Movement into Matter

Familiar objects - whether they are tools that we use or materials that we shape - have the potential to hold and enfold the emotional, merging with the mover. Wielding a hammer, a keyboard, a touchscreen or a piece of clay- the hybridity between the human body and the sphere of objects to which we adhere on a daily basis is made palpable in this session. Working with clay, participants will move in ways that shape the material before then, in turn allowing their movements to be shaped by the material demands of the clay. This playful intersection of artist and matter is intended to evoke a strong sense of collaboration between the human and the non-human performer, allowing us to perceive the clay as an actor in our improvisations bringing its own unique agency into the room.

about the artist

Johnny Forever Nawracaj is a nonbinary, Polish­born performance and media artist currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Their work weaves surrealist narrative through installation, sculpture, video, gesture and drag-inflected performance to explore love, loss, and labour with a particular investment in these themes as a part of radical queer and trans cultural production.

who is this for?

No previous performance experience necessary. This session calls out to all who are curious about playing with movement and clay.

Please wear comfortable clothing that you won't mind getting into contact with clay. There will be options to work with the clay either at a table or on the floor, or in other ways as access needs arise. Please communicate specific access needs to the Love-In team via email - [email protected]

Regular session price is $35. Our Community Access Program will provide reduced rates. Use discount code REDUCED for 25% off, and SOLIDARITY for 50% off. To receive the ACCESS price of 100% off, please email [email protected]

Coordinating Bodies/Objects

Our time together will unfold in two parts. It is guided by establishing unconventional shared logics between a body and an object (electrical wires).

Part One: Working through movement coordinations we will dance to morph between simple and complex patterns. We will traverse across the room to music. A phrase combining multiples of these elements may emerge.

Part Two: How does our body become an object? Or vice versa, How does an object become our body? Using faulty electrical wires we will work in relation with these objects to begin understanding these questions.

about the artist
danielle Mackenzie Long uses performance, new media and film to create work that surpasses gendered bodies through visual experimentation and expanded audience access. They hold gratitude to the stewards of the land that they currently reside on; the stolen and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations. Shifting between performing, producing and computational creation they have worked with Action at a Distance/Vanessa Goodman, Shion Skye Carter, self checkout, New Works, FORM, Plastic Orchid Factory, Notebook, and Jasmine Liaw among others.

Regular session price is $35. Our Community Access Program will provide reduced rates. Use discount code REDUCED for 25% off, and SOLIDARITY for 50% off. To receive the ACCESS price of 100% off, please email [email protected]

Social Choreography Lab

Social Choreography Lab hosts an environment for developing choreographic scores with and for social bodies. Social bodies is a term for all affective bodies in motion such as: humans, more-than-humans, plants, sites, places, materials, objects, atmosphere, and weather. Scores, here, can enact an event and, even without activation, appear poetic in text or design. They also hold potential for gesture and action; and act as parameters for engendering reciprocal relationality. 

Through movement exercises, guided improvisation, dancing with objects, score-reading and -writing participants will work to generate and uphold a specific motional relationship that decentralizes human choreographies.

about the artist

Lauren Runions (b. 1989) is a dance artist, choreographer, facilitator, and arts administrator based in Tkarón:to/Toronto and sometimes Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Lauren has choreographed site-specific works for MOCA, Nuit Blanche, Long Winter, Radiant Rural Halls, and Nocturne. As a dancer, they have most recently worked with Susannah Haight, pounds per square inch performance/Gerry Trentham, Christopher Willes & Adam Kinner, SLOW DANCE LAB/Sally Morgan, and Jacinte Armstrong.

who is this for?

This is a session for folks interested in movement and exploration through the performance of scores. Participants are invited to perform or witness as they desire. The session will be guided, but open for folks to interpret and move-through how they desire.

Regular session price is $35. Our Community Access Program will provide reduced rates. Use discount code REDUCED for 25% off, and SOLIDARITY for 50% off. To receive the ACCESS price of 100% off, please email [email protected]

un-tidaled

In the digital space, we will engage in a collective reading performance experiment.

Think durational performance meets speech act theory, meets “reading group”.

Participants are invited to bring one page critical/poetic readings discussing movement in any way or form. Sent prior to the facilitation, participants improvise the practice of collective reading together, while sporadically other participants may turn their cameras off to engage in a response-based durational movement exploration, then turn their cameras back on to participate in the reading and listening.

Redefining performance and roles of audienceship, this experiment offers the space to simply exist at your own pace while exchanging knowledge. Practicing the disjunctive autonomy of the body within the digital space, we create a time to play within the attunements and questions of “who is our research for?”

Digital interruptions happen by accident quite frequently in online meetings, so how can we sit with them in the light of a digital improvised performance, where the goal of the score is to simply listen.

When registering participants must email a picture or file of their one page reading to [email protected] by June 24, 2026.

about the artist
Jasmine Liaw is an interdisciplinary artist moving fluidly between roles of director, producer, designer, and curator in contemporary dance performance, new media, and experimental film. Evidenced in collaboration and community, her practice investigates fractal movement and language within transcultural narratives intersecting her Hakka-Chinese diaspora, queer temporalities and ecologies, and technological time displacement. Select presentations include Creative Body Institute with AADK Spain, MOCA Toronto, The Asian Arts & Culture Trust with Holt Renfrew, Northwest Film Forum (USA), Gallery 44, Images Festival, Interaccess, Pleasure Dome, Experimental Series - Salt Lake City (USA), Thessaloniki Cinedance International (Greece), and more.

who is it for?

