2022-2023 Multiregional Classes – Laurentians

Advance registration required

Alexandre Morin
October 24 to 28, 2022, 9:30 to 11:30 am

 © Jonathan Goulet

Alexandre Morin offers a series of structured kinesthetic and meditative explorations to develop freedom, efficiency and integration in movement, while awakening our senses, imaginations, and curiosities.

Special attention is paid to improving the strength and functional mobility of the shoulder girdle as well as spinal mobility through a journey of undulations, spirals, curves, and extensions. Participants are invited to integrate fluid and efficient pathways, moving through the floor, upright, on all fours and falling.

Class structure : warm-up and sensory awakening; centre, floor and standing combinations; travelling coordinations; dynamic choreographic sequences that integrate class principles.

About Alexandre

Choreographer, dancer, visual artist, and contemporary dance teacher, Alexandre Morin graduated from the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (EDCM). In 2011, he won the Hnatyshyn Foundation Developing Artist Grant.

In 2016, he was an Atlas participant at ImpulsTanz in Vienna. He also danced in a Jimmy Robert installation at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

As a performer, he has namely worked with Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Sylvain Émard Danse, and Système D/Dominique Porte. He teaches at the EDCM and at the École supérieure de ballet du Québec.

Arielle Warnke St-Pierre
November 28 to December 2, 2022, 9:30 to 11:30 am

 © Emmanuel Buriel

Arielle Warnke St-Pierre’s class is primarily inspired by the Fighting Monkey practice. She offers a space to explore the possibilities of your moving self. Playfulness fosters intuitive, spontaneous, functional, and creative movement. It allows us to encounter and develop the potential of your elastic body.

As a fertile ground to nourish your presence, your relationship to yourself and the other, explorations will have a major positive impact on your physical awareness, as well as your individual and our collective well-being.

About Arielle

Arielle Warnke St-Pierre has been exploring movement for 20 years. Her path has been heavily influenced by her interest in practices and explorations that support autonomy in growth, transformation, and nurturing a relationship to what isn’t visible. Over time, she has sought to develop spaces to share movement that combines tools and practices that have been important to her. Here, she encourages the development and expression of each person’s inherent and unique movement potential.

Véronique Giasson
January 9 to 13, 2023, 9:30 to 11:30

 © Sasha Onyshchenko (Kravetz Photographics)

Véronique Giasson’s contemporary dance technique class is inspired by classical dance and Pilates principles and aims to work on different movement qualities. Through dynamic, precise exercises presenting musical and coordination challenges, you will be compelled to optimize physical possibilities to develop your virtuosity.

Throughout the class, you will be exploring notions of modulating energy and muscular work, mobilizing joints, oppositions, and movement amplitude within the body and in space.

About Véronique

Since 2008, Véronique Giasson has worked as a dancer with renowned companies that tour internationally, namely Cas Public, les Ballets Jazz Montréal and Cirque du Soleil. For over 10 years, she has been teaching dance everywhere in Québec and abroad, in the context of regular classes, master classes, workshops, festivals, and intensives. She has taught for dancers at Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Ballet Ouest, and Ezdanza. Since 2019, she regularly teaches ballet for Danse à la Carte and since 2021, she is on faculty at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (EDCM).

Peter Jasko
February 20 to 24, 2023, 9:30 to 11:30

 © Peggy Jarrell Kaplan

Peter Jasko has been teaching Flying Low for 25 years. This form primarily addresses the dancer’s relationship to the floor, using only spirals and curves. Short sequences facilitate learning how to fall and recover. Using all available speeds, directions and energy levels, the class passes through exhaustion, fascination, and amazement.

About Peter

After graduating from the J. L. Bella Conservatory of Dance in Banska Bystrica and the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava, both in Slovakia, Peter Jasko went to P.A.R.T.S., directed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, in Brussels, in 2002. He then danced for several international companies and artists, and cofounded the SlovaKs Dance Collective. Peter has taught in 46 countries over the past 15 years.

Advance Registration Required

1. Fill out our registration form.
2. Fill out your Services Québec participant form. This form will remain valid for all RQD multiregional classes in the current season ending March 10, 2023.
3. Pay on site for the classes you have selected.

> Check your eligibility for the subsidized rate

The Regroupement québécois de la danse’s multiregional classes in Laurentians are offered in collaboration with Danse Laurentides. They are made possible thanks to financial support from the government of Quebec and Compétence Culture, the Sectoral Workforce Committee responsible for Culture.