Dance Workshops

Lighting Design with James Proudfoot

James Proudfoot is Vancouver’s leading lighting designer in dance and has designed for dances in festival formats to full evening performances. Learn the different ways that lighting can support your work and learn the terminology to effectively communicate your ideas to a lighting designer.

This hands-on workshop will take place in our black-box theatre (Faris Family Studio), where participants will have the opportunity to prepare for a lighting hang, learn about focusing lights, and how to use lighting to create different moods and looks, structure the space, and support the physical and thematic aspects of choreography.

Capacity is very limited, early registration strongly advised.

Contortion as Somatic Practice
Workshop Intensive with Andréane Leclerc

In order to demystify the movement and amplitude of the spine, this workshop is for body artists who wish to improve their flexibility; discover a new body technique; have new tools to integrate their flexibility into their practice; develop confidence and knowledge that will allow them to venture into a particular and specific work of the spine; start a new journey into the inner sensation of their body and open themselves to a new approach to it.

Being a contortionist does not mean being flexible. It is an accessible body technique that can be learned, worked on and developed over time. There is no secret. Contortion is a hyper-consciousness of the body’s inner sensations and an intimate dialogue with its limits – its allies. In a constant dialogue with one’s own body, contortion seeks to open rather than bend it. Without ever pushing back its limits, we will learn how to collaborate with them, in a total respect of the body.

These classes will be based on specific active flexibility and stretching exercises. We will listen to and serve the body in order to address posture and endurance and explore the possibilities of its amplitude.

• For advanced level / professional dance artists of any movement practice
• Participants must commit to the full intensive

Co-Presented by Corporeal Imago and The Dance Centre.

​​For more details: https://www.corpoimago.com/copy-of-training-2025

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