CTS JANUARY 2011 SCHEDULE!

Susie Burpee - January 25

Canadian contemporary dance artist Susie Burpee is based in Toronto, where she works as a performer, choreographer, and teacher. She trained at the Professional Program of Contemporary Dancers (BA Hons.), augmented her studies at the Limon and Cunningham Schools in New York, and has studied intensively with master teachers Peter Boneham and Dianne Miller.

Known for her strong physical presence and emotional performances, Ms. Burpee has made her mark in Canadian performing arts as a company dancer with the critically acclaimed Ruth Cansfield Dance, Le Groupe Dance Lab, and Dancemakers. As an independent artist, she continues to work closely with innovative choreographers Serge Bennathan, Sasha Ivanochko, Lesandra Dodson, and Tedd Robinson.

As a creator, Ms.Burpee creates works that showcase ‘fully human characters, struggling for connection’ (William Littler, The Toronto Star). She was awarded Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Performance and Outstanding New Choreography and in 2006, she received the K.M. Hunter Artists Award for Dance. Recent works include a 2009 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Commission for 24 dancers, and a new collaborative work with dance artist Linnea Swan. In 2010, her work will be featured at DanceWorks Mainstage (Toronto) and The Canada Dance Festival (Ottawa).

Ms. Burpee teaches technique classes and workshops for professional dancers and students across Canada. For the past two years, she has worked with emerging artists at Tedd Robinson’s Summer Intensive, teaching class and mentoring artistic development.

Marie Claire Forte - January 27

Marie Claire is a Montréal-based dance artist; her artistic practice currently questions relationships, duration and space. She dances as an independent artist for Louise Bédard and Ame Henderson. As a company member of the now defunct Le Groupe Dance Lab in Ottawa from 2004 to 2008, she danced for over twenty choreographers from Canada and abroad and trained under Peter Boneham. She has presented her own work in Montréal, Ottawa and St. John’s, and is currently working on the video series and performance Moving Towards with Alanna Kraaijeveld. She also translates and writes, namely for The Dance Current.

WORKING CLASS JANUARY 2011 SCHEDULE

Wed 05 / Fri 07 - Gail Lotenberg

Mon 10 / Wed 12 / Fri 14 - Serge Bennathan

Mon 17 / Wed 19 / Fri 21 - Chutzpah! classes w/ Oded Graf

Mon 24 / Wed 26 / Fri 28 - Chutzpah! classes w/ Yossi Berg

Working Class is held at The Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St. (at Granville)

9:30am-11:00am, $12 drop in, $100 for 10 class card.

www.trainingsocietyofvancouver.ca

CTS DECEMBER SCHEDULE!

WORKING CLASS DECEMBER SCHEDULE!

Mon 29 / Wed 01 / Fri 03 - Tiffany Tregarthen (Out Innerspace Dance Theatre)

Mon 06 / Wed 08 / Fri 10 - Serge Bennathan (Les Productions Figlio)

Mon 13 / Wed 15 / Fri 17 - Megan Walker Straight

CTS NOVEMBER SCHEDULE!

The 605 Collective (Classes Nov 23 & 25)

The 605 Collective, co-directed by Lisa Gelley, Shay Kuebler and Josh Martin is an interdisciplinary group of Vancouver-based dance artists committed to the creation and performance of new work inspired by both urban and contemporary dance. The freedom found in this cohesion, along with the merging of their distinct movement and perspectives, has awakened an exciting, fresh, and unpredictable aesthetic to capture new audiences. 605 has emerged with a clear direction and strong vision to offer a highly athletic art form, with extreme physicality derived from the human experience. Their work continues to test and challenge the full capacity of the dancers while acknowledging their unique qualities as both performers and as personalities. In various combinations, this cooperative team is exploring new paths and creative methods to build performance experiences that are powerful, visually stirring, and ultimately engaging. With the group’s extreme versatility, the artists experiment and create by using one another as the canvas for their ideas and visions. Through a constant collaboration, pulling from their diverse movement vocabularies, the collective members continue pushing past their individual limitations towards new possibilities. As part of a new generation of creators, The 605 Collective aims to become a company known for its movement innovation and physically demanding works, valuing collaboration as an essential tool for new directions in dance.

