workshop SERIES

The Peek Fest Workshops Series covers a range of exciting topics, and is designed to provide substantial training opportunities to local arts workers. We are so excited to welcome 4 workshop hosts who are leaders in their respective fields and have so much to offer. Come have fun, try new things, and learn in a group setting.
​
All workshops will take place in-person at Intrepid Theatre Club, 2-1609 Blanshard, in Victoria.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:  For specific accessibility details for each Peek Fest workshop, please visit the Peek Fest Accessibility Page. 
PEEK FEST ACCESS PROGRAM
Impulse Theatre, and Peek Fest, seeks to create an anti-oppressive and queer-positive space for artists within the community.​ Impulse Theatre is pleased to offer up to 2 spots in each workshop free of charge to arts workers who identify as queer, trans, non-binary, Indigenous, Black, a person of colour, neurodiverse, d/Deaf and/or disabled. 

​Deadline November 1.
THE INS AND OUTS OF A SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION with KAYLEIGH SANDOMIRKSY
THURSDAY November 4
​6:00pm - 8:00pm
Intrepid Theatre Club, 2-1609 Blanshard
​$20

Join one of UpintheAir’s Resident Curators Kayleigh Sandomirsky, as they go through a checklist of what to keep in mind when creating an application for a presenter. Whether it’s a festival setting or part of a season line up, get pointers and practical tips from a production standpoint. Come share experiences, learn a few things to include in your next proposal, and possibly discover future collaborators!
​
Workshop participants are invited to:
  • bring their preferred note taking equipment (laptop, notebook, etc)
MOVEMENT FOR ALL BODIES with TIFFANY TJOSVOLD
SUNDAY November 7
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Intrepid Theatre Club, 2-1609 Blanshard
$20

​Movement For All Bodies is an opportunity to focus on what movement feels like in our
own bodies. This dance based workshop led by Tiffany Tjosvold centres around a series of
structured improvisations designed to support participants in breaking out of movement
patterns and finding play within their practice.
Movement For All Bodies is appropriate for self-identified “dancers” and “non-dancers” alike. 

Workshop participants are invited to: 
  • attend wearing clothes they can easily move in - please no necklaces, scarves, long earrings, or other jewellery that could be easily snagged.
  • bring a water bottle.
EXPLORING ACCESSIBILITY IN MOVEMENT PRACTICES with TIFFANY TJOSVOLD
SUNDAY November 7
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Intrepid Theatre Club, 2-1609 Blanshard
$20

​Join Tiffany Tjosvold for a conversation around access and support as it relates to disability and neurodivergence within dance spaces. This session is designed for choreographers, directors, dance teachers, and anyone who would like to explore creating more access in their practices. 

Workshop participants are invited to:
  • bring their preferred note taking equipment (laptop, notebook, etc)
About the Instructor: 
Kayleigh Sandomirsky is a curator, stage/production manager, producer, and performer. .

Kayleigh’s curiosity for the curatorial process was piqued while mentoring under Cameron Mackenzie at Club PuSh, for whom she took over Associate Producer duties in the 2017. She also co-curated works for Resounding Scream Theatre as the Artistic Associate on Plunge, a platform for emerging artists to present works-in-development. Kayleigh’s recent work has been focused on curation with UpintheAir theatre, where she has been the Resident Curator since 2019. Since then, Kayleigh has production managed HIVE 2021: Flight Paths, which also took on a new digital format; stage managed TWObigsteps’s streamed show Departure; and toured Ying Yun with Wen Wei Dance.
About the Instructor:  
Tiffany Tjosvold is a multidisciplinary artist and arts educator whose practices are rooted in movement and play. She is a chronically ill individual whose lived experience informs her desire to create accessible artistic spaces. Tiffany is also the founder of Embrace Arts Foundation, a multidisciplinary arts organization for individuals of all abilities
Tiffany received her BFA in applied theatre at the University of Victoria. She also has her BEd in elementary education where the focus of her studies was inclusive educational practices. Tiffany trained with DanceAbility International (2013) and has since had the pleasure of learning from a wide variety of disabled dance artists across the continent. 
With Embrace, Tiffany co-created and performed in Embrace’s most recent pieces: S___PACE & Chilly. She also directed several of Embrace's shows including bloom and Sylvia & The Cephalopod. Outside of Embrace, Tiffany has been involved with projects including the Dance Alchemy Project and Impulse Theatre’s Wee Peeks.​
SPECIAL NOTE:
Participants can choose to attend one or both of Tiffany's workshops as they are designed as companions. 
THE PERFORMING BODY with ALEX THOMPSON
SATURDAY November 13
​12:00pm - 3:00pm
Intrepid Theatre Club, 2-1609 Blanshard
$30

