Come take class in your Halloween costume!
We'll take your picture, and whoever gets the most likes/comments/shares wins 2 FREE CLASSES.
With Alyssa Scocco — October 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2026
Explore ballet technique as a tool for expression, investigating how dynamics, musicality, and contrast can make movement emotionally specific. Designed for intermediate to advanced dancers, but curious and open movers are welcome. Sliding scale $10–$30 +HST.
This 7-week series is a direct continuation of Beginner Contemporary Series I. Expand on contemporary fundamentals with a rotating focus on floorwork, partnering, musicality, improvisation, and more. In a judgement-free space, dancers explore movement and tune into their imagination, emotions, and sensations through warm-ups, set phrases, guided improvisation, and choreography.
With Christina Litt Belch — November 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2026
Discover your own quack character as we build 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, with sunglasses and rubber ducks provided. All levels and backgrounds welcome. Sliding scale $10–$30 +HST.
From November 6th-November 27th, learn a full variation from start to finish with Riho Dantow. Whether preparing an entry for Prix Du Canada Competition or simply developing your performance artistry, this 4 week workshop series challenges you with a variation rich in technical elements.
This 7-week continuation of Series I deepens the fundamentals of contemporary floorwork. Through action-and-reaction games and improvisation, dancers will expand their spatial awareness, strengthen the body-mind connection, and build the strength and mobility needed to move confidently on the floor. Expect to develop greater physical strength, coordination, and confidence while cultivating a deeper connection to your body and creative instincts.
With Christina Litt Belch — November 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2026
Discover your own quack character as we build 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, with sunglasses and rubber ducks provided. All levels and backgrounds welcome. Sliding scale $10–$30 +HST.
This 6-week course is a continuation of Series I and is designed for dancers who are ready to build on their initial introduction to ballet. This series maintains a supportive and accessible environment while moving at a slightly faster pace, allowing dancers to gain confidence in the vocabulary, structure, and concepts they have already learned.
This 6-week course is designed for dancers who have a basic understanding of ballet vocabulary and are ready to begin expanding their practice in a structured, supportive environment. This series emphasizes repetition and thoughtful progression, allowing dancers to build strength, coordination, and confidence while developing a strong relationship to classical ballet technique.
With Christina Litt Belch — November 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2026
Discover your own quack character as we build 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, with sunglasses and rubber ducks provided. All levels and backgrounds welcome. Sliding scale $10–$30 +HST.
With Christina Litt Belch — November 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2026
Discover your own quack character as we build 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, with sunglasses and rubber ducks provided. All levels and backgrounds welcome. Sliding scale $10–$30 +HST.
With Alyssa Scocco — October 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2026
Explore ballet technique as a tool for expression, investigating how dynamics, musicality, and contrast can make movement emotionally specific. Designed for intermediate to advanced dancers, but curious and open movers are welcome. Sliding scale $10–$30 +HST.
With Alyssa Scocco — October 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2026
Explore ballet technique as a tool for expression, investigating how dynamics, musicality, and contrast can make movement emotionally specific. Designed for intermediate to advanced dancers, but curious and open movers are welcome. Sliding scale $10–$30 +HST.
With Alyssa Scocco — October 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2026
Explore ballet technique as a tool for expression, investigating how dynamics, musicality, and contrast can make movement emotionally specific. Designed for intermediate to advanced dancers, but curious and open movers are welcome. Sliding scale $10–$30 +HST.
Come prepared and ready to kill it!
• 15 min photoshoot session
• 3 edited pictures | extra edits $20
• online gallery
From October 2nd-October 30th, learn a full variation from start to finish with Riho Dantow. Whether preparing an entry for Prix Du Canada Competition or simply developing your performance artistry, this 4 week workshop series challenges you with a variation rich in technical elements.
