Saturday, June 19, 2010

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.

Monday, May 31, 2010

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!


Saturday, May 15, 2010


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
Presented through Arts Umbrella's Artist in Residence Program

Thursday, May 6, 2010

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