Any level. For artists, poets, scholars, movers, and all enthusiasts. Access anywhere in your own space.

accessibility for participants

Join the session with a writing surface (notebook/journal/paper/device), writing/drawing device (pen, pencil, crayons, chalk, etc.), tech device to log into digital session (laptop, phone, etc.)

We will be using our voices, we encourage you to have access to water as needed.

We will start the session through sharing research tied to this experiment, and then explore the experiment through collective reading out loud together and off-camera performance, then end the session with a brief reflection session.

Regular session price is $35. Our Community Access Program will provide reduced rates. Use discount code REDUCED for 25% off, and SOLIDARITY for 50% off. To receive the ACCESS price of 100% off, please email [email protected]

DanceMore (Embody Dance) - TRANSlating the world into movement

DanceNow seeks to provide dance to everyone at every stage of their journey by approaching dance as a medium of understanding the world around us and our own internal experiences. The workshop will be part community building/creative research that supports all kinds of dance goals and artistic practices. It will include score building and process development for and by emerging artists. Participants will get to explore somatic driven movement, structured improvisation and learning experts of developing work. DanceNOW is the premier installment of embody dance, which will start in the fall of 2026, and will support emerging queer, trans and BIPOC emerging dance artists and youth in the GTA.

about the artist
Rowan-Muriel is a mixed-race Black, trans and queer dancer, choreographer and community worker living, working and learning in Tkaronto. Rowan-Muriel is a community worker with the George Chuvalo Neighborhood Center where he works in their trans/gender non-confirming youth drop in program. Rowan-Muriel is a 2026 ArtReach Community Arts Programming Grant ($10,000) to develop his non-profit, Embody Dance which seeks to provide industry relevant dance/performance art experience to LGBTQ, BIPOC emerging artists and youth. He has also facilitated the Toronto installment of self checkout, a dance and performance art program, through DanceWorks to provide youth with exposure to contemporary dance. Rowan-Muriel has choreographed for Dance Immersion and Dances for the Eilers Dance Theater in a variety of projects.

who is this for?

DanceNow is for any and all participants and reasonable accommodations can and will be made within the material for participants with:

Children, reduced mobility (mobility aids), sensory needs

It is within the mission to include everyone in art making however they can and wish to be included. This workshop is open to enthusiastic observers/supporters, partial participation and modified/adaptive choices.

Participants are encouraged to arrive with:

Comfortable moving clothes, pen/pencil/writing utensil, waterbottle, snacks as they see fit

Regular session price is $35. Our Community Access Program will provide reduced rates. Use discount code REDUCED for 25% off, and SOLIDARITY for 50% off. To receive the ACCESS price of 100% off, please email [email protected]

desire dance

Desire dance. A chance to meet a sweet home inside yourself. A chance to touch the parts of you that want to be held, heard, seen, and dance. Space to feel. To press into your own existence. To breathe, see, sweat, pulse, trance, and charge up. A continuous flow. A place to give a little… or a lot. Your chance to dance. Available to something big and small, simultaneously.

about the artist

Leelee Oluwatoyosi Eko Davis [they.them]

2 year old Moonwalker/breakdancer imitating music videos, a cultural dancer at my parents house parties to soca and calypso, playing mas at 12, finding techno disco parties in germany at 15….raving in the 90’s. All that to arrive in a dance studio for the first time at 19. A life of dancing, my eternal joy, my saviour, my heartbreak, my love.

who is this for?

No dance experience needed. A willingness to listen and try and enjoy is all that’s needed.

Regular session price is $35. Our Community Access Program will provide reduced rates. Use discount code REDUCED for 25% off, and SOLIDARITY for 50% off. To receive the ACCESS price of 100% off, please email [email protected]

looping impulses

This workshop explores impulse and instincts within the context of movement and sound creation as a method for composition. Participants will engage all senses through task based improvisation creating a group composition using live and recorded sound with a loop pedal, voice, and movement, guided by curiosity. 

This session includes a creation process 11:00am-4:00pm and relaxed performance opportunity 4:45pm-5:30pm.

about the artist

Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier is a queer, Métis, Franco-Manitoban based in Tkaronto. They are continuously discovering the role these intersecting identities play in their art as a dancer, choreographer and educator. Kéïta has a strong interest in combining dance with different mediums, including but not limited to music and theatre.

who is this for?

Movers, musicians, and those interested in exploring movement and sound through collaboration and performance. 

We will engage in task based exercises with sound and movement. Tasks will be adjusted based on who is in the room, making things as accessible as possible. Please specific access needs to the Love-In team via email [email protected]

Participants are encouraged to wear clothing they feel comfortable moving in. Layers in case you are cold. Knee pads if you are more comfortable using them. You are welcome to bring instruments or items you are curious about exploring sound with, no music experience necessary.

Regular session price is $55.

Our Community Access Program will provide reduced rates. Use discount code REDUCED for 25% off, and SOLIDARITY for 50% off. To receive the ACCESS price of 100% off, please email [email protected]