Conferences, Workshops & Seminars







Contemporary Dance and Afro-Cuban Dance Workshops by Jose Carret

Artistic Director of Danza Corpus Cuba , Guest teacher / choreographer for Ballet Creole , Guest Choreographer for Ballet Jorgen 's Solos and Duets season 2011-12 .

Location: George Brown Collegue , Casa Loma Campus , 146 Kendall Ave Main Entrance , Buildiing C .Studio A
Mondays at 7pm Contemporary Dance - ( flying low technique )
Mondays at 8pm Afro-Cuban Dance
For registration or more information
Email : danzacorpus09@yahoo.ca
visit : www.danzacorpus.com

The Society of Russion Ballet

The Society of Russian ballet will hold the annual training seminar in two locations as usual. August 17-19, 2013 in Mississauga and August 21-22, 2013 in Halifax. Non-members of the Society are welcome to attend sessions at either site. Please visit www.societyofrussianballet.org for complete registration details.

City Dance Corps

Intro to Salsa Course with Cornell Mannings
Tue Date: May 07, 2013 to May 28, 2013 From: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
4 week Salsa dance course - Preregistration required.

Step into a whole new world with one of the most popular Latin American dances. Salsa is hot, spicy, and easy to learn. Not only is it fun and energetic, it is a great workout. This class will teach you the basic steps, turns, timing, and lead/follow techniques necessary for further learning.
$18.99 ( hst) Single Class Rate
$59.99 ( hst) 4 week course

4 week program | 1 hour/week
Cha Cha Cha Patterns & Shines: May 15-29, 2013
123 Cha Cha Cha.

The Cha Cha Cha is known as the grandfather of Mambo, and has influenced mambo and salsa to what it is today. The music is infectious, and so is the dance once you get the rhythm down. This class will focus on intermediate timing patterns, rhythm steps, lead/follow technique, and multiple dance-floor-friendly figures and shine patterns.
Intermediate Level.
Wednesdays
May 15 - 29, 2013
7pm - 8pm
$21.50 (+hst) Single Class
$55.00 (+hst) Full Workshop

3 week program | 1 hour/week

Best Dance Moves of the 90s: May 1 - 29, 2013
Hammer Time.

Relive the most popular dance moves from the 90s with our special Hollywood Dance Series throwback. Whether you were rocking the palazzo pants in high school, or getting down at a house party in college, this class will bring you back to when the "Tootsie Roll" and the "Rump Shaker" were the hottest dance moves. With the most memorable hits of the 90s, this class will feature routines from popular R&B, Rock and Dance music bands.
No experience required.
Wednesdays
March 6 - 27, 2013
7:30pm - 8:30pm
$19.25 (+hst) Single Class
$80.97 (+hst) Full Workshop
5 week program | 1 hour/week

City Dance Corps

Limon Contemporary Special Guest Workshop.
Do not miss the chance to train with one of Canada's most well known and talented and dance artists, Belinda McGuire.
This workshop will be an Advanced level Contemporary class with a special focus on Limon Technique. From the air to the floor with control, don’t miss this chance to learn from our special guest instructor.
Saturday May 25, 2013
4:00pm -6:00pm
$22.12 (+hst) Full Workshop
Questions about Workshops or Events? Phone: 416.260.2356 or email us at: info@citydancecorps.com

STATE. A 3 Hour Improvisation Workshop

May 27th, 2013
Dovercourt House, 1st Floor, Toronto
10 AM - 1 PM

Arriving in the space together we will find ways of entrance into various states of consciousness, physicality, and relationship. For 3 hours we will push our level of intensity, tune our focus, and move our bodies. Bring your stamina.
Laura Hicks is a professional dancer, choreographer and teacher from Toronto who is living and working in Berlin. This work will be based on her training with Meg Stuart, Maria Scarlioni, Vera Mantero and Linda Putnam. Laura performed and worked in Vancouver for 6 years before moving to Berlin in 2011. In Europe she has worked with Random Scream (BE) and is currently collaborating with Silences (Kata Kovacs, HU and Tom O'Doherty, IE while creating and performing her own work in various venues around Berlin.
As a teacher Laura has been a guest teacher for community and professional workshops in Vancouver, Toronto, and Berlin. Most recently in Toronto she was an invited guest at the Claude Watson School for the Arts.

Cost:
With Pregistration before May 18: $12 - 15 sliding scale.
At the door: $20.

To register please send an email to: lauraliann@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/events/654099981282982/

City Dance Corps

Ballet (Absolute Beginner)
7 Wednesdays, April 10 - May 22, 2013 8:30pm to 10:00pm
7 Fridays, April 19 - May 31, 2013 6:00 to 7:30pm
An introductory level for Absolute Beginners. Adults will enjoy learning ballet terminology, technique, and repertoire over this 7-week progressive session. Develop confidence, mental concentration, physical coordination and grace. This registered course is for students who are new to ballet, students who want to dance, but never had the opportunity, and for those who have danced before and want to begin again!
$104.87 (+hst) Full 7 week Workshop
$17.26 (+hst) Single Class Rate
7 week program | 1.5 hours/week
Footwear: Ballet Shoes, Jazz Shoes recommended. Bare feet acceptable. Purchase Ballet and Jazz Shoes at City Dance Corps.
Attire: Form fitting, stretch clothing you can sweat in.

