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Adult Classes

  • Hand Balancing Workshop with Samantha Halas
    Date: Sunday June 18th, 2023
    Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am 
    Cost: $50.00 + GST
    Registration Deadline:  Sunday June 11th at 11:59pm
     
    Prerequisite: none, this in an ALL LEVEL workshop
     
    This workshop is about BALANCE, learning how to find the center of your balance and increasing the strength, alignment and range of motion on top of that center point. We will focus on shoulder flexibility, toe point and middle splits to help with alignment in handstands and handstand presses. We will learn drills that increase awareness and teach us how to isolate and engage our muscles in ways that will make us lighter and facilitate lifting our body weight with ease.  For more advanced hand-balancers we will train for fluid movements and foundations for shifting on to our one arm balances.  We will analyze common mistakes as well as key insights for self-training that will help us avoid generating counter-productive habits. In this class we will use balancing as a magnificent way to become in tune with our body and evolve our relationship with the floor. With partners we will learn how to spot and help our friends in their progress while using this outside eye to improve our own understanding.
     
    More about Samantha Halas:
    Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Samantha Halas has traveled the world to study circus arts including China, San Francisco, Mongolia and across Canada. Now based in Montreal, her latest accomplishment, creating Deep Dish, a one woman show, she has performed in both Winnipeg (Gas Station Arts Center) and Montreal (TOHU, Mainline Theater).  Samantha has performed for circuses including Street Circus’s Throwback at Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Haut Vol,  Luna Caballera, the Underground Circus, Labo Cirque, Chile's En La Cuerda, Balancing on the Edge of Toronto, has toured Canada and Europe with the Red Sky Performance’s production of Backbone and has appeared as a featured performer with The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. You can catch her playing a major role in Elevator Game, a horror movie that will be released in spring 2023.  She teaches social circus, as well as coaching professional and semi-professional circus artists using circus as a medium for social change as well as having produced and written numerous narrative driven cabarets in Winnipeg as Frostbite Circus. 
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  • Contortion Technique for Flexibility Workshop with Samantha Halas
    Date: Sunday June 18th, 2023
    Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 
    Cost: $65.00 + GST
    Registration Deadline:  Sunday June 11th at 11:59pm
     
    Prerequisite: none, this in an ALL LEVEL workshop
     
    Ever feel stuck making progress on your flexibility? In this class you will learn a series of exercises that isolate and target tight muscles.  You will learn techniques and ways to push your range of motion safely with good alignment and attention to making nice lines. Using a mixture of active and passive flexibility, strengthening while we stretch we will get a good workout at the same time as fine tuning our command over our movements.
    In this class we will learn techniques for strengthening your backbend and splits as well as ways to understand how to optimize your flexibility in all parts of your spine and hips.  Most people bend naturally in their lower back and neck but are weaker in these spots.  Many people have a harder time with the upper back, shoulders, hips. We will examine ways to access these muscles by isolating these parts and stretching/ strengthening them one at a time.  We will use proper warm up and cool down techniques to keep your joints healthy for bending. Our goal will be to create interesting shapes and movements with our bodies, pushing the limits of where we have been able to go before. 
    (There are no pre-requisites for this class, your instructor will cater the training to meet the needs of the class.)
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  • Intermediate Silks Choreography Workshop with Tanya Burka
    Date: Sunday June 18th, 2023
    Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm 
    Cost: $65.00 + GST
    Registration Deadline:  Sunday June 11th at 11:59pm
     
    Prerequisites: 
    •Confident and reliable cross back straddle, single foot lock, and hip key
    •Capable of doing a pullover onto hammock, knot or bar apparatus without tagging feet to complete the movement
     
    Description: 
    Are you always inspired by watching performer's acts - but a bit lost on how to begin constructing one yourself? Yearning to explore and enhance your musicality in the air? 
    Work with Tanya on learning sections of silks choreography designed for an intermediate skill level, set to the dramatic song "Dernière Danse" by Indila. 
     
