Dancemakers - Classes

Company Class Schedule

Company Classes
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays| 11am to 12:30pm | class times may vary.
Please refer to the above teaching schedule for any changes.

Company classes take place when the company is in residence at the Dancemakers Centre for Creation and are taught by company members, the Associate Director and the Artistic Director. Advanced students of dance and dance professionals are welcome to attend on a drop-in basis ($10/class) or to buy 5-class passes ($40.00 each).

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Emerging Artist Training Scholarship Program - Winter 2012

Dancemakers invites emerging dance artists to apply for the second instalment of the training scholarship program (nine-weeks from February 13-April13, 2012). Applicants must have graduated from post-secondary training (or equivalent) in 2009, 2010 or 2011. Participants will join the company dancers for morning training led by Michael Trent, Bonnie Kim and guests Andrew Harwood, Jo Leslie, Darryl Tracy, Peggy Baker and Heidi Strauss. Up to ten full scholarships (all classes are free) are available to those interested in deepening their practice under the Company’s guidance.

Please note that for the winter/spring of 2012, the regular company class schedule will generally be offered three times per week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) from 11am to 12:30pm. Some exceptions will apply, and the schedule is subject to change.

Application: a one-page letter stating how this opportunity would benefit your career and a maximum two-page CV.
Email by January 20, 2012 to: michael@dancemakers.org
Successful applicants will be notified by January 27, 2012.

WINTER TRAINING SERIES 2012

Dancemakers is pleased to offer exciting opportunities to study with 11 local, national and international contemporary dance artists during the Winter of 2012.

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Dancemakers works hard to provide excellent opportunities to train with exceptional artists at affordable prices; talk to us about our exchange program, it’ll make a difference to you and us.

Pre-pay for 2 eligible workshops (DE) and apply a 10% discount (for 3 or more eligible workshops, apply 15%). Or use your class card for more savings (CCE).

INFO AT A GLANCE

	George Stamos (Montreal) January 19 1-3pm Improvisation $10 (DE)		Peter Bingham (Vancouver) January 22, 1-3pm Improvisation into composition $10 (DE)
	Andrea Spaziani (Toronto) January 23, 1-3pm Creative Process $10 (DE)		Martin Nachbar (Berlin) January 28, 11-3:30pm Composition $22 (DE)
	Andrew Harwood (Montreal) February 13-16, 1-5pm Contact improv & instantaneous composition $160 (DE)		Jo Leslie (Toronto) February 22 & 24, 10-12pm Lecoq $10 (CCE)
	Darryl Tracy (Toronto) March 12,14 & 16, 11-12:30pm Dance class $10 (CCE)		Peggy Baker (Toronto) March 26, 28 & 30, 10-11:30am Dance class $12
	Heidi Strauss (Toronto) April 2, 4 & 5, 11-12:30pm Dance class $10 (CCE)		Bonnie Kim (Toronto) February 21, 27, 29 March 2, 19, 21, 23 April 11, 13 Dance class $10 (CCE)
	Michael Trent (Toronto) February 13, 15, 17 March 5, 7, 9 Dance class $10 (CCE)

[Martin Nachbar] How to not know and find out together
January 28, 11-3:30pm $22 (DE)
In making his duet 'Repeater', Nachbar and his father studied Rudolf Laban's eight movement qualities to generate material. Together with Nachbar, participants in this workshop will warm-up, read the descriptions of Laban's movement qualities, devise exercises and tasks to try them out and apply what Nachbar and his dramaturge Jeroen Peeters call 'post-it-chess', which is a way of thinking together without talking.

[Andrew Harwood] Being Ready
February 13-16, 1-5pm $160 (DE)
In this course we will focus on the skills used in creating a dynamic, surprising, daring and unusual Contact duet, trio and perhaps ensemble. Harwood asks: “What does it mean to be ready to dance at any time, with anyone, anywhere ?” Explored themes and material will include: ki work, spatial design, various states of being, utilization of direct action and initiation, resistance, disappearance, subtle and surprising ways of moving weight, flowing through unfamiliar circumstances and integrating our imagination and our heart.

[Jo Leslie] Introduction to Character
February 22 & 24, 10-12pm $10 (CCE)
"Character is rhythm" Jacques Lecoq
We will begin with this premise and explore physicality as related to character, rhythm and speech: how physical structure and rhythm shape personality…impulse, perception, thought, behaviour, speech gesture and action. Beginning with a directed warm-up, the work will evolve into guided play and improvisation stream of consciousness, moving and speaking, distilling big movement into detail, interaction and scenarios. Please bring a notebook, pen and a bag of random clothing and accessories.

[Darryl Tracy] Dance Class
March 12,14 & 16, 11-12:30pm $10 (CCE)
Darryl Tracy teaches a centre class that combines classical modern and contemporary techniques with a focus on strength, range, control, performance, musicality, breath, coordination, power and stamina. The class progresses with exhilarating combinations that leap, fly, tumble, suspend and teeter, allowing the participant to bring individual artistic points of view to the experience.

[Peggy Baker] Dance Class
March 26, 28 & 30, 10-11:30am $12
Peggy Baker brings the richness, depth, and immediacy of her physical practice into play in a class driven by dynamism and musicality, and focused on an exploration of the expressive and kinetic potential of our bodies. At play in the movement material are principles of the Graham, Limon and Cunningham techniques, as well as the contemporary influences of choreographers James Kudelka, Paul-André Fortier, Lar Lubovitch, Mark Morris, Doug Varone, and Molissa Fenley.

[Heidi Strauss] Dance Class
April 2, 4 & 5, 11-12:30pm $10 (CCE)
Long and short movement sequences build from and to the floor, exploring momentum, changing points of motivation and shifts in directional energy. The class aims to give the dancer room to play with the innate physics of the body and natural musicality offered by following movement through, or to its limits, on any particular day.

[Bonnie Kim] Dance Class
February 21, 27, 29 ; March 2, 19, 21, 23 ; April 11, 13 $10 (CCE)
Kim believes a strong technical foundation promotes optimal versatility and freedom. Her classes focus on precision, dynamic range and interpretive choices.
You will get your legs up. You will fall, jump, slide, sustain, lengthen and sweat. You will have great music. You will do different things and things you've done before. You will move.

[Michael Trent] Dance Class
February 13, 15, 17; March 5, 7, 9 $10 (CCE)
Working on simplicity and complexity in fixed (set) and open (improvised) forms, this class moves effortlessly from the floor to sky building strength, openness and musical clarity through choice-making and presence.

Coming in the fall of 2012!
Save the date for an incredible opportunity for choreographic research and development with New York-based choreographer Susan Rethorst from September 23 to 30, 2012. Rethorst, who received the 2010 Alpert Award in the Arts, will lead a seven day workshop entitled Proposals in Action, which concerns itself with dailiness as both content and practice. This program is by application only and is offered to choreographers, dancers and theatre practitioners with a strong physical practice. Early deadline for letters of interest for those wishing to apply for travel and/or subsistence assistance from local or national funding agencies is January 9, 2012 with notification of acceptance by January 13, 2012. All others need to apply by July 1, 2012.

For more information and to register for any or all of these programs call us at 416-367-1800