Running Piece by Grand Poney presented by Mile Zero Dance
2019-11-01 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Edmonton) | Westbury Theatre, 10330 84 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5H 2E3, Canada
Running Piece from Montreal’s Jacques Poulin-Denis AKA Grand Poney is a bold work for dancer and treadmill. On this confined yet infinite space, a man travels without leaving, constantly forced to go forward. He moves through the situations and moments that define us. On the path of humanity and civilization, or on the transit to work, we are the high hope joggers, the overly capable multi-taskers, and the compulsive lateness sufferers.
“Running Piece’s endless belt reminds me of the ouroboros, the cyclical symbol of a snake eating its own tail. This paradox, where life and death mutually feed on each, reminds me of our perverse desire to somehow master time,” says Poulin-Denis.
Poulin-Denis is a composer, choreographer, director and performer. Undertaking projects that blur the boundaries between dance, music and theater, he creates humanistic and uncanny works that are both sensorial and thought provoking.
Based in Montreal, Grand Poney was established by Jacques Poulin-Denis, and has performed Running Piece recently in France, Germany, and Italy. Originally from Saskatoon, this will be Poulin-Denis’ first time performing in Edmonton, while taking Running Piece on a prairie Canadian tour. He will perform in Edmonton for one night only!

Flamenco Master Classes with Farru
2019-11-01 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Edmonton)
Flamenco dancer Antonio Fernandez Montoya, Farru, of the legendary Farruco family, will be on tour with The Paco de Lucia Project (performing in Calgary October 30 and St. Albert on October 31st). In collaboration with Flamencos por el Mundo, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to study with him in Edmonton on November 1st.
Some previous flamenco experience required.
Friday, November 1st, 2019
6:00 – 7:00 – Beg/Int level – 1hr
7:00 – 9:00 – Int/Adv level – 2hrs
EARLYBIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE – October 18th
Early Bird rate – $40/hr
After Oct 18th – $45/hr
More Information and Registration here –
https://flamencojane.com/farru-masterclass/

Mari Osanai: Noguchi Taiso Workshop (Mile Zero Dance)
2019-10-30 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 ST NW, Edmonton, AB, T5H 2E3, Canada
MZD MOVEMENT INTENSIVES
Accessible movement workshops taught by world-renowned instructors. For beginners and professional dancers.
FALL October 27-30 | Sunday 11am -4pm, Monday-Wednesday 10am – 1pm
Noguchi Taiso Workshop with Mari Osanai
$175 for all four classes or $50/day
Mari Osanai will be traveling from Japan to perform and teach at Mile Zero Dance. Noguchi Taiso (Water Body movement) has been widely appreciated and incorporated/integrated into Butoh movement practice.
Mari Osanai’s workshop focuses on Noguchi Taiso combined with the influences of her early training in Tai Chi, western dance methods, traditional folk dance in Aomori, Japan (her birthplace), and the connection between one’s thoughts and sensation of weight. Osanai’s approach to movement research and exploration begins with a heightened awareness of gravity’s influence on the body and the body’s connection with the center of the earth. Exercises in the workshop train the body to embrace its weight and heighten its sensitivity to move from its most relaxed and receptive state. Starting with images, such as washing the body with water, air, sunlight, workshop participants will discover the body’s vital energies rooted in its inherent hydrodynamics. Movement and form result as participants ingest imagery inside their bodies and allow the changes to shift the body’s interior.
Registration closes Friday, October 25. Phone 780 424 1573/ admin@milezerodance.com
This workshop is made possible through the generous of Alberta Dance Alliance

Ballet Edmonton presents Chapter ONE
2019-10-27 14:30 - 16:00 (America/Edmonton) | Triffo Theatre in Allard Hall, 11110 104 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K1M9, Canada
Choreography by Shay Kuebler and Serge Bennathan
Shay Kuebler has presented, choreographed and directed his energetic, physical work for The American Dance Festival, Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, Moment Factory and Decidedly Jazz Danceworks.
As part of the mixed program, we welcome Vancouver-based Serge Bennathan. Serge is the Artistic Director of his own company producing full-length works for Les Productions Figlio.