The focus of this workshop is on injury management, proper warm-up practice, and breath for the performing artist. We will also address being an effective self-advocate within the healthcare system and myths about the body that are perpetuated in modern performing arts culture. The goal is to help participants understand the body from a physiological point of view and how that intersects with the traditional perspectives that are so common within the performing arts community.

Workshop Participants are invited to:
  • bring a notebook.
  • bring layers if needed (we won't be moving the entire time).
  • bring a water bottle (optional - used as a prop as well as hydration).
  • bring an exercise/yoga mat (optional).
​About the Instructor:
Alex (she/her) started dancing at the age of 3 and fell in love with movement. She spent her childhood in the dance studio and on the stage. She went on to complete a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Dance at York University in 2009. At York, she eagerly followed her classmates to their physiotherapy appointments and enjoyed studying for her anatomy exams. This love of movement (and anatomy) inspired a career in Physiotherapy. She has taken post-graduate courses in pilates, manual therapy, and pelvic health. She splits her clinical practice between Pelvic Health and Orthopaedics.
Alex has a special interest in working within the performing arts and sees many dancers, circus artists, singers, actors, and gymnasts. As a result, she also works frequently with hypermobility conditions. She currently sits as Treasurer on the Board of Healthy Dancer Canada and is a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS). She regularly offers workshops to local dancers that combine dance technique, anatomy, biomechanics, and safe dance practice.
SYNCHRONICITY: SEEKING HAPPY ACCIDENTS IN PERFORMANCE CREATION with STEWART LEGERE
SUNDAY November 14
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Intrepid Theatre Club, 2-1609 Blanshard
$40

Plans are great, but so is the unexpected.  How do we hold on only lightly to the ideas we love? How do we collide ideas with impulses? How do we embrace surprise? What happens when we startle ourselves? In this four hour hang-out, we’ll practice crystallizing our ideas before abandoning them. A conversation, “workshop” and experiment in creating personal, vibrant multi-disciplinary performances that move, surprise and delight. 

Workshop participants are invited to:
  • bring their preferred note taking equipment (laptop, notebook, etc).
  • bring whatever they need to do a day’s work: water, food, snacks, comfortable and warm clothing. 
​About the Instructor:
Stewart Legere is a multi-disciplinary artist from Punamukwatijk/Dartmouth. He is the Artistic Director of queer live-art company The Accidental Mechanics Group & Associate Artistic Director of Zuppa Theatre. His performances have been presented at theatres & festivals across Canada & the UK, including the Stages Festival (Halifax), OUTstages (Victoria), SummerWorks (Toronto), PuSh (Vancouver), FTA (Montreal), IMPACT (Kitchener), Chapter Arts Centre (Cardiff, Wales) and MAYFEST (Bristol, UK). He is a vocalist with orchestral pop outfit The Heavy Blinkers, & solo singer/songwriter. He composes music and sound for theatre and film, & is a solo singer/songwriter. He makes short films (RT Collective, SpiderWebShow, CBC). He is currently an artist-in-residence at The Theatre Centre in Toronto, leading the creation of a multidisciplinary work by artists across fields from every region of the country. An avid and passionate collaborator, his work is fascinated with sexuality, vulnerability, intimacy, the destruction of persona and the celebration of performance.
Questions? Email us at info@impulsetheatre.ca.
Impulse Theatre lives and creates on the traditional and unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples,.
COPYRIGHT 2021. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.