Norma Araiza
Expressive Arts Therapist at Hospice Toronto- Claim this Profile
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Ned Bobkoff
I recently became acquainted with Norma Araiza dance work when she performed as a guest artist at the Nozhem Theater at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and again down town at the Show Place Theater. Ms Araiza has a Yaqui background (Sonora, Mexico). Her work is both indigenously authentic and contemporaneously inspired. In fact, her use of silence, slow movement and arresting deer inspired imagery riveted attention. Mr Araiza is a true artist who knows her audience and acts accordingly.
Ned Bobkoff
I recently became acquainted with Norma Araiza dance work when she performed as a guest artist at the Nozhem Theater at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and again down town at the Show Place Theater. Ms Araiza has a Yaqui background (Sonora, Mexico). Her work is both indigenously authentic and contemporaneously inspired. In fact, her use of silence, slow movement and arresting deer inspired imagery riveted attention. Mr Araiza is a true artist who knows her audience and acts accordingly.
Ned Bobkoff
I recently became acquainted with Norma Araiza dance work when she performed as a guest artist at the Nozhem Theater at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and again down town at the Show Place Theater. Ms Araiza has a Yaqui background (Sonora, Mexico). Her work is both indigenously authentic and contemporaneously inspired. In fact, her use of silence, slow movement and arresting deer inspired imagery riveted attention. Mr Araiza is a true artist who knows her audience and acts accordingly.
Ned Bobkoff
I recently became acquainted with Norma Araiza dance work when she performed as a guest artist at the Nozhem Theater at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and again down town at the Show Place Theater. Ms Araiza has a Yaqui background (Sonora, Mexico). Her work is both indigenously authentic and contemporaneously inspired. In fact, her use of silence, slow movement and arresting deer inspired imagery riveted attention. Mr Araiza is a true artist who knows her audience and acts accordingly.
Experience
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Hospice Toronto
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Canada
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Expressive Arts Therapist
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Oct 2008 - Present
Working with people with life threatening illnesses as well as with people who have gone through loss. Grief and Bereavement Anticipatory loss Working with people with life threatening illnesses as well as with people who have gone through loss. Grief and Bereavement Anticipatory loss
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Artistic Director, Choreographer and Dancer
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1987 - Present
Tolmec Dance Theatre was founded in Mexico City in 1987 within the National University of Mexico in the Laboratory of Performing Arts. Since 1989 it made its home in Toronto, Canada. Its mandate is to look for the origins of the human being within the activity of dance and theatre. It searches for the original impulses, which have a heritage and come out in the creative process in a conscious manner. The fundamental principals of Tolmec Dance Theatre are based on the research that Norma Araiza and other colleagues of the Laboratory of Performing Arts did for two years and transformed into “representational art” (dance theatre performances with an anthropological view). These fundamentals can be seen in the work of Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba international theatre directors who have had a major influence in Araiza’s work.
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Trent University
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Canada
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Instructor
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Jan 2010 - Feb 2014
Instructor of Indigenous Dance Theatre at Indigenous Studies Department Instructor of Indigenous Dance Theatre at Indigenous Studies Department
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Language Instructor
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1999 - 2005
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Education
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York University
Masters, Dance Ethnology
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