With Clara Chemtov — Sept 11, 18, 25 & Oct 2, 2026
Explore narrative and evocative movement languages through warmups, text-based exercises, storytelling, rapid creation prompts, and group improvisation. Leave with concrete methods to build a personalized movement vocabulary for your own work or collaboration. All movement backgrounds welcome. Sliding scale $10–$30 +HST.
Take a trip to Verona! Step into the world of Romeo & Juliet and explore sections of this romantic ballet set to Prokofiev’s unforgettable score. Each class begins with a ballet warm-up at the barre, followed by centre work designed to develop the sequencing, musicality, and patterning needed for the choreography. We’ll also use music from the ballet to set the mood and get into the Romeo & Juliet spirit before diving into the repertoire. Come ready to fall in love with the ballet - (Spoiler, no deaths at the end! )
This 8-week course is designed for dancers who have a basic understanding of ballet vocabulary and are ready to begin expanding their practice in a structured, supportive environment. This series emphasizes repetition and thoughtful progression, allowing dancers to build strength, coordination, and confidence while developing a strong relationship to classical ballet technique.
This 8-week course is designed for adults with no previous ballet or movement experience who are curious about ballet and want a welcoming, supportive introduction to the form. Series I moves at a slow, accessible pace and prioritizes comfort, clarity, and understanding. Dancers will learn not only how to move, but also what things are called and why they are done.
Explore the fundamentals of contemporary floorwork through action-and-reaction games and improvisation, dancers will develop spatial awareness, strengthen the connection between body and mind, and build the strength and mobility needed to move confidently on the floor. Over eight weeks, dancers will build physical strength, coordination, and confidence while cultivating a deeper connection to their bodies and creative instincts.
Join Sarahi for this 15-week course is designed for dancers who want to start their pointe journey. We will guide you through the basic concepts and mechanics, understanding the anatomy, and building confidence.
Explore the fundamentals of contemporary dance with a different focus in each class including floorwork, partnering, musicality, improvisation and more. This series aims to facilitate a judgement-free space to explore movement and tune into your imagination, emotions, and sensations. Classes will include a warm-up, set movement phrases, guided improvisation and choreography.
Classes for $10?!!
You got it! For one week and one week only, all of our drop-in classes will cost just $10+HST.
Why??
Because we want to see the studio filled with new and old dance lovers- your friend, coworker, mom or maybe it’s YOU who’s been dying to take a class and has been waiting for the right moment!
This practice explores Queer, Trans, and Gender expansive embodiment through curiosity, creativity, and community. Rooted in Dreamwalker Dance’s Conscious Bodies Practice (Andrea Nann, Artistic Director), it invites participants into a shared space of connection and resilience.
Using movement, sound, writing, image-capturing, and relational activities, we foster agency, presence, and celebration. The approach is person- and community-centered, with a strong focus on collective exploration and co-creation.
Participants leave with a deeper sense of the dancing artist within, and a strengthened relationship to their body and community.
Ready to level up?
Ballet Clinic with Sarahí was made for you. In a focused three-hour workshop, you'll work on the specific skills and details that turn an Absolute Beginner into a Beginner, and a Beginner into an Intermediate.
Unlike a regular drop-in class, Ballet Clinic keeps class size small, so you get more personalized corrections and focused attention.
Drawing on years of teaching experience, studio director Sarahí has distilled the elements that take your dancing to the next level, and she's excited to share them in this new format.
Feel free to bring a notebook or whatever you’d like to take notes on; sections of the workshop will be delivered in a lecture style.
We're collaborating with our friends at the Toronto Dance Love-In to bring you Open Studio!
Open Studio facilitates a space to work on what you’re working on and attend to what is emergent in your practice. Gather, be social without an agenda, and be inspired by others around you! Come with nothing but yourself, as you are. Share, be bold, nap, rest, wiggle and shake in the company of others.
Lean Into Your Interests, Challenge Yourself And Discover New Facets Of Dance.
Our Intermediate Adult Summer Workshops run July 24th to July 26th, 2026, featuring workshops lead by industry professional in Ballet Repertoire, Pas de Deux and Improvisation.
