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 WILD CARD MOVEMENT

This Friday, April 9, we dance again under the Broadway Bridge, in the dark. 8:30-9 pm.
Live! Physically distanced, maximum groups of 10 viewers.
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The pandemic dealt us a wild card, and we played it as innovative outdoor dance improvisation.

With dance studios closed, we have 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, and as a participatory road to good, healthy, risk-taking entertainment.

 An improvisation experiment open to the public, Wild Card Movement has been held weekly since October 2020, every Friday at 7 PM 
(usually, see updates above!). For the first 5 months it was held in Saskatoon City Hall Square. Since March, it  travels every week to a different Saskatoon public, outdoor space. Up to 10 dancers gather for an hour  to practice ensemble dance improvisation skills. Some weeks we have a collaborator or teacher. After, the public are invited to view our process, a half hour presentation, observing pandemic restrictions. We video our 1/2 hour improvisations and gather to view and critique our work every week, outdoors projected on to the side of a building in when weather permits, and online in winter.

​This is Wild Card Movement.

LIVE. Puzzle-solving, meaning-making, listening and celebrating!
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Free, but we appreciate a donation to help cover our expenses. E-transfer to ksambdance@gmail.com.

Friday, March 26, Spacing the Square! A beautiful exercise in shared and personal space and responsibility, in the Old Farmer's Market Square.
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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!
PictureMarch 12, Wild Card Movement On the Loose! The Pumphouse, Spadina and Ave A.
Friday, March 12, 7 pm to 7:30: Wild Card Movement On the Loose! Old Saskatoon Market Square, near 19 Street and Avenue 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!
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Nuit de Couleurs, February 19
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Nuit de Couleurs, February 19
Friday, February 12
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Polar Vertex, second challenge, on the theme of Love!
Friday, February 5
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!
Friday, January 22
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.
Friday, January 1, 2021
The Nutcracker
Friday, December 18
Spaced in the Square
Friday, December 11
​Awareness in the Square.
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Friday, December 4
​Coats. Costumes and... character? Narrative? Adventure!
Friday, November 27
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Week 2 of Duos
​Exploring the dynamics and possibilities of two. With special guest Mitchell Larsen!
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Friday, November 27
​Friday, November 20
Week 1 of Duos
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Friday November 13
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
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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.
​Friday, October 23

Friday, October 16
Friday, October 9
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
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