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Contemporary DanceSummer IntensiveTwo Week Courses
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Cost Full Programme 1/2 Days *HST Included |
Year 1 (Intermediate) 9:30 - 11:00 11:15 - 12:15 12:15 - 1:15 |
Years 2- 3 (Advanced) 9:30 - 11:30 11:30 - 12:30 12:30 - 4:30 |
Faculty
Sylvie Desrosiers, Director of Contemporary Dance
Sylvie Desrosiers trained and started her career as a choreographer and a teacher under Peter Boneham's direction at Le Groupe Dance Lab. She eventually directed Le Groupe's dance school from 1991 to 1993 and regularly taught company classes. In the fall of 1994 Sylvie joined The School of Dance to establish the Contemporary Dance Programme. She is the director of the Programme, teaches modern dance technique, composition, and is a resident choreographer. She has been awarded grants from Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts for the creation and production of her professional dance works, many of which have been presented nationally
Brian Webb
Brian Webb graduated with distinction from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre. He then moved to New York City, working with Eric Hawkins who had an influence on his early dance making. During the 1970's, Brian premiered many of his first dances with the Carol Conway Company in New York. Returning to Edmonton in 1979, he formed the Brian Webb Dance Company with his "company in residence" at Grant MacEwan College. In 1986, Brian completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Choreography at the California Institute of the Arts. He returned to Edmonton and began to create a solo dance theatre repertoire that presents a series of "self portraits" in collaboration with composers, writers, and visual artists. He has received three Interdisciplinary Project Grants from the Canada Council. In 1995, Brian was awarded the Syncrude Award for Innovation in Artistic Direction, and in 1998 won the Telus Award for Arts of the Future (for Project Desire: the mountains and the plains). He was selected as an interdisciplinary artist in the 2000 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art. Brian is also the Artistic Producer of the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa. He has been inducted into the Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame (June 2002) and received the Queens Jubilee Medal (September 2002).
Angela Jackson
Angela's whole life is about movement and the study of movement. As a graduate in Contemporary Dance from Les ateliers de danse moderne de Montréal and Concordia University, Pilates and yoga have always been a part of her dance training. Angela teaches ballet and modern dance to adults and offers Pilates mat classes and private, semi-private and rehabilitation training on Pilates appartus. Before becoming a mother, Angela performed with Screaming Kettle Dance Productions in Montréal and Toronto. She has done workshops with O Vertigo Danse in Montréal and has worked with several choreographers including Jean- Pierre Perreault and Ginette Laurin. She was certified in Classic Style Pilates in 1999 at the Pilates Centre of Ottawa. She has furthered her Pilates education by training with, amongst others, Master Teacher Ron Fletcher and Dianne Miller, and at Body Harmonics and The Studio Pilates in Toronto. She is a member of the Pilates Method Alliance. Angela is also a high school supply teacher and adores working and creating with teens. Angela has recently become a certified Level 1GYROKINESIS® teacher, where she has found the perfect marriage between her Pilates, dance and yoga training.