Join A Single Workshop Or All Three!
Call for Artists: Emerging Practice Cohort 2026/2027.
This program is a collective commitment to training, growth and connection, designed for artists who want to train and teach. If you’re an artist keen on joining, please submit your application before our deadline on July 12, 2026 (11:59 PM).
Lean Into Your Interests, Challenge Yourself And Discover New Facets Of Dance.
Our Beginner Adult Summer Workshops run July 17th to July 19th, 2026, featuring workshops lead by industry professional in Ballet Repertoire, Pas de Deux and Improvisation.
Join A Single Workshop Or All Three!
Join us for the culminating performance of The Fifth’s Summer Intensive, featuring an original work created during the program by Alyssa Martin alongside pieces by our featured and guest choreographers.
Over two weeks, we’ll be hosting 10 pop-up workshops from acclaimed artists in the city and 2 creation processes led by Dora award-winning artists Jessie Garon and Alyssa Martin. At the end of each week, the processes will culminate in a showing at the Citadel alongside guest performances curated by The Fifth.
From June 5th - June 26th, learn the Odette variation from the Swan Lake with Riho Dantow. Whether preparing an entry for Prix Du Canada Competition or simply developing your performance artistry, this 4 week workshop series challenges you with a variation rich in technical elements.
Welcome to our beginner ballet series! Over the course of 8 weeks, you will embark on an exciting journey into the world of ballet. Whether you're taking your first steps or refining your basics, this class is designed to nurture your passion for dance and lay a strong foundation for your ballet practice.
By the end of the 8-week course, you will have gained confidence in your ballet abilities and be prepared to continue your ballet journey in more advanced classes. The course also aims to provide additional information and insights into the art form of ballet, both inside and outside the studio
We’re turning 7 and throwing a big blowout party with one large goal. Thanks to all of your love, we are simply overflowing in our current rental space, and we need a new studio in order to keep growing and welcoming new members of the Fifth Fam every day!
Welcome to our Beginner Contemporary Floorwork Series I.
This 8-week course is designed for dancers looking to build confidence in floorwork practice within a supportive and safe environment. Through action-and-reaction games and improvisation, dancers will develop spatial awareness, strengthen the connection between body and mind, and build the strength and mobility needed to move confidently on the floor. Classes will also include foundational movement phrases, technical skills, improvisation, and choreography.
From May 1st - May 22nd, learn the Diana variation from La Esmeralda with Riho Dantow. Whether preparing an entry for Prix Du Canada Competition or simply developing your performance artistry, this 4 week workshop series challenges you with a variation rich in technical elements.
Welcome to our Absolute Beginner Ballet Series I. This 8-week course is designed for adults with no previous ballet or movement experience who are curious about ballet and want a welcoming, supportive introduction to the form. Series I moves at a slow, accessible pace and prioritizes comfort, clarity, and understanding. Classes are structured to allow ample time for questions, repetition, and explanation, with special attention given to introducing ballet vocabulary—often one of the most intimidating barriers for adult beginners. Dancers will learn not only how to move, but also what things are called and why they are done. This series focuses on building confidence, body awareness, and a sense of familiarity within a ballet class setting, creating a strong and encouraging foundation for continued study.
This intermediate/advanced contemporary phrase work class explores the principle of exhaustion of routine as a pathway to authenticity, using physical intensity to uncover genuine movement expression. Rooted in the concept of recycling energy, phrasework challenges dancers to sustain momentum and rhythm through continuity. Diving into concepts on how to redirect effort rather than stopping then restarting new movement. Through this process, participants develop a stronger sense of musicality within the body, discovering rhythm as an internal pulse that drives movement beyond counts or structure.
From April 3th - April 24th, learn the joyful Peasant variation from Act I of Giselle with Riho Dantow. Whether preparing an entry for Prix Du Canada Competition or simply developing your performance artistry, this 4 week workshop series challenges you with a variation rich in technical elements.