Tap (Absolute Beginner)
7 Thursdays, April 11 - May 23, 2013, 6:00pm to 7:00pm
This is an introductory level for Absolute Beginners. Adults will enjoy learning Tap terminology, technique, and steps over this 7-week progressive session. Develop confidence, mental concentration, physical coordination and musicality. This registered course is for students who are new to Tap, students who want to dance, but never had the opportunity, and for those who have danced before and want to begin again.

This class:
Introduces you to basic steps like flaps, taps, time steps, cramprolls and more
Includes a warm up that focuses on technique
Includes progressions across the floor with choreography and improv
Trains the body and the ear to move to different rhythms
Strengthens timing, speed and coordination

$118.50 (hst incl) 7 Week Workshop
$19.50 (hst incl) Single Class
7 week program | 1 hour/week
Footwear: Tap shoes recommended. Call us for info on where to purchase.
Attire: Comfortable attire that allows ease of movement.

Tap Level 2
7 Thursdays, April 11 - May 23, 2013, 5:00pm to 6:00pm
This is a continuation from the Absolute Beginners course. Hoofers will
Be challenged as the speed and complexity rhythms increase
Challenge your coordination and musicality
Prepare for drop in style classes
Strengthen timing, speed and coordination

$118.50 (hst incl) 7 Week Workshop
$19.50 (hst incl) Single Class
7 week program | 1 hour/week
Footwear: Tap shoes recommended. Call us for info on how and where to purchase.
Attire: Comfortable attire that allows ease of movement.

Aerial Silks (Absolute Beginner)
6 Tuesdays, April 23 - May 28, 2013, 8:45pm to 10:15pm
If you've ever dreamed of running away and joining the circus, then this class is for you. Silks is a beautiful combination of circus and dance. Sophisticated and elegant, the combination of strength, flexibility and artistry will get you floating on air while toning the entire body. This class if for beginners. You will first learn fundamental techniques and gradually work towards more advanced movements higher on the silks. Jamie is a professional aerial silk artist. She is fully insured and teaches classes with her own state of the art equipment.
No experience needed.
$135.00 (hst incl) Full Workshop
6 week program | 1.5 hours/week

Aerial Silks Level 2
6 Thursdays, April 25 - May 30, 2013, 8:30pm to 10:00pm
Learn how to dance in air!
Silks is a beautiful combination of circus and dance. Sophisticated and elegant, the combination of strength, flexibility and artistry will get you floating on air while toning the entire body. This class is for beginners with a little bit of experience. You will first learn fundamental techniques and gradually work towards more advanced movements higher on the silks. This workshop is taught by Jamie Holmes, a professional aerial silk artist. She is fully insured and teaches classes with her own state of the art equipment. This is one class not to miss!
Must have fully completed a previous Aerial Silks Workshop.
$135.00 (hst incl) Full Workshop
6 week program | 1.5 hours/week

dance Immersion

African Dance & Singing workshops
Led by Todd Twala & Thembi Nyandeni
the producers & creators of the world acclaimed South African musical UMOJA.

Dance: June 10, 11, 12 – 10am – 3pm
Singing: June 13 & 14 - 10am – 3pm
All classes take place at COBA Studios – 585 Dundas Street East

For more info: info@danceimmersion.ca
Tel: 416-203-0666

Relationship in Movement Pilot Workshop

Explore relationship dynamics through contact dance improvisation

Dates and Times:
Three Sundays
June 2, 9 and 16, 2013
2:00-4:00 pm

Participants: People in a relationship (romantic or friendship) can register together as a couple.
LGBT friendly.

Location: Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt Rd., 3rd Floor, Toronto, Ontario

Fees: $240 per couple (for all three sessions)
Payable by cash or cheque

Registration: kathleenrea@rogers.com and brad.johnston.coaching@gmail.com
Please send all emails to both Kathleen and Brad as they are coordinating registration together
What the workshop series will be:
Explore your relationship with your partner through contact dance improvisation. Contact dance improvisation is a social dance involving touch, in which momentum between two or more people is used to create and inspire dance movements. The dance form is practiced with or without music. Techniques include rolling point of contact, balancing over a partner’s centre of gravity, following momentum, and “listening” with one’s skin surface. Contact dance improvisation is accessible to people with no previous dance training and to people with physical disabilities.

Discover and play with how contact dance improvisation practices can act as metaphors for relationship dynamics and patterns. Learn how non-verbal communication through dance can open up a moving and beautiful “world” that couples can create and share.

