UPCOMING

lifeDUETS ON TOUR

Karen and Allen Kaeja will be touring Lasterday to BC in June. Locations will be announced soon. With this new duet Lasterday, we explore how two individuals carry different memories and perceptions of the same events from their shared past. This concept delves into various aspects of their relationship, including their sense of timeline, emotional impacts, and interactions throughout their life journey, all through the lens of how they remember and interpret their shared history.

EMPTY PAGES / TOUCHX MUSIC VIDEO

Coming soon! The Empty Pages (TouchX) music video.

Thanks to Greg and Fran for making beautiful music together and instigating this project! Sometimes, concepts fuel a life time of work. First stop for this film was an icecave during a cozy February winter week. The next stop is Iceland in April to complete the imagery palette!  The estimated launch of the music video is this fall - stay tuned!

Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts Digital Now program, and the original team of the TouchX journey.

KAEJA ELEVATIONS® CERTIFICATION 1

Taught by internationally recognized, award-winning choreographer and dance film director Allen Kaeja, The Art of Flying is the first of 3 levels of certification for Kaeja Elevations® (KE), an approach to partnering where participants from all experience levels are on an equal playing field. Join Allen Kaeja as he teaches Kaeja Elevations®(KE)! KE is an approach to partnering where all genders, experience and physique are on a level playing field. Rooted in contact improvisation, KE relies on the architectural structure of two bodies interacting while complimented by gravity, momentum, propulsion, breath and flow.⁠ Once qualified, you will be an independently certified KE: Level One practitioner able to teach movers of all ages to work collectively to safely soar through the air and surpass their own expectations.

For more info and to register, go to the Pulse Studios website.

KAEJA CREATIVE INTENSIVE - KINDLING THE CREATIVE FIRE

During this two day dance making intensive, current investigations by each of the Kaeja's will be shared through their collaborative approach of listening, creating and inspiration.

Together, the participants will build a scored work with Karen and Allen, devising ensemble physical engagement and harnessing kinetic partnering, sensorial and theatrical investigations. Participants personal material will serve as kindling for the creative fire.

The intensive will culminate in a public sharing of the ensemble’s creation - Friday, May 24, 2024 at 5PM at Pulse Studios, Calgary.

All are welcome who are pre and professional dancers, individuals having related physical training or movement practice, plus a thirst for partnering, investigation and the creative process are encouraged to register!

MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS WITH CINNAMOON

Join CinnaMoon Collective for contemporary movement workshops designed to help you expand your unique voice through dance.

Nickeshia Garrick & Irma Villafuerte are offering 2 youth-centred workshops (15-18) and 2 adult-centred workshops (Dancers and movers 19+) for a pay-what-you-can fee.

The workshops are presented in partnership with dance Immersion.

Also, witness the first double-bill of the dance Immersion season, featuring the world premiere of Surrendered Spirits by CinnaMoon Collective and MÀSCARA an expanded work Pulga Muchochoma! At Berkeley Street Theatre, May 2nd- May 4th. Surrendered Spirits is a co-commission by curatorial and producing partners dance Immersion and Kaeja d’Dance. MÀSCARA is a dance Immersion commission.

lifeDUETs (ON TOUR)

Karen and Allen Kaeja are embarking on a Western Canada tour this spring with Ted Robinson’s ‘25 to 1’ and Hanna Kiel’s ‘Lasterday’ as part of their lifeDUET series.

A ‘Lasterday’ site specific film is in the works thanks to CCA Digital Now.

KITCHEN DANCES

Next Screening: March 31, 2024 (London, UK)

Kitchen Dances, the 5 film series, will have its long awaited premiere in 2024. Along with filmmaker extraordinaire Moze Mossanen, Karen and Allen Kaeja launched into co-producers - MAK DanceFilm Collective. Funded by the CCA Digital Now, our 5 short Kitchen Dances bring together an exciting team of 6 choreographers, 9 pro dancers and non-pro dancers, composers Phil Strong and Laurel MacDonald, and other film expert collaborators. Based on Porch View Dances, Kitchen Dances has a life of their own.

In January 2024, Kitchen Dances premiered at Dance Camera West Film Festival at the historic Barnsdall Art Park. Up Next: Kitchen Dances will be in a special screening at the Cannes Short Film Festival in London, UK on March 31st, 2024 at the Phoenix Cinema.

 

RESISTANCE-142466

A bold reimagining of Resistance to be re-named 142466.

The original choreography toured North America for seven years from 2000 through 2007, opening the Harbourfront Theatre’s 2000 Season. The choreography travelled from Mexico to the USA and across Canada with great success. Exploring the power of human spirit in the face of oppression and fear, 142466 personifies resilience and courage: six dancers and five benches on a sparse stage embody an environment of reflection, danger, and intimacy. 

Kaeja d’Dance is planning to premiere 142466 in the 2025/2026 season.