Main space at 918 Bathurst
Smooth wood floors, ambient light. Change rooms and washrooms on site.
January 4th & 5th, 2024
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 Winter Intensive. This workshop is lead by Tkaronto based Dance Artist Kylie Thompson, with special guests
JANELLE HACAULT (MTL)
KATHERINE SEMCHUK (TO)
This workshop 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.
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 leave 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
Early bird price: $99
(Deadline December 15th)
NEW: 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 transferred (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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Thursday, January 4th
9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcome
9:15 am - 11 am Technique/floor
11:00 am - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:45pm Partnering
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Guest workshop W/ Janelle Hacault
Friday, January 5th
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 - 12:45 pm Partnering
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Guest workshop W/ Katherine Semchuk
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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.
FACULTY
Kylie Thompson
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 professional workshops in Tkaronto since 2017. She is so grateful for community and is ecstatic to be offering another event in this beautiful city.
Floorwork/technique with Kylie: Kylie’s class moves swiftly and aims to take the body into a state of deep release in conversation with virtuosic expansion. We’ll move through lots of ways in and out of the floor, some improvisational tasks and phrase work that challenges the brain and body! Surface scans, threads, rolls and inversions will challenge the student’s physicality, body awareness, balance, mobility and agility. Bring your knee pads and clothing that offers good coverage.
Partnering and Group Movement Systems with Kylie: In this two part workshop we’ll begin by using improvisational settings to develop movement language and communication skills; drawing on contact improvisation and reflecting on the notion of consent: methods for developing a partner practice. Observation, experimentation and a willingness to share will be our focus. We’ll explore a multitude of ways to elevate, and create flight. And finally we will explore and investigate a phrase of choreography alongside a partner.
Janelle Hacault
Janelle Hacault is a Filipinx/French Canadian professional contemporary dance artist, choreographer, teacher, actor and embodiment coach based in Montréal, QC. She is a graduate of the Senior Professional Program at the School of Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg, trained actor, and holds a BA Honours degree from the University of Winnipeg.
She has had the privilege of working with Nafro Dance Productions, Ming Hon, Compagnie Entitey/Jason Martin, Trip The Light Fantastic (Kyra Jean Green), Charles-Alexis Desgagnés, Morgane LeTiec, Andrea Peña, Sylvain Émard Danse, Les 7 Doigts de la Main, Wynn Holmes, Tony Award nominated Sam Pinkleton and Ani Taj.
In 2021, she participated in Révolution's 3rd season, premièred her newest creation at Festival Quartiers Danses called Ce Moment Où… that is featured on MaTV, and co-created an original musical with collaborator/musician Jeremy Walmsley entitled Ships.
In 2022, Janelle has worked with Sylvain Émard Danse (SED) and 19 other dancers on the show Rhapsodie, presented by Danse Danse, performed Les Preludes (SED) in Trois-Rivières, and toured Annie: la comédie musicale (director Serge Denoncourt and choreographer Wynn Holmes) in Montréal and Quebec City for Just for Laughs.
She was co-founder of Nova Dance Collective, .6 Ricochet, and co-creator of thedancepost.org. Her work has travelling across Canada and part of America. In addition to contemporary dance, she has also choreographed for musicals such as Chicago, Grease, and Mamma Mia. Her past contemporary choreographic works include Ce Moment Où…, Shapeshifters, Falling (with Jason Martin), Imprimatur, Lament, and Overtaken.
In addition to performing, Janelle has a coaching practice and online Embodiment Session that mixes dance and meditation to increase awareness and movement wellness for people from all walks of life.
Texture of Emotions with Janelle Hacault
From breath to sensation to emotion, this 2.5 hour workshop is an embodied approach to movement generation and artistic expression. Beginning on the floor to wake up your senses through image-based exercises, we flow through a seamless sequence that brings you to your feet. You will literally move from the ground up. Once upright, you will utilize techniques to construct various corporal textures we will use later in the class. We then prepare the voice for full body activation and expanding the range of emotional availability. By working through two distinct games that demand both movement and sound, we explore the emotional world of expression through slow and explosive instinctual reactions. These techniques are designed to deepen your body-sense listening, impulse work, and stage presence all while having fun in a safe and supportive environment. Finally, we marry all skill sets explored in the workshop to craft a mini-solo you can come back to in your own practice and evolve. Bring a notebook and pen, your curiosity, and sense of play to open yourself past limiting habits and amplify your emotional range through voice and movement.
Katherine Semchuk
Katherine Semchuk is a dance-based collaborator, performer and instructor currently based in Tkaronto (Treaty 13 Territory). She is a graduate of Victoria School of the Arts and The School of Toronto Dance Theatre where she was the recipient of the Kathryn Ash Leadership Award. Katherine has had the pleasure of working with Good Women Dance Collective (GWDC), Kaeja d’Dance, Kylie Thompson, Mateo Galindo Torres, Meghann Michalsky, Mile Zero Dance, Nostos Collectives, Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Sasha Ivanochko, and Naishi Wang.
She feels liberated when she is able to act as a physical portal for her own and other collaborator's stories, ideas and sketches. She continues to investigate her own creative practice and has presented her work through numerous festivals and platforms including Feats Festival of Dance, Mile Zero Dance, and Expanse Festival. Katherine’s artistic work has been supported by Edmonton Arts Council and Alberta Foundation for the Arts.