LABS and LEARNING

Creation Lab

CREATION LAB 2017 unites like-minded artists seeking dialogue, exploration and investigation into Indigenous creation process, practice and performance methodology. Connecting international Indigenous artists, KDT’s LAB is an open cultural space to ask questions, challenge one’s own notions, open up to new possibilities that depart from euro-western methodologies.

Facilitators and participating artists work together to re-connect to cultural memory, create work generated from body, land and place.

Pow Wow Boot Camp

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre's (KDT) high-energy Powwow/dance training class a fun boot camp style workout for people interested in maximizing their physical fitness led by Artistic Director Santee Smith and select KDT instructors. KDT’s Powwow Boot Camp allows participants to learn or practice skills in Indigenous dance forms of Powwow and Onkwehon:we (Iroquois) social dances. These dances are performed in combination with exciting and challenging cardiovascular/physical conditioning exercises and contemporary dance.

Training

Each year Kaha:wi Dance Theatre creates a space for artists to deepen and transform their physical practice. The program supports process and discovery through activation and transformation of body, mind and space. KDT SI offers practical and philosophical tools for developing artists and artists who are focused on working from an embodied Indigenous knowledge base. Training methods include: world Indigenous dance and performance, contemporary techniques, physical training systems, performance training and artistic dialogue.