Finding Your Movement Language

With Clara Chemtov — September 11, 18, 25 & October 2, 2026

In this workshop, we will explore different ways of crafting narrative and evocative movement languages. Each session will include a warmup for the body and the imagination, followed by a combination of text-based exercises, storytelling activities, rapid creation prompts, and group improvisation.

Movers will leave with concrete methods to create a personalized vocabulary that they can use to create their own work or communicate with others through movement.

Participants from all movement backgrounds are welcome!

Sliding Scale $10-$30 +HST.

Contemporary Ballet Workshop

With Alyssa Scocco — October 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2026

What makes movement feel like it means something?
Contemporary Ballet Workshop explores ballet technique as a tool for expression, investigating how dynamics, musicality, and contrast can transform movement from technically correct into emotionally specific. Each class will begin with a ballet-based warm-up before moving into athletic contemporary ballet phrase work where dancers can put those ideas into practice.
Throughout the series, we’ll play with weight, timing, resistance, suspension, attack, texture, musical syncopation, and expansive port de bras. Particular attention will be given to contrast: how shifting between qualities can create tension, anticipation, surprise, and emotional clarity within a phrase. Rather than relying on “acting” or facial expression alone to communicate feeling, we’ll explore how emotion and narrative can live directly inside the dynamics of movement.
Classwork will bend familiar ballet structures through unexpected timing, port de bras, and tricky movement patterns, challenging dancers to stay mentally sharp rather than relaxing into the familiarity of a traditional ballet class. Think of it as a movement laboratory: build technical control, investigate the choices available within ballet technique, and discover how breaking the rules can open up new possibilities. Each class will feature new phrase work, allowing dancers to use choreography as a space to experiment with ideas explored that day.
This workshop is designed for intermediate to advanced dancers. A strong ballet foundation and comfort picking up choreography will be helpful, but all dancers who are curious, open to experimentation, and ready for a challenge are strongly encouraged to join!

Sliding Scale $10-$30 +HST.

FIND YOUR QUACK

With Christina Litt Belch — November 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2026

Discover your own quack character as we develop a piece of choreography and music composition together each week.

Connect with your funny side and express your inner child through movement, sound, and play.

Enter the world of quacks using sunglasses and a variety of styles and sizes of rubber ducks (provided by Litt Dance Collective). 

All levels and backgrounds are welcome in this exploration! Let's quack! 

Sliding Scale $10-$30 +HST.

Weird Erotic Funny Dance Class

With Mac Maccullum-Mallory — January 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2027

This workshop smashes together erotic dance and contemporary/ballet exploring queered movement, dance-theatre, erotic/sexual/weird/funny movement, and the grotesque.

Week by week expect to explore voice and movement through directed exercises, improvisation, and repertoire/choreography.

Let’s get together and enjoy moving our bodies in queer, sexual, grotesque ways while pushing our physicality and accessing technique.

Sliding Scale $10-$30 +HST.

Tracking Tension

With Shelby Nilsen — February 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2027

What happens when we stop avoiding tension and start following it?

Tracking Tension is a practice that treats the body as a landscape where tension accumulates, shifts, and releases. The class explores movement as a path to catharsis—not guaranteed, but worth working toward. The journey matters as much as the arrival.

Each session includes a grounding warm-up, improvisation, and phrase work focused on gravity, softness, and impulse. We investigate how exhaustion can create space for fresh movement and surprising choices.

The class is a shared space for community and exploration. Open to anyone curious about the relationship between tension, emotion, and movement.

Sliding Scale $10-$30 +HST.