The 605 Collective - Class Description

Warm up will include stretch, upper body strengthening, awakening the feet, arms, spine, and rib cage. Through a series of exercises in the centre and across the floor, we will acknowledge the weight of the body, both resting and moving through space, and find the natural or instinctual pathways and momentum that this weight creates. This class will include examples of 605's movement vocabulary, combining techniques and styles found in both contemporary and hip-hop dance. Participants will be exploring the body's relationship with the floor, finding efficiency into and out of the floor, articulations and isolations of body parts at various levels, and discovering effective and safe ways to carry out large, athletic movements while maintaining raw and powerful execution. Bring your kneepads and enthusiasm.


WORKING CLASS NOVEMBER SCHEDULE
M Nov 1, W Nov 3  Susan Elliott
M Nov 8, W Nov 10  Deanna Peters
F Nov 12  Justine Chambers
M Nov 15, W Nov 17, F Nov 19  Helen Walkley
M Nov 22, W Nov 24, F Nov 26  The 605 Collective

9:30-11:00am @ The Dance Centre (677 Davie St, @ Granville)

$12 drop in, $100 for 10 class card

www.trainingsocietyofvancouver.ca

CTS October Schedule!

Working Class October Schedule:
Mon 04  Justine Chambers / Wed 06 & Fri 08 Karissa Barry

Wed 13 Deanna Peters / Fri 15 Justine Chambers
Mon 18, Wed 20 & Fri 22 Shauna Elton

Mon 25, Wed 27 & Fri 29 Rob Kitsos 
Classes run 9:30-11am at The Dance Centre; 677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC.
Drop-ins are $12 or $100 for a ten class card.

For more information please visit http://www.trainingsocietyofvancouver.ca/

CTS CLASS SCHEDULE SEPT 2010!

INTRODUCING WORKING CLASS!
The Training Society of Vancouver would like to announce Working Class, an initiative supported by The Dance Centre to provide consistent contemporary dance training to professional and aspiring dance artists.

Beginning September 07, 2010, Working Class operates until June 2011. Classes run 9:30-11am at The Dance Centre; 677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC.

Drop-ins are $12 or $100 for a ten class card. By purchasing a Working Class card on or before Sept. 07, you will be entered into a draw to get back your $100 and receive your first ten classes for free!

WORKING CLASS SCHEDULE
SEPTEMBER 2010

Tues 07 / Fri 10 - David Raymond (Out Innerspace Dance Theatre)
Mon 13 / Wed 15 / Fri 17 - Michael Caldwell (from Toronto)
Mon 20 / Thur 23 / Fri 24 - James Gnam (the plastic orchid factory)
Mon 27 / Wed 29 / Fri 01 - Alvin Tolentino (Co. ERASGA)
 
For more information please visit http://www.trainingsocietyofvancouver.ca/

JUST ANNOUNCED!

Summer Contemporary Technique Series
at The Dance Centre!
July 5-23, 2010

Join us for daily class, five days a week at The Dance Centre!
The Summer Contemporary Technique Series is presented in partnership with Ballet BC.
See schedule below....

JULY 9TH CLASS: TYLER GLEDHILL Tyler Gledhill was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He trained at The National Ballet School in Toronto, Het National Balletacademie in Amsterdam, and The Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle. While in school he was awarded the Peter Dwyer Scholarship for the Performing Arts and the Lawrence Hasket Memorial Award. He began his career in The Netherlands with Intordans, touring throughout Europe and Asia. Next he danced with The Göteborg Ballet and Cullberg Ballet in Sweden. Tyler has danced in works by choreographers such as Jirí Kylián, Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Tero Saarinen, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Mats Ek and Birgit Cullberg, and created roles in works by Jo Kanamori, Nicolo Fonte, Javier de Frutos, Regina van Berkel, Patrick Delcroix, and Karole Armitage. In Toronto as an independent artist, Tyler works with Hit & Run Productions, Opera Atelier, Pro Arte Danza and DA Hoskins.

