Being and Becoming: Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving
With Roula Said, Julia Aplin, Shannon Litzenberger and Andrea Nann
June 28 - July 3, 2026
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About the Presenters
Roula Said
Roula Said is a singer, dancer, musician, actor and poet of Palestinian heritage based in Toronto, Canada. Roula has been studying, teaching and performing Arab music and dance for over 25 years. From within her tradition as practiced here in the west (where she has also explored many other styles of movement, music, voice and […]
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Julia Aplin
Julia Aplin has been studying and practicing movement for over 45 years. She has an intense curiosity about embodiment as a felt experience of being alive with the world. Julia is a multi-disciplinary artist, foundationally a dancer, also a choreographer, a theatre director, a costume designer, partly a musician, a one-time playwright, sometimes an actor, […]
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Shannon Litzenberger
Shannon Litzenberger is a choreographer, facilitator, and creative guide whose work explores how embodied practice can awaken imagination, deepen connection, and support renewal. Rooted in her twenty-five-year career as an award-winning dance artist and artistic director, her workshops invite participants to engage creativity as a living, relational process — one that integrates body, mind, and […]
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Andrea Nann
Andrea Nann is a contemporary dance artist, arts educator, founding artistic director of Dreamwalker Dance Company, and founder/co-creator of Conscious Bodies Methodology, an embodied community practice. Andrea dances to reach across distance and to experience herself and others in celebration of possibility, plurality, imagination, originality, and belonging. A graduate of York University’s Department of Fine […]
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