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Lecture-Workshop: Collaborative Journeys to Healthy Dance Practice (Andrea Downie, Maggie Morris, Karine Rathle)
While language and location can provide potential barriers to communication and collaboration, being open to establishing/nurturing unexpected connections can lead to meaningful relationships and outcomes. This session will explore communication and collaboration by first presenting the discoveries and strides gained through an intercontinental collaboration, and then leading a creative network building workshop for multidisciplinary conference participants.
Following the conference theme, this interactive workshop aims to share the value of collaboration, demonstrating how working together can enrich joint vision, organizational goals and aspirations, and support individual journeys. The following workshop endeavours to support the formation of new beginnings and connections for the conference participants through creative networking. The goal is to facilitate communication and strengthen networks between participants and disciplines. Multidisciplinary collaborations will be encouraged, requiring everyone's input/strengths to come up with creative solutions. Participants will work together during the workshop, and throughout the conference, to discuss healthy dance definitions, collaborative opportunities and a shared vision of the future of healthy dance practice. Dancers, dance educators, researchers, dance scientists and health professionals are all welcome to participate and share their respective ideas, experience and knowledge. |
Karine Rathle |
Karine is a dancer, teacher, choreographer and researcher in dance and dance science. Dance has been an integral part of Karine’s life since childhood, she developed a solid base in classical ballet at Pierre Laporte College. Since then, she has extended this experience to include Contemporary dance, argentinean tango, contact improvisation, modern dance, flamenco, argentinean folkloric dances. Karine is also a Pilates certified teacher and practices yoga regularly. She has extensive knowledge in the field of Somatics and integrates it to her own practice and teaching. She has a MSc degree in Dance Science from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London (UK). She has taught in renowned dance institutions in London such as Bird College, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Central School of Ballet.
Karine has lead numerous teacher training courses on different subjects such as verbal and tactile feedback, anatomy for the dance class, injury prevention, injury management, fitness and complimentary training, alignment, warming-up cooling down, nutrition for dancers, psychological skills training such as imagery, goal settings, self talk, confidence and motivational climates as well as the integration of somatic principales in dance training and performance. She is a Safe in Dance International (SiDI) registered provider. Her experience also includes leading a teacher training course for contemporary dancers in Cairo, Egypt called SEEDS which was funded by the EU. Karine lead all the Dance Science components of the training as well as Somatics and the final evaluation of the trainees. Karine presented her work at several international conferences, including IADMS and Healthy Dancer Canada. She has been a member of Healthy Dancer Canada since 2015, in 2016 she was elected Vice President and is the current president until 2020. Karine performed internationally and continues to create multidisciplinary and collaborative work. Her work is fuelled by an interest in creating a multidisciplinary, personal and authentic approach to the creation process. Extending beyond the perceived limits of the physical, Karine’s voyage of discovery aspires to integrate the movement, the image and the theatrical aspect in both her creation, and her performance of dance. |