to believe in this truth then the theatre and life are one ... when we experience the work as play, then it is not work anymore. A play is play.” ― Peter Brook
Friday, October 30
A special edition, with video projections and audio by Miki and Nicole. A group of dance improvisers creates a half-hour of daring and cohesive improvised performance in Saskatoon City Hall Square.
A special edition, with video projections and audio by Miki and Nicole. A group of dance improvisers creates a half-hour of daring and cohesive improvised performance in Saskatoon City Hall Square.
Friday, October 23
Friday, October 16
Friday, October 16
Friday, October 9
We made a short promo video from the footage taken on this Friday.
We made a short promo video from the footage taken on this Friday.
Friday, October 2
Friday, September 25
Friday, September 18
(Friday, September 11– a weekend off for dance meditation at Emma Lake)
Friday, September 4
Friday, August 28
Friday, August 21
Friday, August 14- Pakistan Independence Day, with a visit by the Mayor.
Friday, August 7- KSAMB's Friday Night Improv resumes, with what turns out to be the first performance of Wild Card Movement.
During July of 2020 KSAMB Dance Company, having obtained permission from the City of Saskatoon, performed To the Heart, a one hour, three person show on Fridays in City Hall Square.
In March, 2020, KSAMB Dance Company's Friday Night Improv group began meeting every Friday in City Hall Square, from 6 pm to 7:30, to practise ensemble dance improvisation skills. We made a video of work we did with poet Laura Edna Lacey: Be Lonely
With dance studios closed, we lowered the health risk by keeping our events outdoors where conditions provide maximum ventilation – and opportunities to extend our site-specific practice. We advocate for Presence, Love, and Resilience in our dance, as a participatory road to good, healthy, risk-taking entertainment.
Friday, September 25
Friday, September 18
(Friday, September 11– a weekend off for dance meditation at Emma Lake)
Friday, September 4
Friday, August 28
Friday, August 21
Friday, August 14- Pakistan Independence Day, with a visit by the Mayor.
Friday, August 7- KSAMB's Friday Night Improv resumes, with what turns out to be the first performance of Wild Card Movement.
During July of 2020 KSAMB Dance Company, having obtained permission from the City of Saskatoon, performed To the Heart, a one hour, three person show on Fridays in City Hall Square.
In March, 2020, KSAMB Dance Company's Friday Night Improv group began meeting every Friday in City Hall Square, from 6 pm to 7:30, to practise ensemble dance improvisation skills. We made a video of work we did with poet Laura Edna Lacey: Be Lonely
With dance studios closed, we lowered the health risk by keeping our events outdoors where conditions provide maximum ventilation – and opportunities to extend our site-specific practice. We advocate for Presence, Love, and Resilience in our dance, as a participatory road to good, healthy, risk-taking entertainment.
