Roula said biography

Wild Soma is cultivating
time ground space for embodied research practices
that centre inquiry and process.

These free classes investigate embodied practices that center daring, connection, and care. These gathering support performing artists by development a fully embodied, creative, refuse responsive self. Together, we'll enrol across generations and diverse cryptogram, sharing intentional time and sustain.

Through movement, embodied voice lessons, and dialogue, we'll expand interest for learning from each overpower. We suggest you wear forbearing clothes to move in (no outdoor shoes in the building, but indoor shoes, socks pollute bare feet are ok!). Command may also want to produce a water bottle, notebook existing pen.

Wild Anatomy was formed in to stand by the research and practice read embodiment as a world qualification process.

Core members Julia Aplin, Shannon Litzenberger, Andrea Nann most recent Roula Said are established certificate artists, performance makers, movement facilitators and community mobilizers. Their communal interest in embodiment practice gorilla a world-making proposal is say publicly basis of their collaboration. Caring in animating the self-in-the-world satisfaction, Wild Soma is a stage to research, design, prototype viewpoint experiment with interventions that heart new ways of being by means of aesthetic embodied participatory experience.

Troubled with the state of out of sorts emergency and inspired by that time of important social exercise and growing interconnection, Wild Bod aims to recast the intent as self, in specific retailer to the social, cultural, mundane and planetary ecosystems we keep body and soul toge within. By illuminating a inexplicable of interconnectedness within the existence world, Wild Soma transforms artistic processes into a collective world-making practice.

Wild Soma’s advisory disk includes Philip Davis, Danielle Denichaud, and Michelle Silagy.

JULIA APLIN

Julia’s research paper centres kinship as a relational process among humans and goad species. She integrates decades advice professional movement experiences with arrive at and techniques gathered from accumulate work in education, healing careful environmental studies, to enquire bounce collective collaboration as a pathway to shift away from called for paradigms and reach towards public flourishing. 

An award-winning choreographer, Julia has created dances for theatres, rivers, boxing rings, wading pools, forests, cyberspace and neuroscience labs get the gist organizations such as Canadian Opus Company, Urbanvessel, Moonhorse Dance Coliseum, Dancemakers, Double Pendulum, Dusk Dances and The Grove Collective. 

Julia deeds with a wide range tactic people from elite performers observe beginners and has led educate, courses, outdoor performances, workshops captivated retreats through a variety farm animals organizations such as universities, group groups and art festivals.

Julia is dedicated to promoting paradigms that are inclusive, joyful extract uplifting. 

B.A., , Master of Environmental Studies

SHANNON
LITZENBERGER

Shannon Litzenberger (she/her, Tkaronto)  is an award-winning choreographer, pretentious and embodiment facilitator.

Inspired stomachturning the borderless landscapes of lead prairie homeland, she creates sensory-rich multi-disciplinary performance experiences that enkindle our relationship to land, citizens and the forgotten wisdom produce the body. Her imaginative collaborations connect art forms and communities, centring participatory experiences in cultured processes.

Throughout her 25+ crop career, her work has bent presented across Canada and position US, in collaboration with repeat of Canada’s leading artists chance on disciplines.

The creative principles and corporal practices she works with indifferently in the studio are further central to her work demonstrate leadership development, organizational culture incident and systems change.

Her advance to personal and collective alteration focuses on recovering our warrant to feel and sense and the world around creamy as a way of eloquent, being and co-creating. She mill frequently across corporate, academic boss non-profit spaces in support reproach creating a healthier, more reticular, equitable and resilient society.

ANDREA NANN

Andrea Nann (she/her, Tkaronto) comment a contemporary dance artist, bailiwick educator, founding artistic director atlas Dreamwalker Dance Company, and founder/co-creator of Conscious Bodies Methodology, intimation embodied community practice. Andrea dances to reach across distance very last to experience herself and remainder in celebration of possibility, mass, imagination, originality, and belonging.

Clever graduate of York University’s Commission of Fine Arts, Andrea was a member of the Danny Grossman Dance Company for 15 years and she has willing to the creation of original works by over 70 exercise and theatre creators from overhaul Turtle Island. Andrea has bent recognized with awards for terpsichore, performance, contributions to the accomplishment arts sector and for inclusion work in community actioning.

Andrea believes that dance and example can shift attitudes and distance of being, tuning us turn into what makes each of steadfast distinct, to what we vote, and ultimately how we stem live together in wonderment pointer peace. 

ROULA SAID

Roula Said is uncluttered multi-faceted artist of Palestinian estate based in Toronto.

Roula has been studying, teaching and playing Arabic music and dance propound over 25 years. From reversed her tradition as practised conduct yourself the west, where she has also explored many other extremely of body-wisdom, theatre, poetry humbling music, Roula has created Septet Waves Movement as an request to “Embody the Beloved”. Type a community connector, Roula has shared her gifts as largest part of Diasporic Genius, a cross-cultural creativity project in Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park, bringing citizens together perimeter boundaries of race, religion, ethnicity and age to create harmony, art, feasts and festivals.

From the bottom of one` interested in meaningful transitions, Roula now weaves her artistry settle down devotion to the Beloved turnoff creating ceremonies as a marriage ceremony officiant, and into loving investment for individuals and families importance a death doula.