What it is not Relationship in Movement Pilot Workshop is not group couples counseling or group couples therapy. Although your personal relationship issues are welcome to arise, facilitators will not be analyzing these issues or offering solution-based counseling in the way a couples counselor/therapist might. Couples in crisis are welcome to attend the pilot only if they are regularly attending couples counseling or therapy. (i.e. the workshop would be an adjunct to couples counseling or therapy they are receiving).

This is not a workshop in which you will explore sensual or sexual touch. The touch in the workshop will involve appropriate touch for public situations.
What you will do:
- learn contact dance improvisation techniques (at a very accessible level to all who attend)
- practice these techniques with your partner
- discuss, with your partner and with the group (as much as you want to share), relationship issues that arise through dancing
- dance with your partner and sometimes together as a group
- learn specific exercises designed to explore relationship themes that tend to arise between couples.

Please note: as facilitators, Brad and Kathleen will sometimes demonstrate contact dance movement with you to help you and your partner understand an exercise.

Meet the facilitators:
Brad Johnston is a Co-Active Life Coach with training from Coaches Training International (CTI). He earned his B.A. in Psychology and Theatre from Brock University and has a Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation from the University of Waterloo.
Brad has trained in organizational and relationship system coaching, embodied leadership and mindfulness. He is also an Innovation Facilitator with training from Procter & Gamble’s Innovation GYM in Cincinnati and facilitates in the area of complex social system change.

Kathleen Rea is a certified Psychotherapist with the OACCPP. She earned a diploma in expressive arts therapy from ISIS-Canada, a certificate in psychology from Ryerson University and a Master's degree in expressive arts therapy with a minor in psychology from the European Graduate School. A practicing therapist for the past twelve years, she is also a therapeutic performance facilitator, helping people express their life stories through multidisciplinary performance.
Kathleen teaches contact dance at George Brown College and Niagara College. She founded and runs the Wednesday Dance Jam at Dovercourt House in Toronto. Kathleen has choreographed over forty works for her company REAson d’etre dance productions and for other organizations. Her award winning dance film Lapinthrope aired on Bravo Television and screened at numerous international festivals. Her production Long Live was nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore awards, including outstanding choreography. In 2010, Kathleen was co-winner of the K. M. Hunter Dance Award. Her book The Healing Dance was named by the editor of Canadian Living magazine as one of her Favorite Things in the March 2013 issue.

DJD's June Jazz Intensive

East Edition:
June 25-29, 2013
Toronto – Ryerson Theatre School

Our June Jazz Intensives will immerse advanced dancers in to the style, essence and energy that has come to define DJD. Passionate teachers, intoxicating music, an encouraging and inclusive learning environment all come together for a dance experience you won’t soon forget, and will keep you coming back year after year!

DJD was founded to re-ignite the traditional values of jazz dance. Despite firm roots and a rich history, by the 80’s jazz dance had lost its connections to jazz music and to the vital spirit of the form. DJD was born to reclaim the spirit of the jazz dance form and evolve the art forward.

Schedule:
Full schedule for both West and East Intensives will be set by mid-late March. Classes may include daily jazz class, DJD repertoire, West African, Afro Cuban, Latin styles, and swing. Classes will run from approximately 9:00AM-4:30PM daily.

Tuition:
East Edition (Toronto): $420+GST
Acceptance into June Jazz Intensive:
The intensive is for advanced dancers. Participants should possess strong technical ability and solid understanding of fundamental dance concepts. ALthough being held at Ryerson Theatre School, the Intensive does not require you to be a registered Ryerson student
Visit http://www.decidedlyjazz.com/move/adult-dance/workshops for application form

Housing available at Ryerson by contacting them directly: http://www.ryerson.ca/conference/ Or by contacting Agnes at 416-979-5000 ext. 7499 meeting@ryerson.ca

Can't make the East Edition? Join us the week before in Calgary for the West Edition:
June 20-23, 2013
Calgary – DJD Studios
West Edition (Calgary): $280 +GST

South American Dance Retreat...join City Dance Corps for an unforgettable experience!

Dance Salsa in the heat of Peru and learn Tango in the city where it all began.

The trip will start in Peru, where City Dance Corps Latin Pro team will be performing and teaching workshops at the 2nd Annual Peru Salsa Congress. This will be four days full of Salsa fun with beach parties, Bachata Nights, performances and workshops from the world's best instructors.

Following the Congress experience, we will head north up the world famous mountain, Machu Picchu. For four days and nights, we will be heading up to the world heritage site and one of the wonders of the world.
The adventure continues as we fly to Buenos Aires and join the 3rd Annual Tango Retreat where an intensive Tango Bootcamp will unfold in a city of passion, culture and history. Afternoon cafes, evening dinner theatre shows, and nightly Milongas will mark the last few days of this South American adventure filled with dance, culture and excitement.

Visit http://www.citydancecorps.com/events/255-south-american-dance-retreat for trip itinerary and pricing. Pick and choose which part of the adventure to partake in, or do it all...email info@citydancecorps.com with your trip confirmation or if you have any questions.