Oblivion by Mari Osanai presented by Mile Zero Dance
2019-10-26 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Edmonton) | Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 ST NW, Edmonton, AB, T5H 2E3, Canada
This season, Mile Zero Dance (MZD) is harnessing the power and creativity of the human body in the fight against climate change. Virtuoso Japanese dancer and choreographer, Mari Osanai, will open our Dance Crush series with her body-mind movement piece Oblivion.
Osanai’s post-butoh dance transforms space and time in a deep ritual of embodiment. She has been touring North America and performing this piece as a solo production featuring masks, doll stage art, and lighting design created with visual artist Shohei Yamashita who will be traveling to Edmonton from Japan exclusively for this show.
“Mari’s movement is fluid like water, and her effect on viewers is incredibly positive and emotional,” says Gerry Morita, Artistic Director of MZD. “We are thrilled to have her and Shohei in Edmonton next month. Edmontonians are in for a treat.”
Osanai’s heightened awareness of gravity’s influence on the body and her deep connection with the natural world is based on her technique of Noguchi Taiso—a form of physical training that supports new ways of movement to improve efficiency while letting go of unnecessary tensions. The performance also interweaves dance styles such as ballet, modern dance, jazz, Tai Chi, and traditional folk dance.
Tickets are $20 for members and $25 for non-members. For tickets, visit: https://oblivion-mari-osanai.eventbrite.ca. For more information, visit: http://milezerodance.com/2017/2019-international-dance-crush/
About Mile Zero Dance

DIWALI DHAMAAKA
2019-10-26 19:00 - 2019-10-27 19:00 (America/Edmonton) | The Magnolia Banquet Hall, 5075 Falconridge Blvd NE #900,, Calgary, AB T3J 3K9, AB, T3J 3K9, Canada
SPARQ PRODUCTIONS INC, is proud to host the 2nd Annual DIWALI DHAMAAKA!!! A Dinner Dance to celebrate the East Indian culture!!
Diwali, is the East Indian ‘Festival of Lights’ It signifies the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair. It is one of the most important festivals celebrated in India.
This year we would like to celebrate Diwali with Calgarians by producing an absolutely amazing event for people from any and all ethnic backgrounds to come in, celebrate and enjoy the Indian Culture. The event will include a very unique and traditional welcoming-in of guests, delicious East Indian appetizers, dinner and desserts, stunning and mesmerizing entertainment, party favours, door prizes, henna, photobooth and DJ Dance.
Dress Code: FORMAL WEAR
Tickets:
Adults $70
Kids (Ages 5-10) $40
Tania/Vishal 403-246-5739 l 403-708-9900
Neelum Baid 403-470-1078
Tickets are purchased by sending in an etransfer to
contact@sparqproductions.com
NO REFUNDS FOR TICKET PURCHASES
PLEASE DO NOT DRINK & DRIVE

Dancing in the early years- Community Workshop Series
2019-10-21 17:00 - 21:30 (America/Edmonton) | La cite francophone, 8627 91 St (Office #12), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
As part of the Alberta Dance Alliance- Community Workshop Series, on October 21, you are invited to attend this workshop for educators to enhance knowledge on how to integrate dance in your curriculum following the practices developed by Foolish Operations and its artistic director, Julie Lebel. Register Now!
This workshop is for educators, parents or artists of various disciplines working with the very young to explore benefits and strategies for more dance in their curriculum. The workshop starts with a conversation and exchange on the topic of dance in the early years to assess the needs of the group and create a community of peers. We will explore Foolish Operations’ strategies for relationship-based dance exercises that respond to children’s attachment needs and respects the physical developmental stages of children in the early years. The workshop will close with self-care relaxing movement exercises for caregivers.
Julie Lebel graduated with a B.F.A. in Dance and is a choreographer specializing in community-engaged arts and dance in the early years.
She will also be presenting her show Paper Playground at the Arden Theatre in St Albert from October 17 to 19.
Please RSVP and register for the workshop by September 30.
Location: La Girandole, #12, 8627 91 Street. Edmonton
Date: October 21
Times: 5 to 7PM (atelier en français), 7:30 à 9:30 PM (bilingual workshop)
Cost: 40$
What to bring: water bottle, confortable clothes to move and dance, notebook
To register: administration@lagirandole.com
More information about Foolish Operations
More information about La Girandole

