Main space at 918 Bathurst
Smooth wood floors, ambient light. Change rooms and washrooms on site.
October 25th & 26th, 2023
9am-4pm daily
918 Bathurst | Culture, Arts, Media and Education Centre
918 Bathurst St. Toronto, Canada
NEW THIS YEAR:
Plan your intensive training for the whole season and save $$$$
above: maya gale-buncel and emilie brunelle, ally caruso, natalia arancibia, keith morino’s class. photos by kylie and adri chAVEZ.
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Welcome, dance artists.
Join us for our 2-DAY Fall Intensive. This workshop is lead by Tkaronto based Dance Artist Kylie Thompson, with special guests
emily spearing
&
ryan lee
t h i s w o r k s h o p is geared towards:
emerging and professional dancers
current dance students
It is a safe and welcoming space for all. It is a place for dance artists of varying stages of their training/career to come together: exchange, train and network.
Some of our 2022-2023 season intensives sold out. Don’t miss your opportunity to be part of these energetic events.
Not sure if this workshop is a fit for you? Send us an email with a recent video of you dancing and a short letter of intent, and any questions you may have.
2 d a y s /////of intensive contemporary dance theatre training so that you’ll head into the fall feeling inspired with new tools and thought processes, and new connections in our industry. We will train with a focus on floorwork, partnering, composition and other tools for the current contemporary dance theatre industry.
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The intensive will take place inside the beautiful main space at 918 Bathurst Centre.
918 Bathurst St.
Toronto, ON
TTC: 5 minute walk from Bathurst Station
Parking: paid parking directly in front of building (between 10am-4pm), free parking on side streets in the area (check signage!)
Amenities: Cafés and food in the area.
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Regular Price: $129+HST
Current Students: $109+HST
Registration is now conducted through this website. Payment forms accepted are credit card or paypal. Kylie Thompson Creative is a registered business and HST will be applied at checkout. Payment must be received in order to reserve your spot. Once payment is received it is non-refundable, but can be REGISTER HEREtransferred (must be arranged by the student).
Keep your receipt! Tuition is eligible for partial reimbursement through the CADA-East Training Subsidy Program.
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Wednesday, October 25th
9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcome
9:15 am - 11 am Technique/floor
11:00 am - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 1:00 pm Partnering
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Guest workshop W/ Ryan Lee
Thursday, October 26th
9:00 am - 9:15 am Arrival/journal
9:15 am - 11 am Technique/floor
11:00 am - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 1:00 pm Partnering
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Guest workshop W/ Emily Spearing
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What if I sign up but then book a job or something else comes up? Can I get a refund?
We cannot offer refunds due to the fact that renting of space and booking guest instructors is costly and we must secure a committment from participants to ensure the feasibility of these workshops. You may, however, transfer your reservation to someone else, but this is your responsibility. We will be accepting registration up until the start of the intensive, but cannot guarantee space will be available.
What happens if I miss part of the workshop? Can I get a partial refund?
For reasons mentioned above, no partial refunds are available. However, we know life happens and if you are unable to make a certain portion of the intensive, just let us know.
Can I sign up for workshops with individual faculty members?
Initially, no. We prioritize registration for full participation. Check our instagram the week leading up to the event, as we sometimes advertise drop-ins if space allows.
What if a faculty member is unable to attend? Can I get a refund?
The nature of our industry is that work may come up last minute and we respect our faculty’s right to accept other work. We cannot give refunds in this scenario. We promise we will do our utmost to ensure a wonderful replacement faculty is found.
Drop-ins and single days are now available!
FACULTY
Independent Dance Artist Ryan Lee graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He has been fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Emily Molnar, Guillaume Côté, Kevin O’Day, Stephen Pier, D.A. Hoskins, Darryl Tracy, Sharon B Moore, Julia Sasso and Menaka Thakkar. Ryan has worked for such companies as Human Body Expression, ProArteDanza, Toronto Dance Theatre, Kaeja d’Dance, Anandam Dancetheatre, inDANCE, Larchaud Dance Project, Transcendance, The Chimera Project and TOES for Dance. Ryan has toured internationally and has been nominated for Dora Mavor Moore awards for outstanding ensemble performance – 2011 In between by Roberto Campanella and Robert Glumbek and 2018 for Chasing the Path by Hanna Kiel.
Ryan has been commissioned to make works by ProArteDanza, Anandam DanceTheatre, ACE DanceTheatre, The Emerging Artist Intensive, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, Toronto Metropolitan University, George Brown College, Centennial College, Dance Ontario, Etobicoke School for the Arts and The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. In 2019 Ryan co founded The Platform, a Toronto based collective focused on artistic creation and collaboration.
Ryan Lee’s “Centre”
Partnering methodology with Ryan: Contemporary/partnering class will focus on bringing awareness to our authentic bodies and the space and others around us. We will explore muscular tone, sensation, connection to weight and gravity, leadership, initiation, both individually and with shared bodies, identifying systems of support, power and physical efficiency. Using set work and structured improvisations we will allow the body to find personal impulse to the shared energy around us.
Emily Spearing (she/her), from London Ontario, received her education at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Upon graduating, Spearing worked as a freelance dancer for various companies, collectives and independent choreographers in Toronto and Halifax. She then went on to attend the post-graduate International Choreographic Exchange Program at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). After completing the program she was invited for a year long Artistic Residency at SEAD where she also worked as rehearsal director for the academy. Emily has been able to present her works at New Faces New Dances Festival, Dance Ontario’s Dance Weekend, Dance Works Co-Works, Edmonton’s NextFest, New Blue Dance Festival and London Fringe Festival.
Experimental Creation with Emily: My interests as a creative lie in making art that speaks to the human experience; arousing emotions and offering an audience a sense of reflection. Pulling inspiration from personal experiences and offering insight of who we are, where we are and how we are affected by the world around us. I aspire to push boundaries, research curiosities and connect with others through movement, performance, words and emotions. I put as much value on performance as I do on movement, always considering my relationship with an audience. I am interested in the blend of theatre and performance with dance, bringing in the use of text, theatrics and often humour. I feel it’s a necessity for me to make art because I have so much I need to say and share and without it the world is a smaller place.
In this workshop we will take a look inside what my creative practice looks like. We will do exercises in automatic writing and text generation, movement and theatrical based improvised tasks, and movement invention and crafting. We will write, play, laugh a lot, make fools of ourselves, share thoughts, opinions and ideas and most of all dance.
Kylie Thompson (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary performer, creator and educator residing in Toronto, Ontario (Treaty 13 territory). She considers herself an ally to the BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ communities and is committed to ongoing education, conversation and action towards equality and decolonisation of Western Dance practices. She believes that dance is simply movement language; and holds a unique perspective in the dance industry as she continues to train in street dance forms as well as contemporary theatre/ballet based techniques. She has a wealth of experience in both contemporary spaces as well as the commercial industry; some of her credits include Dance:Made in Canada, TIFF, DanceWorks, Barenaked Ladies, Kiesza, and more. She has been teaching floorwork and partnering to professional level students for 5 years. She has trained in the US, Austria and Italy with such companies as Alias Dance Project, Gadfly, Ultima Vez and Vim Vigor. She has been hosting various sizes and lengths of community workshops in Tkaronto since 2017. She is so grateful for community and is ecstatic to be offering another event in this beautiful city.