Sunday, June 1 | 10:30 AM
Exhibition Park, 81 London Rd W
Inclement Weather Location: Guelph Youth Dance Studios, 42 Quebec St.
Attendance is P-W-Y-C by donation. Donate online here prior to attending, or at the event via cash or card. Recommended donation $5 / $10 / $15 / $20 / $25.
Photo above of Simik Komaksiutiksak by Alex Côté
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
We will ease into the final day of the festival by tuning into our breath and body in this workshop facilitated by Simik Komaksiutiksak. Join fellow community members for this grounding and energizing experience.
This workshop is a dance style workout, stretch, and meditation! Focusing on healing ourselves through breath and movement. 10 min meditation, 20 min workout and a 30 min stretch!
This workshop is suitable for any level of movement experience. No dance experience required. Individuals under the age of 14 are asked to be accompanied by a trusted adult/guardian.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Simik Komaksiutiksak is an artist from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut and now resides in Tio’Tia;ke, also known as Montreal. Their passion for dance emerged at an early age, later gravitating towards dance and circus arts. Simik learned most of their dance training in Ottawa, and began performing arts during their teen years. Simik is a contemporary dancer, circus artist, and a choreographer. Simik has appeared on the APTN documentary-series “Pulse”, modelled at the Indigenous Fashion Arts festival, and tours with Anowara Dance Theatre in the show Sky Dancers. Simik has worked and built relations with established Indigenous and non-Indigenous dancers and artists. Simik is the artistic director of “Anxiety”, their first upcoming dance production. Simik now works for The Arctic Rose Foundation as the Guest Artist Lead, where they teach dance, creative movement and expressive arts to youth all over Inuit Nunangat as a part of the Messy Book Program. Simik is also a part of the Arctic Rose Foundation’s training team, where they help train other Indigenous dancers and artists to go into the north, to continue a legacy of art and healing within our communities. Simik’s practice has an emphasis on developing a grounded and safe working space mentally, physically and spiritually. Simik’s desire is to explore how we release and free tensions through the expressive body, while connecting generational knowledge and bridging this into dance form and expression.