LSIDA Choreographic Intensive: Workshop Weekend Two-Day Two
2019-10-20 13:00 - 16:30 (America/Edmonton) | Danceworks Dance Academy, 461 10 St N, Lethbridge, AB T1H 2C6, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1H 2C6, Canada
Lethbridge Society of Independent Dance Artists in conjunction with Sasha Ivanochko of Dancers’ Studio West is excited to provide a Choreographic Intensive Workshop Series. Workshop Weekend One-Day Two dates and times are Sunday October 20th (1:00-4:30pm) Location TBA. An informal showing is TBA in November 2019 at the Trianon Art Gallery. To register e-mail class@lsida.ca . Early Bird price $150.00 before Aug 9th, 2019

LSIDA Choreographic Intensive: Workshop Weekend Two-Day One
2019-10-19 16:30 - 19:00 (America/Edmonton) | Danceworks Dance Academy, 461 10 St N, Lethbridge, AB T1H 2C6, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1H 2C6, Canada
Lethbridge Society of Independent Dance Artists in conjunction with Sasha Ivanochko of Dancers’ Studio West is excited to provide a Choreographic Intensive Workshop Series. Workshop Weekend Two-Day One dates and times are Saturday October 18th (4:30-7:00pm) Location TBA. An informal showing is TBA in November 2019 at the Trianon Art Gallery. To register e-mail class@lsida.ca .Early Bird price $150.00 before Aug 9th, 2019.

Ballet Class
2019-10-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | La cite francophone, 8627 91 St (Office #12), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The ballet class, of 6 sessions, starts this Thursday, September 12 to October 17, 2019!
Be here with us!

Alberta Showcase 2019
2019-10-17 09:00 - 2019-10-20 15:00 (America/Edmonton) | Dow Centennial Centre – Shell Theatre, 8700 84 Street, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, T8L 4P5, Canada
Performing artists need live audiences. Presenters need artists for their audiences. Presenters do not always have the opportunity to see artists from other parts of the province or the country. That’s where Alberta Showcase comes in.
Each year Alberta Showcase brings together presenters, performers and promoters for one jam-packed weekend of live performance, networking, and professional development. This explosive event allows presenters and promoters to see performances before they book the artists.
Over 40 artists will perform excerpts of their best work in a variety of settings throughout the weekend. You will have the opportunity to meet these artists in our Exhibition Hall, a trade fair where business and art mingle. Come join us for a weekend that will fuel your excitement for the performing arts in Alberta. #ABShowcase

Alberta Showcase

FLUID FEST
2019-10-15 20:00 - 2019-10-27 23:00 (America/Edmonton) | Various venues | DJD Dance Centre (111 12 Ave SE) | cSPACE King Edward (1721 29 Ave SW) | Dickens Pub (1000 9 Ave SW) | Central Library (800 3rd St SE), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BE MOVED. BE CURIOUS. BE FLUID.
Fluid Fest brings artists and audiences together to stir the city of Calgary with contemporary art, dance and physical performance. For two weeks, celebrate outstanding performance and the vast spectrum of what dance can be. Featuring extraordinary local, national and international artists, Fluid Fest ignites the city with performances, workshops, artist talks, and happenings to inspire and connect.
Visit fluidfest.com for the full festival lineup and schedule.

Pre-Professional/Professional Theatre Dance (19+ years)
2019-09-30 19:45 - 21:15 (America/Edmonton) | #105 125 Carleton Drive, 105 125 Carleton Drive, St. Albert, Alberta, T8N 3S6, Canada
Have you recently graduated from a university or college theatre program or are you an alumnus and still feel you need more dance training? Have you been working in the theatre world and need to brush up on your dance skills? Are you in need of getting into shape for you next big dance show or audition? Then this is the class for you! Each session will take you through a guided jazz dance warm up with strength and flexibility training followed by jazz dance progressions and combinations for theatre dance.