JULY 16TH CLASS: MARTIN INTHAMOUSSU is a dancer and choreographer from Uruguay. He studied at the National Ballet School and Montevideo Ballet Studio in Uruguay and as a guest student at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in The Netherlands. He has studied with teachers such as Julyen Hamilton, David Zambrano, Deborah Hay, Iñaki Azpillaga, Mathilde Monnier, Alito Alessi, Nita Little, Wendy Houstoun, Mark Tompkins, Nigel Charnock, Juan Kruz Díaz and Benoit Lachambre among others. As a choreographer he has got prizes and scholarships in his home country and abroad. He has been awarded the danceWEB Europe scholarship twice in Vienna and the siwic programme in Zürich. . He has been awarded the prize as Best Director 2005 in Uruguay. He has been artist in residence in Djerassi Arts Centre in San Francisco (USA) and in Theater im Ballsaal (Germany). He has been selected for DANCEOMI in New York (2010). He has performed in Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Spain, Holland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Uruguay, USA, Canada and the UK. He has choreographed for the National Ballet in Uruguay, Agente Libre in Venezuela and Cia Nómada in Tenerife.
As a teacher he has worked in universities in Venezuela, Mexico Spain and Germany as well as in private institutes in Latin America and Europe.He has published articles on dance theory in Uruguay, Venezuela and Spain. He has been invited as dramaturgy advisor for the Ballet at the Opera House in Bonn.
Currently he is artistic director of Montevideo Sitiada, a dance festival in Montevideo and works as a freelance choreographer and performer with different companies in Europe and South America. He is part of the Performance Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.

Contemporary Technique with Julia Sasso June 7-10th!

Julia Sasso is a choreographer, performer, master teacher and the Artistic Director of Julia Sasso dances. Ms Sasso has created more than fifty original dance works including choreography for feature film, television and theatre.

She performed internationally with Toronto's Dancemakers (1984-2000) and was the company's Assistant Artistic Director and principal teacher for a dozen years. Throughout her career she has developed her artistry through ongoing training in Skinner Releasing Technique, improvisation, Authentic Movement, theatre, voice, Pilates, ballet and contemporary dance techniques.

Highly regarded as a teacher of contemporary dance techniques, Sasso has taught internationally at distinguished learning centres including UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Cornell University, the Canada Dance Festival, Le Groupe Dance Lab and the School of Dance (Ottawa), LADMMI (Montreal), the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Canadian Childrens' Dance Theatre, the National Ballet School, the School of Contemporary Dancers (Winnipeg), Main Dance and Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver), L'Ecole de Danse de Quebec, Regroupment Québécois de la Danse, York University, Grant MacEwan College and Simon Fraser University; in Budapest, Mexico, England, Wales, Scotland, Austria and Germany. Sasso is a practicing certified teacher of the Skinner Releasing Technique.

Schedule for June 7th to July 1st!

New Schedule for May 17th - June 10th posted below!

Arts Umbrella Artist-in-Residence Justine Chambers and Day Helesic bring open contemporary technique classes to the Vancouver, BC community. Get a kickstart to your day, get ready for rehearsal, maintain your strength, or just come for fun! Join us Monday to Thursday for morning class! Class is appropriate for advanced dance students and professional dancers.

For further information please contact Justine Chambers or

Day Helesic

Presented through Arts Umbrella's Artist in Residence Program

Contemporary Technique Series

Arts Umbrella Artist-in-Residence Justine Chambers and Day Helesic bring open contemporary technique classes to the Vancouver, BC community. Get a kickstart to your day, get ready for rehearsal, maintain your strength, or just come for fun! Join us Monday to Thursday for morning class! Class is appropriate for advanced dance students and professional dancers.
For further information please contact Justine Chambers or
Day Helesic
Presented through Arts Umbrella's Artist in Residence Program