Queer Conscious Moving Bodies Workshop

This workshop invites Queer, Gender Non-Conforming and Trans embodiment, curiosity and creativity. Holding those ideas within the 2SLGBTQIA+ lens, these states of being can lead to the cultivation of community, trust and resilience. Sid employs a care-centered approach that provides agency to participants, inviting folx to explore together, and to discover and co-create in a nourishing, connective and celebratory environment. Practicing this method cultivates awareness and empathy, ultimately increasing well-being and resilience. Through collaborative movement, image-capturing, writing, sound- based, and relationship building activities, folx will learn and practice new ways of creating and expressing personally and in relation with others. The Queers will recognize the dancing artist within them, sourcing the Conscious Bodies Method created by Andrea Nann by facilitator Sid Ryan Eilers.

About Sid (they/them)

With a 23-year career spanning Canada, Europe, and New York, Sid Ryan Eilers is a multifaceted dance artist, excelling as director, choreographer, mentor, and performer. In 2014, Sid founded Aeris Körper Contemporary Dance, crafting over 18 immersive site-specific performances across Ontario. Achievements include residencies at Banff Centre, FLIGHT with Côté Danse/Crow’s Theatre, Open Space with the National Ballet of Canada, and participation in the COLOURS International Dance Festival with Shahar Binyamini in Stuttgart, Germany. Collaborating with renowned artists like Kathleen Rea, Andrea Nann and Peggy Baker, Eilers continues to push boundaries, addressing oppressive constructs through public engagement. They're also artistic staff at Canada's National Ballet School and founder of TRANScendARTS, supporting gender non-conforming children through creative dance.