Ballet Edmonton BE Home Tour
2019-09-21 10:00 - 2019-09-22 16:00 (America/Edmonton)
Ballet Edmonton Home Tour (formerly Citie Home Tour) returns for its seventh year this fall – mark your calendars to join us on Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22 to view 5 spectacular homes and get all your creative inspo in one weekend! Tickets available here.

Vinok Worldance Open House and Auditions
2019-09-13 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Edmonton) | Chateau Louis Conference Centre, 11420 117 ST NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5G 3A1, Canada
Vinok Worldance is hosting an Open House and Audition on Friday, September 13, 2019!
Come and experience the variety of Cultural dance performed by Vinok.

Vinok has paid and apprentice positions available for the 2019/2020 season.
Try a class and meet some of the company!

Visit vinok.ca or call 780-454.3739 to register and find out more info!

LSIDA Choreographic Intensive: Workshop Weekend One-Day Two
2019-09-08 13:00 - 16:30 (America/Edmonton) | Danceworks Dance Academy, 461 10 St N, Lethbridge, AB T1H 2C6, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1H 2C6, Canada
Lethbridge Society of Independent Dance Artists in conjunction with Sasha Ivanochko of Dancers’ Studio West is excited to provide a Choreographic Intensive Workshop Series. Workshop Weekend One-Day Two dates and times are Sunday September 8th (1:00-4:30pm) Location TBA. An informal showing is TBA in November 2019 at the Trianon Art Gallery. To register e-mail class@lsida.ca .Early Bird price $150.00 before Aug 9th, 2019

LSIDA Choreographic Intensive: Workshop Weekend One-Day One
2019-09-07 04:30 - 19:00 (America/Edmonton) | Danceworks Dance Academy, 461 10 St N, Lethbridge, AB T1H 2C6, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1H 2C6, Canada
Lethbridge Society of Independent Dance Artists in conjunction with Sasha Ivanochko of Dancers’ Studio West is excited to provide a Choreographic Intensive Workshop Series. Workshop Weekend One- Day One dates and times are Saturday September 7th (4:30-7:00pm) Location TBA. An informal showing is TBA on November 2019 at the Trianon Art Gallery. Register by e-mail at class@lsida.ca . Early Bird price $150.00 before Aug 9th,2019.

Ballet Edmonton Summer Intensive with Wen Wei Wang
2019-08-30 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Edmonton) | Ruth Carse Centre for Dance, 11205-107 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Alberta, T5H 0Y2, Canada
Join us for a challenging technical and artistic experience for intermediate and advanced dancers aged 12-and up.
Ballet Edmonton’s Summer intensive offers diverse technical training to prepare young dancers for the professional contemporary ballet world.
This intensive will include technique, improve and conditioning. Classes will also include learning sections of Ballet Edmonton repertoire from our 2018/19 season. These two-week sessions are an immersive experience that will explore advanced level technical classes in order to give students the comprehensive tools that apply to the creative process.
Program includes: ballet, contemporary, martial arts, conditioning and repertoire.
For more information:Karissa@balletedmonton.ca To Register: Sarah@balletedmonton.ca

Genée International Ballet Competition returns to Toronto - Final
2019-08-29 19:30 - 23:59 (America/Toronto)
The Royal Academy of Dance’s Genée International Ballet Competition will be returning to Toronto from August 20-29, for the first time since the memorable competition there in 2008. See the trailer.
The event will see hugely talented young ballet dancers compete for prizes, and it is a fantastic opportunity to see future stars dance iconic variations from classical ballet repertoire, as well as the competition’s commissioned choreography by Gioconda Barbuto. Many of the competition’s alumni have gone on to fantastic careers, such as Alex Wong, Celine Gittens, Nicole Ciapponi and Alexandra MacDonald, to companies such as Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, Alberta Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, amongst many others across the world.
The Judges of the Genée will include Karen Kain (Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada), Dame Monica Mason (Former Director of The Royal Ballet) and Mikko Nissinen (Artistic Director of Boston Ballet). The event will be hugely exciting, with two days of semi-finals at Canada’s National Ballet School on August 26 & 27, and the final at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on August 29.
The Genée International Ballet Competition is an exciting and unique event, full of talent and passion from the dancers competing. Tickets are now on sale – click here to buy. Be quick to secure the best seats for the final and the semi-finals.
SEMI-FINALS
August 26 & 27, 10.30am
Canada’s National Ballet School, Betty Oliphant Theatre
Tickets $50 – $85
FINAL
August 29, 7.30pm
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
Tickets $50 – $175