    More about Tanya Burka
    Tanya Burka is a veteran of the contemporary circus industry. With a unique background - she earned her BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a diploma of studies from Montreal’s renowned National Circus School - she is highly renowned not only as a performer, but also as a coach, artistic counselor and manager for projects both big and small. Tanya graduated from the National Circus School in 2006, and has been performing across North America, Asia and Europe ever since with aerial silks and hoop as her primary disciplines.
    Highlights of her professional career include performing in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC, two years touring as a guest artist with the Cirque du Soleil show “Quidam” performing the iconic ‘Aerial Contortion in Silks’ act with her own original choreography, show creation with Cirque Eloize, and most recently touring with Cirque du Soleil’s “TORUK: The First Flight” as principal character ‘Tsyal’ touring across Australia, Asia and Europe from 2017-2019.
    Alongside her thriving performance career, Tanya has always worked as a coach and coordinator for projects, teaching workshops and serving in panels for aerial schools and festivals worldwide from Dubai to Australia.
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  • Physical Theatre Intensive
    Date: June 19th-23rd, 2023
    Time: 10 am-4 pm 
    Cost:  $375+GST
    Instructor: Dean
     
    Hours of Instruction: 30

    Description:  This intensive workshop for adults will explore various physical theatre techniques. Each class will begin with physical warmups and interactive team-building games. Through corporeal mime exploration, movement, and improvisation exercises, we will explore the Masked Body as a performance tool, physical characterization using neutral masks, full, and half face character masks. We will develop physical character through movement including slapstick, and clown. This year we are also adding a day of puppet play which will include object animation and manipulation, shadow puppets, hand and rod Muppet style puppets, various forms of marionettes, and we will practice puppet techniques for television and how to work with a monitor. The classes will be physical so dress accordingly. This course is ideal for students, performers, or anyone interested in exploring physical performative acting techniques. Perfect for the ambitious, the curious, and the fearless.
     
    Registration Deadline EXTENDED: June 15th, 2022
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  • Stretch and Strength - All levels
    Date: Tuesdays - July 10th - August 8th
    Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    Cost:     $150+GST 
    Registration Deadline: July 3rd at 11:59pm

    Hours of Instruction: 6
    Level: All levels
    Description: This conditioning class will give you a boost of strength and flexibility so you can progress more easily in your other aerial or circus class. It is also a great way to start your circus journey, or simply feel better in your body. Come work your active flex, stabilization muscles and functional movements with us! 
     
    Registration Deadline: July 3rd at 11:59pm
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  • Aerial Rope Fundamentals - Workshop
    Cost: $65.00 + GST
    Date: Saturday July 22nd, 2023
    Time: 11:00am to 1:00pm
     
    Description:
    If you are new to the corde lisse (aerial rope), this is a perfect opportunity to get to know this apparatus. In this 2h workshop, you will learn to execute foundational aerial skills on rope (can be transferred to the silks too). It will allow you to deepen your spatial awareness in the air, keeping a strong emphasis on physical conditioning.
     
    Prerequisites:
    Comfortable with inversions (Straight or Bent arms)
    For age 13+ participants
     
    Guest Instructor: Scotty Dont
    Initially starting their career in visual arts at a young age, Scotty Dont later discovered dance and performance arts in Montreal. Developing a contemporary and urban foundation in movement, they then pursued higher training through the professional program at the "Ecole De Cirque de Québec." Since, Scotty has produced several shows, and continues to perform and coach internationally in dance and circus.
    Deadline: July 15th at 11:59pm
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  • Capstans (S-lock) on aerial rope or silks Workshop
    Cost: $65.00 + GST
    Date: Saturday July 22nd, 2023
    Time: 11am to 1:00pm
     
    Description:
    A in depth and playful workshop focusing on the classic aerial technique known by many names like "s-locks", "windmill", or "helicopter,". This workshop will help participants polish up this skill. While exploring and developing creative entries and exits. 
    [A "Capstan" is a knot that allows an object to rotate while moving up or down a vertical axis.]
    Prerequisites:
    Comfortable with 5 consecutive inversions (Straight or Bent arms)
    For age 13+ participants
     
    Guest Instructor: Scotty Dont
    Initially starting their career in visual arts at a young age, Scotty Dont later discovered dance and performance arts in Montreal. Developing a contemporary and urban foundation in movement, they then pursued higher training through the professional program at the "Ecole De Cirque de Québec." Since, Scotty has produced several shows, and continues to perform and coach internationally in dance and circus.
    Deadline: July 15th at 11:59pm
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