Newsletter September 2016 (Copy 02)

Uncategorized Sep 04, 2016

Welcome to MamaDances,

Thank you for choosing to receive this letter. Your interest is deeply appreciated. Hopefully you are receiving it in the right language. If not, please correct your profile. You can unsubscribe yourself or/and change the language, as you prefer.

J’espère que vous vous portez bien. Merci de continuer à recevoir cette infolettre. Votre présence est précieuse. Nous espérons que vous recevez cette infolettre dans la langue appropriée. Si ce n’est pas le cas, vous devrez mettre à jour votre profil, désinscrire et/ou changer votre préférence linguistique.

Dear friends, family, colleagues and dance enthusiasts,

I hope you have had a good summer and that your transition back to school and work are going smoothly. This always feels like the beginning of the year to me. Chelsea has started at a new daycare and Yoko is going into grade 5! MamaDances is in momentum! We head into iour second decade and to celebrate Quartier Danse has invited us to create a new choreography for the festival 2017!

I forgot to mention in the last newsletter that, I will be offering a weekly class in Skinner Releasing Technique at La Poele in Mile End starting September 9.

Great News! We have the big studio at UQAM to launch our season: Join us for the first MamaDances Season Launch Gathering on Sunday September 18!

MamaDances needs a new part part part time administrator. 20-40 hours per month. Interested candidates should get in touch with me at [email protected]

I hope to see you soon.
Lots of love to you and yours,

Eryn

Skinner Releasing Technique

Class will be taught in English and French:
Date: Fridays Sept 9 to Dec 16 (15 classes)
Time: 10-noon
Location: La Poele, 5333 Casgrain, Studio 307 (Mile End) * except classes on Sept 9 and Oct 27 will be held at StudioD.
Cost: 300$ (or 260$ if you register before Sept 9)
Drop-in 25$ (for those with experience only)
1 week ( Classes 1-5, 6-10 or 11-15) 100$
If you want to participate in all three weeks, you can pay in three instalments of 90$ Sept 9, Oct 14 and Nov 18. The best way to register is to send an e-transfer.

Please let me know if you will be joining me, by phone 514-585-8888 or email: [email protected] or

Skinner Releasing Technique is a dance training methodology combining technique with creative process, which is greatly influencing today's dancing aesthetics. By cultivating effortlessness, one begins letting go of unnecessary holding in the physical self, gaining flexibility, efficiency, freedom. Through guided imagery, music and hands-on partner studies the practice facilitates a deep kinesthetic experience of movement and in time a shedding of outer layers. It is an experiential, intuitive approach that utilizes imagery as a powerful tool for transformation. Open to all, with or without formal movement

training. skinnerreleasingnetwork.org or www.skinnerreleasing.com

Parent and Child Video Project
Still time to join in!

Thank you to those of you who have volunteered for our archiving project!

We will be beginning Sept 10.

If you participated in our Parent Child classes last year, we need your help!
We had the privilege of receiving a Canada Arts Council grant to develop the MamaDances pedagogy. The Council recognizes MamaDances to be a valuable idea and is encouraging the development of the pedagogy behind it in order to train more teachers in the MamaDances method.

For this purpose, we need to videotape classes and exercises. Thanks to all involved, we completed the filming of Mother-Baby Dance classes last spring. We’re now planning to shoot the Parent-Child pedagogy.

When:
Saturdays Sept 10, 17 and 24 at UQAM (840 Rue Cherrier )
Sundays Sept 11, 18, 25 at Studio D (5445 Rue Gaspé)
10–11 am

Please let us know your availabilities as soon as possible if you’d like to participate!

Thank you for your time, trust and generosity! We’re beyond grateful for your support, as always!

Season Launch Party!

MamaDances Meetups Gathering and Season Launch

Sunday September 18

UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) , 840 Rue Cherrier

3:30-5:30 pm

A big open space for you and your children, friends, and family to move, share, talk, play, meet and greet. This will be a great opportunity to reunite with friends or make new ones! Hoops, balloons, musical instruments and other fun stuff will be provided.

Registration for Fall MamaDances Classes

Some of the classes are filling up fast and space is limited, so reserve your place now!
Participation is time sensitive. Children grow quickly and babies grow even faster.

Recommend us to a friend and get 10% off your registration for a session OR one free drop-in class.

Prenatal Dance Workshop

Thursdays 5:30-6:45 pm beginning October 6
Connect with your baby, move, share.
This class is designed to include meditation, somatic education and choreographed dance sequences.

More info

MamaDances Welcomes Two New Teachers!

Professional dancer, Marilyne St-Sauveur has performed in pieces by choreographer Marie-Julie Asselin, Marie Béland, Lynda Gaudreau, Frédérick Gravel, Emmanuel Jouthe, OSEZ!/Karine Ledoyen, Dean Makarenko, Andrew Tay, Katie Ward as well as for La 2e Porte à Gauche. Her projects have taken her throughout Quebec and Canada, and also to the USA, France, England and Belgium. Awarded by both Cégep de Saint-Laurent and Université du Québec à Montréal, Marilyne St-Sauveur has taught at Département de Danse du Cégep de Saint-Laurent for over ten years. Most recently, with the company DanseCarpeDiem she is sharing her passion for dance with the eldery. After participating with her young boy in one of Eryn’s Parent Child Dance sessions, with great enthusiasm Marilyne joins MamaDances !

Vanessa Arcega

Vanessa has been dancing for as long as she can remember, starting with classical ballet in Mexico. Throughout her journey, she has been exploring different styles : flamenco, jazz, African and Latin dances, contemporary dance, corporate dance shows, etc. Her objective was not to become a professional dancer, but to explore movement for each style, which is why she navigates through different types of dance. She is mainly interested in the pleasure and wellbeing that dancing provides—this is what matters most to her. In her approach, she is seeking pleasure through the appropriation of technique, as being aware of the importance of technique is essential to dance. She has been teaching Pilates since 2003, and for cardio, she teaches Zumba, Zumba kids and fitness classes for seniors.

For her, MamaDances’ classes offer a space for creativity, sharing and wellbeing for moms who want to move together with the little ones as a source of inspiration

Business development expertise needed!

MamaDances continues to look for a business development fairy godparent. We have lots of ideas and opportunities and need some advice to implement them.

Cross promotion and Sponsorship

It is our mandate to promote like-minded local businesses, artists and community endeavors on our Facebook page, web-site and newsletter. If you believe that what you do is valuable and relevant to our constituency and would like to propose a cross promotional opportunity with MamaDances, please contact [email protected].

Administrator needed

Once again it is time for our current administrator to move on to other adventures. We are looking for a bilingual candidate (FR and EN) who would be responsible for client communications.

MamaDances has a virtual office so the candidate would be working from home using his or her own phone and computer, be available one day a week consistently and check emails and phone messages everyday.
Interested parties should send their c.v. to [email protected]

Our Partners:
We could not do it without you. Thank you!

The Dance Department of Université de Québec à Montréal for the use of the studios.

Jonathon Cliff ( SRT photos 2000) Bruce Toombs (Gathereing and Prenatal 2013), Kinga Michalska (Circle of Moms 2016 ) Eryn Dace TRudell (Photo of Chelsea on Phone 2016)