Genée International Ballet Competition returns to Toronto - Semi-Finals
2019-08-27 10:30 - 23:59 (America/Edmonton)

Woezo Africa: Afro Active Fitness
2019-08-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Edmonton) | Alberta Ballet, 141 18 Ave SW, CALGARY, ALBERTA, T3A5J1, Canada
Afro Active Fitness
Afro Active Fitness is designed to educate participants in African dance while incorporating high intensity movements and routines to provide a full-body fitness experience. Movements that challenge flexibility, strength, balance and aerobic endurance using elements of traditional and modern African dance. Push the limits of your body and, most importantly, have fun!

Afro Active Fitness
(16+)
Monday, July 8 – August 26 (7:00 – 8:00 pm)
Note: No class on August 5, 2019
$140.00/7 weeks or $20/drop in
Space is limited. Register today!

Mile Zero Dance presents: Rewriting Distance Performance Intensive
2019-08-26 10:00 - 2019-08-30 15:00 (America/Edmonton)
What is Rewriting Distance? Rewriting Distance is a performance/workshop practice, created by Lin Snelling and Guy Cools with photographer Michael Reinhart that allows participants to tell stories, dance, and write.
History | Rewriting Distance received a SSHRC Dissemination Grant and in 2012/13 and toured to Limerick and Dublin in Ireland, Antwerp in Belgium, and Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton in Canada. It was performed at Tanzfabrik in Berlin, and toured to Vienna, Antwerp, Gent and Halifax in 2013/14. In 2019 Snelling received a SSHRC partnership Grant in collaboration with Mile Zero Dance and a Canada Council grant and will present Rewriting Distance in Edmonton and Halifax
This new period of Rewriting Distance is about revisiting Rewriting Distance continues a new phase with this proposed residency. We are interested in returning to places we feel particularly connected to because of the people we have met there and the community we discovered. What does it mean to return? We would very much like to explore this with the residency, performances, symposium and workshops in Edmonton.
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Performance Intensive – Mile Zero Dance
10 am-3 pm each day (lunch 12-1pm)
Monday August 26
GUY COOLS – Dance and Dramaturgy
This seminar/workshop will offer practical tools and exercises to reflect upon, evaluate and eventually transform and improve the participants’ creative process.
Tuesday August 27
STEPHANIE CUMMING – Lecture/performance
Redneck to Cyborg: A Shared Transformation.
This performance/lecture will focus on how this story of ‘transformations’ might be relevant to artists, academics and Edmonton community members.
Wednesday August 28
PIET DEFRAEYE – Provocation and Performance
This workshop will stage a provocation for the McCauley neighbourhood where Mile Zero
Dance is located.
Thursday August 29
GERRY MORITA – Radical Risk
Improvisation as Immediate and Communicative
This workshop will create a participatory context for improvisation as a powerful act that can be shared with anybody in any location.
Friday August 30
LIN SNELLING – MICHAEL REINHART – Draw to Perform
This workshop will explore alternative ways to make marks, draw and express, while presenting various strategies for forming a dialogue between drawing, sound, movement, process and performance.
$150 – Full Workshop / $50 per day
For more information: snelling@ualberta.ca or info@milezerodance.com

Water at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival
2019-08-25 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton)
Viva Dance presents a compilation of contemporary dance pieces reflecting on the miracle of water; it’s potential to destroy and it’s power to sustain life. In this highly reviewed show, the incredibly athletic cast of dancers takes the stage with equal parts grace and ferocity!

