Improvising the Sensorium with Amanda Acorn
Winchester Street Theatre
The sensorium refers to the human sensory apparatus and related mental faculties considered as a whole. Using somatic movement, experiential anatomy, and playful improvisation we will explore sensory stimuli and their relationship to embodiment, to drive our movement explorations. We will work through the body to articulate the sensory system, attuning to the concrete, through our anatomy as well as the unfamiliar, imagined, and imperceptible. We will play with the relationship between body and environment, inside and outside, self and other.
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Photo by Talia Shipman
Amanda Acorn
Amanda Acorn is a choreographer and artist based in Tkaronto, Canada. She creates intimate, sensorial encounters and responsive environments for shared embodied exchange. Her newest group work, no place, explores the body in dialogue with the material world through emergent, relational practice and an evolving construction of space and place. She is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts and the School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s Professional Traning Program. Her work has been presented in venues throughout Toronto including the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Citadel, Videofag, Toronto Dance Theatre, Summerworks Festival, The Music Gallery and many site-specific locations in collaboration with ArtSpin. She has toured her work at festivals and venues across Canada including the Festival TransAmériques in Montréal, Workers Arts Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Festival of New Dance in St John’s, Dancer’s Studio West in Calgary, as well as the Push Festival and Gold Saucer Studio in Vancouver. Amanda is a passionate facilitator of movement and works to build spaces for care through the intersections of her art practice and her work as a movement guide, teaching contemporary technique, improvisation and Pilates. She is furthering her study of the dialogue between bodies through an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies from York University as well as the practice of Gestalt Psychotherapy through the Gestalt Institute of Toronto.