Sandra Botnen

12pm to 12:45pm: Handstands for Dancers with Sandra Botnen
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Handstands for Dancers with Sandra BotnenHer approach to dance remains influenced by her circus background but is more specifically driven by a love of handstands.Handstands serve Sandra's process both as a base to a unique movement vocabulary as well a teaching tool.Sandra believes going upside down causes our proprioceptive idiosyncrasies to fall out of our pockets like loose change giving way to a creative journey through motion, emotion and human anatomy.

Sandra Botnen is a choreographer, teacher and dancer working nationally and internationally.After an exciting 13-year career as a performer touring the world with Cirque du Soleil, Notre Dame de Paris and presenting her own repertoire of solos, she turned her focus towards choreography and teaching.

The Dancestreams teams will be performing pieces by choreographers Caroline Fitzner, Sandra Botnen and Cori Caulfield.

This incredible show was created by dancer/choreographer Sandra Botnen.She was formerly with the world renowned Cirque du Soleil, in Vancouver's Dancing on the Edge and with famed French musical Notre Dame de Paris.

Teachers: Sandra Botnen

It's fitting that composer-playwright Clayton Carrigan and choreographer Sandra Botnen are rehearsing their new show at this quiet, calming place off West Hastings Street, where the delicate scent of chai wafts through the air.
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Botnen and Carrigan might both be comfortable discussing mudras and chakras, but an exploration of all things yogic their multidisciplinary production is not.
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"The journey started in India, where I was studying devotional music," explains Carrigan, sitting on a floor cushion next to Botnen at Unlimited Yoga.
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"Yoga was how I maintained myself as a performer on the road," Botnen explains."It changed how I move and how I wanted to portray movement.It affected me creatively."

Her interest in eastern spirituality led to her dabbling in Bharata Natyam, a classical form from India that she draws on in the show.Botnen describes her choreography as alternately balletic, acrobatic, sparse, and meditative.
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With so many diverse elements, Carrigan and Botnen are confident the performance will appeal to people of all ages.

Leigh Evans | Sandra Botnen | Laure Ottmann | Ivo Dimchev
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Once living in Montreal, Sandra Botnen performed in many Studio 303 Vernissages between contracts with Cirque du Soleil and Notre-Dame de Paris.Sandra currently lives in Vancouver where she maintains her fascination with movement as a teacher and choreographer.She teaches regular classes at Cirkids (Vancouver's Circus training centre).Current research projects include working with computer animation as an extension of the dancer's expression.As choreographer, she also maintains a show in Shanghai called ERA that runs until 2010 and features the Shanghai Acrobats.

12h à 12h45: Handstands for Dancers avec Sandra Botnen (en anglais)
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Handstands for Dancers avec Sandra Botnen (en anglais) Her approach to dance remains influenced by her circus background but is more specifically driven by a love of handstands.Handstands serve Sandra's process both as a base to a unique movement vocabulary as well a teaching tool.Sandra believes going upside down causes our proprioceptive idiosyncrasies to fall out of our pockets like loose change giving way to a creative journey through motion, emotion and human anatomy.

Sandra Botnen is a choreographer, teacher and dancer working nationally and internationally.After an exciting 13-year career as a performer touring the world with Cirque du Soleil, Notre Dame de Paris and presenting her own repertoire of solos, she turned her focus towards choreography and teaching.

Choreography by Sandra Botnen
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ABOUT SANDRA BOTNENSandra Botnen is a choreographer, teacher and former dancer working nationally and internationally.After an exciting 13-year career as a performer touring the world with Cirque du Soleil, Notre Dame de Paris and presenting her own repertoire of solos, she turned her focus towards choreography and teaching.Her approach to dance remains influenced by her circus backgound but is more specifically driven by a love of handstands.Handstands serve Sandra's process both as a base to a unique movement vocabulary as well a teaching tool.Sandra believes going upside down causes our proprioceptive idiosyncrasies to fall out of our pockets like loose change.

Sandra teaches her popular Handstands for Dancers workshops in Montreal at Studio 303 and Concordia University.In Vancouver Sandra is a regular teacher and choreographer at Cirkids school of Circus arts.She also choreographed ERA, the Shanghai based Multi Media show featuring the Shanghai acrobats running until 2010.Sandra also writes lyrics for film and live shows.Her songs are currently heard in the IMAX film, Journey of Man, Alegria ,the Film, Deliruim Stadium Concert Tour, and ERA in Shanghai.

Choreography by Sandra Botnen
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ABOUT SANDRA BOTNENSandra Botnen is a choreographer, teacher and former dancer working nationally and internationally.After an exciting 13-year career as a performer touring the world with Cirque du Soleil, Notre Dame de Paris and presenting her own repertoire of solos, she turned her focus towards choreography and teaching.Her approach to dance remains influenced by her circus backgound but is more specifically driven by a love of handstands.Handstands serve Sandra's process both as a base to a unique movement vocabulary as well a teaching tool.Sandra believes going upside down causes our proprioceptive idiosyncrasies to fall out of our pockets like loose change.

Sandra teaches her popular Handstands for Dancers workshops in Montreal at Studio 303 and Concordia University.In Vancouver Sandra is a regular teacher and choreographer at Cirkids school of Circus arts.She also choreographed ERA, the Shanghai based Multi Media show featuring the Shanghai acrobats running until 2010.Sandra also writes lyrics for film and live shows.Her songs are currently heard in the IMAX film, Journey of Man, Alegria ,the Film, Deliruim Stadium Concert Tour, and ERA in Shanghai.