Genée International Ballet Competition returns to Toronto
2019-08-25

Rewriting Distance
2019-08-24 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Edmonton) | Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 ST NW, Edmonton, AB, T5H 2E3, Canada
Mile Zero Dance (MZD) presents: Rewriting Distance
Performances of Rewriting Distance
August 21, 22, 23 at 8 pm
August 24 matinée at 2 pm
Mile Zero Dance
10816 – 95 Street, Edmonton AB, T5H 2E3
$15 MZD members
$20 non-members
What is Rewriting Distance?
Rewriting Distance is a performance/workshop practice, created by Lin Snelling and Guy Cools with photographer Michael Reinhart that allows participants to tell stories, dance, and write.
This period of Rewriting Distance continues to be about returning … going back to places we have been/and collaborating with artists we have worked with before, but in a new site-specific location. This performance is also accompanied by a Symposium at the Timms Centre for the Arts, and a Performance Intensive at Mile Zero Dance.
The performances of Rewriting Distance investigate what it means to revisit a place through cycles of dancing, speaking, reading, writing, and watching that recreates a live history of the places and communities in which the performance takes place. Cools and Snelling initiated this artistic project originally based on walking through cities after meeting in 2003 during the Vooruit Danse en Avant event presented by Agora de la danse in Montreal.
“This performance cycle of Rewriting Distance is based on returning to places where we have been and continuing to collaborate with artists in the community,” says Snelling. “What are we telling each other now? What are the various and multiple narratives of a group of people that come together?”
Performers:
Guy Cools, Stephanie Cumming, Piet Defraeye, Gerry Morita, Lin Snelling.
For tickets, visit: https://rewritingdistance-performance.eventbrite.ca

Woezo Africa: African Dance Dynamics
2019-08-24 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Edmonton) | Alberta Ballet, 141 18 Ave SW, CALGARY, ALBERTA, T3A5J1, Canada
Improve strength, tone, flexibility, coordination and control from the pleasures of movement, sharing the joy and passion of the interaction between rhythm and motion by getting the whole body moving. This class begins with a series of warm-ups and isolations that explore the diversity in movement designed to prepare the body for choreography. Featuring a variety of uplifting current African rhythms from Nigeria, Congo, Ghana and Ivory Coast. Dance to the rhythm of the world.

African Dance Dynamics
(9-12 years)
Saturday, July 6 – July 24 (10:30 – 11:30 am)
$160.00/8 weeks or $20/drop in

Space is limited. Register today!

Woezo Africa: Kids On The Move
2019-08-24 09:30 - 10:15 (America/Edmonton) | Alberta Ballet, 141 18 Ave SW, CALGARY, ALBERTA, T3A5J1, Canada
Kids On The Move
Using improvisation, movement and storytelling, kids can immerse themselves in the colourful world of African culture with no dance background required. All they need is two feet and their imagination! Contact us to enroll your child in an upcoming class.
Kids on the move
(5-8 years)
Saturday, July 6 – August 24 (9:30 – 10:15 am)
$115.00/8 weeks or $15/drop in
Space is limited. Register today!

CNADE Dance Educator's Conference Edmonton 2019
2019-08-20 09:30 - 16:30 (America/Edmonton) | University of Alberta, 1-047 Lister Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H6, Canada
Register today for our AUG 20, 2019 conference at the BEAUTIFUL UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA CAMPUS in EDMONTON. Dance Studio Teachers, Dance Studio Owners, Early Childhood Educators, Classroom Teachers and all those aspiring to be (must be at least 18 years of age) are welcome.
Our conference is unlike any other. This conference isn’t about trying to sell you costumes or name dropping choreographers. This conference is a dance education experience. We discuss relevant topics in 21st century dance education, and dissect what it is we are doing as dance educators in our classrooms. We will provide you with thought provoking discussions on everything from safe dance practices to managing your dance classes. If you are passionate about being the best teacher you can be, and you care about making the most of your time with your dancers in the studio, then this conference is for you!
Conference participants will be greeted at 9:30AM with complimentary coffee and tea. The morning session will begin with a floor barre class followed by an improvisation exercise. The floor barre class is an excellent way to introduce technique and conditioning for dancers both in schools and at studios. Following the floor barre class, the morning sessions will engage both studio and classroom teachers through sessions inspired by the creative process, technique and classroom management. The afternoon session will begin with a class on mindfulness and the choreographic process. In the afternoon conference participants will partake in stretch class and the day will conclude with a special guest speaker. Our mobile shop will also be set up so you can purchase all of our resources at the conference. You will leave the conference with a plethora of exercises, activities and strategies and skills, just enough to revive your engines and re inspire you to be the best dance educator you can be. Dress comfortably bring a yoga mat & resistance band (we have some available for purchase 🙂) and a bagged lunch or lunch money if you want to try some of the local eateries.
To register, please fill out the registration form on our website. cnadedu.com
After clicking submit you will be directed to our CNADE Shop to complete your purchase. Only limited spots remaining so register today!!!!
For studio owners or school boards sending more than five teachers to the conference, please contact us directly to receive our group rates.

