Alberta Dance Alliance

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.

Skylines Dance & Film Series
2019-08-16 19:30 - 2019-08-17 21:00 (America/Edmonton) | Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, 111 12 Avenue SE, Calgary, AB, T2G 0Z9, Canada
Artists from across Canada will be presenting both live dance works, and dance on film pieces in our second presentation Skylines Dance & Film Series! Come see and support a variety of dance performances by a range of talented Canadian choreographers and filmmakers from Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, and Winnipeg!
FILM SCREENING & LIVE DANCE SHOW
August 16, 2019 at 7:30pm
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks Studio Theatre
111 12 Avenue SE, Calgary
Tickets are general admission and general seating. General Admission in advance: $25.00*
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/skylines-dance-film-series-tickets-66105392007
There will be tickets available for purchase at the door. Door Price $30.00
GALA EVENT
Saturday August 17, at 7:00pm
Our Gala with immersive film screenings will be held on Saturday August 17, at 7:00pm held at NVRLND Boutique space (1048 21 Ave SE, Calgary). Additional film screenings, live performances, and a live creation of a dance film from various Canadian artists will be featured! Admission is free (donations accepted) and beverages will be available for purchase.
Skylines Dance & Film Series is a platform organization, created to connect the artistic communities across the Canadian prairie provinces, and the entire country, in order to promote collaboration by offering opportunities for presentation and development.
*Ticket processing fees apply.

2-Day PBT & Ballet Workshop for Dance Students
2019-08-16 - 2019-08-17
Progressing Ballet Technique for Students
with Erin Madsen
August 16 & 17 · 2019
PBT and Ballet for Students
JUNIORS (Maximum 20 spots available)
Ages 9–12 (Grade 4 to Intermediate Foundation)
Two Days: $100 · One Day: $60
Junior Schedule:
11:00AM – 12:00PM – Jr PBT
12:15PM – 1:45PM – Jr Ballet
SENIORS (Maximum 20 spots available)
Ages 13+ (Intermediate through Pre-Professional)
Two Days: $120 · One Day: $75
Senior Schedule:
1:45PM – 3:00PM – Sr PBT
3:15PM – 4:45PM – Sr Ballet
PLEASE BRING
Stability ball (45–65cm)
Yoga mat (optional)
Proper dancewear worn for PBT with convertible tights – bare feet or grip socks (yoga socks)
Ballet attire for ballet class
High bun is best for PBT

AUDITIONS FOR BOLLYWOOD DANCE
2019-08-15
((((COMPANY AUDITIONS – BOLLYWOOD DANCE))))
Wanna be part of a grand, stunning and mesmerizing BOLLYWOOD DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA?? Here is your chance…
We are very excited to announce our Company Auditions!! Do you have any genre dance experience and want to join the SPARQ FAMILY for a year of Bollywood Dancing???? We are looking for committed and versatile dancers from any and all dance backgrounds. If you do not have an extensive dance background, no problem, we still encourage you to audition.

Please register for your audition spot by submitting your resume, dance reels/videos, head shots and any other inquiries to contact@sparqproductions.com

CALGARY MOVES
2019-08-12 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Edmonton)
Show us your dance moves (30 second clip) for a chance to be in the CALGARY MOVES video
Send in your videos to contact@sparqproductions.com by September 30th, 2019

Classical Ballet Division Summer Intensive
2019-08-12 - 2019-08-16 | Edge School, 33055 Township Rd 250, Calgary, Alberta, T3Z 1L4, Canada
Classes in: classical ballet, pointe, repertoire, contemporary, Pilates & Yoga

Shumka Summer Dance Camp - Overnight
2019-08-11 - 2019-08-17 | Camp Oselia, Range Road 53, Highway 16, Wabamun Lake, Alberta, Canada
Overnight X-Treme 2-Week MANIA – Senior: 14+ $650 + GST
Instructors: Shannon Gabrush, Andrii Demeschuk
Back by popular demand!
If you’re looking for an extreme dance experience, then the 2-week MANIA overnight camp is for you! Experience all the awesomeness that Overnight X-Treme has to offer, for two weeks. Learn from some of the finest dance instructors, including Andrii Demeschuk from the Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company.

Contemporary Dance Lab
2019-08-05 - 2019-08-09 | Edge School, 33055 Township Rd 250, Calgary, Alberta, T3Z 1L4, Canada
Technical & Artistic Development for Passionate Dancers

Shumka Summer Dance Camp - Overnight
2019-08-04 - 2019-08-10 | Camp Oselia, Range Road 53, Highway 16, Wabamun Lake, Alberta, Canada
Overnight X-Treme Junior: 10-13, Senior: 14+ $650 + GST
Junior Instructor: Shannon Gabrush
Senior Instructor: Serhij Koroliuk
Experience five to six hours per day of high-calibre Ukrainian dance training and regional choreography from Canada’s finest teachers and choreographers. Enjoy Ukrainian-themed activities including team challenges, water sports, meal themes, swimming, camp fires, and the famous Kolomeyka night with the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers. Delicious food, great fun, and memories and friendships to last a lifetime. Junior campers will learn three dances, and senior campers will learn four dances.