NEED ACCOMMODATIONS?
HOTEL ROOMS ON CAMPUS START AT $109 BOOK HERE https://conference.ualberta.ca/accommodation

WHAT YOU GET:

CNADE GIFT BAG
MORNING COFFEE/TEA
CONFERENCE TICKET

Interactive Symposium – Ecologies of Together
2019-08-19 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Edmonton) | University of Alberta, 1-047 Lister Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H6, Canada
Mile Zero Dance presents: Interactive Symposium with Thea Patterson and Jeremy Gordaneer as part of the Rewriting Distance Residency
Monday August 19, 9 am-6 pm
University of Alberta/Timms Rehearsal Hall
Free
Featuring speaker and performers:
Cindy Baker
Guy Cools
Tyson Frencheater and Camille Renarhd
Rebecca John
Xavia Publius
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Ecologies of Together: An Interactive Symposium proposes a “gathering” where academics and artists come together to heighten dialogue and practice around experiential learning and embodied performance practice.
The day will be divided into two parts. The morning will be devised as a working performative action and participatory event. The second part of the day will turn from participation to reception through performances, lectures and hybrid forms of each.
Morning session: Choreographies of Togethering (9:30 am-1:00 pm)
Togethering proposes a space where participant practitioners and researchers move through a scored series of activations and tasks that create a performative relational frame where many actions co-exist to create an ecology of shared space, which becomes a choreography of multiple voices and actions overlapping and resonating in the spaces between them. Participants will be invited to join a simple performance score that includes dancing, writing, assisting each other, reading, drawing, listening, looking, talking, gazing, spectating, and potential others. This event, open to anyone with an interest in the intersection of performance, theory and community agency, will allow participants to engage with the proposition in the manner and degree they want, and to maintain agency over their experience. ParticIpants are encouraged to wear comfy clothes and bring writing and reading material.
1:00 pm-2:30 pm – lunch
Afternoon session: Together in reception (2:30 pm-6:00 pm)
The second part of the day will turn from participation to reception as six invited guests share their artistic research, theoretical work, and performative practices as sites for affective and alternative reception. This event will follow a dramaturgy of the senses that will traverse horizontality and verticality, seeing and not seeing, and sound and silence. The invited speakers will be asked to define the terms of their own presentations based on how to engage the audience reception of the work through multi-sensorial access points.
The presenters will be:
Cindy Baker
Guy Cools
Tyson Frencheater and Camille Renharhd
Rebecca John
Xavia Publius
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The TIMMS CENTRE for the ARTS is located on the northeast corner of 112 Street and 87 Ave. We are readily accessible by automobile or transit. The underground parking entrance is located on the east side of 112th Street.
Part of Rewriting Distance 2019 – Edmonton
What is Rewriting Distance?
Rewriting Distance is a performance/workshop practice, created by Lin Snelling and Guy Cools with photographer Michael Reinhart that allows participants to tell stories, dance, and write.
This period of Rewriting Distance continues to be about returning … going back to places we have been/and collaborating with artists we have worked with before, but in a new site-specific location. This performance is also accompanied by a Symposium at the Timms Centre for the Arts, and a Performance Intensive at Mile Zero Dance.

Summer Intensive
2019-08-19 - 2019-08-23 | Edge School, 33055 Township Rd 250, Calgary, Alberta, T3Z 1L4, Canada
Master Your Technique: Jazz, Contemporary, Lyrical, Artistic Development Classes, Modern, Ballet & Progressive Ballet Technique.
