“Thank you for such an incredible time! Thanks to everyone else for their openness, curiosity and support. That’s gonna be one for the books.📚💗”
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↓SUMMER INTENSIVE 2024↓
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Welcome, dance artists.
Join us for our 2024 Summer Intensive. For 5 days, you’ll be immersed in an engaged, inspiring and focused work environment. You’ll meet a new morning class facilitator each day, and spend the afternoons in a creation process with Director Kylie Thompson, culminating in a performance open to the public on Friday at 4pm. This performance will be professionally filmed twice, with footage available for participants’ use.
This workshop is geared towards emerging and current professional dancers as well as current dance students. It is a safe and welcoming space for all.
Not sure if this workshop is a fit for you? Send us an email with any questions or concerns. A reminder that all new participants must fill out the application form. See above.
5 days of intensive contemporary dance theatre training so that you’ll head into the summer feeling inspired with new tools and thought processes, and new connections in our industry. We will train with a focus on floorwork, partnering, composition, creative writing, group tasks and other tools for the current contemporary dance theatre industry. Keep scrolling for workshop descriptions from our fabulous guest faculty.
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The intensive will take place inside the beautiful main space at 918 Bathurst Centre.
918 Bathurst St.
Toronto, ON
TTC: 5 minute walk from Bathurst Station
Parking: paid parking directly in front of building (between 10am-4pm), free parking on side streets in the area (check signage!)
Amenities: Cafés and food in the area.
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Full Regular price: $399+HST
Current students price: $349 +HST
Morning workshops package
M - F, 9:15-11:15am daily
Morning workshops only regular price: $119 +HST
Morning workshops only student price: $99 +HST
Registration is over half full. Reserve your spot now!
Registration is now conducted through this website, and remains open until full. There are only 25 spots available for the full creation intensive. Payment forms accepted are credit card or paypal. Kylie Thompson Creative is a registered business and HST will be applied at checkout. Payment must be received in order to reserve your spot. Once payment is received it is non-refundable, but can be transferred (must be arranged by the student). Thank you for understanding that these events take alot of planning, preparation and financial investment. In unique and extenuating circumstances the refund policy may be reconsidered.
Keep your receipt! Tuition is eligible for partial reimbursement through the CADA-East Training Subsidy Program.
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9:00am: doors open
9:15-11:15am: Morning session with guest faculty
11:15-12:00pm: lunch break
12:00pm-2:30pm creation session 1 with Kylie
2:30-3:00pm break
3:00-5:00pm creation session 2 with Kylie
*schedule is subject to change.
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What if I sign up but then book a job or something else comes up? Can I get a refund?
We cannot offer refunds due to the fact that renting of space and booking guest instructors is costly and we must secure a committment from participants to ensure the feasibility of these workshops. You may, however, transfer your reservation to someone else, but this is your responsibility. We will be accepting registration up until the start of the intensive, as long as space permits, but cannot guarantee space will be available.
What happens if I miss part of the creation period? Can I get a partial refund?
For reasons mentioned above, no partial refunds are available. We would like for students to treat the creation period like work; and request that everyone make an effort to attend in full. However, we know life happens and if you are unable to make a certain portion of the intensive, just let us know.
Can I sign up for workshops with individual faculty members?
We do offer a package for the full week of morning workshops. We prioritize registration for full participation. Check our instagram the week leading up to the event, as we sometimes advertise drop-ins if space allows.
What if a faculty member is unable to attend? Can I get a refund?
The nature of our industry is that work may come up last minute and we respect our faculty’s right to accept other work. We cannot give refunds in this scenario. We promise we will do our utmost to ensure a wonderful replacement faculty is found.
FACULTY
Keith Morino - Gaga & repertoire
Gaga / dancers
Gaga is the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin throughout many years, parallel to his work as a world-renowned choreographer. Gaga classes are predicated on a deep activation of the body and physical sensations. We provide a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and the imagination. Participants awaken numb areas, increase their awareness of habits, and improve their efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks, and they are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort. The research of Gaga is in a continual process of evolution, and the classes vary and develop accordingly.
After the Gaga session, students will engage in learning some of Keith’s own movement repertoire.
read more about Keith.
Emily Spearing - Partnering
This workshop will focus on contemporary partnering. Playing with counterbalance, momentum, sharing and shifting weight to generate movement material between more than one body. The workshop will involve improvised work alongside learning drills and set material.
read more about Emily.
Darryl Tracy - Contemporary technique
Darryl Tracy teaches a hybrid of Classical Modern and Contemporary Dance in the form of a center class. His class is a physical and sensorial adventure taking the participants from a more internal landscape to external performative communication. The class explores physical task-based relationships with gravity, with space and with music. Darryl aims to explore musicality, temporality, and challenge habits and tendencies. Darryl facilitates the class to give participants the permission to explore within one's comfort level. Participants will have set exercises and also facilitated improvisational scores. The class progresses from floor work to robust travelling phrases exploring agility, coordination, articulation, expressivity and sensory awareness through classical modern and ballet to more contemporary aesthetics. Discovery and fun at the heart of the class.
read more about Darryl.
Tavia Christina, Unfolding
Unfolding is a contemporary improvisation class. This practice is informed by people, philosophies and techniques such as: Peter Jasko, Heidi Strauss, and Hermetics. This is a class that breeds creation rather than expands on technique. It is in a constant state of motion, or what I like to call “unfolding”, where we use elements of the outside to help unfold from within. Through physical prompts such as: spiraling, polarity, reactions, rhythm, mimicking and repetition. Participants are guided to explore their own creative practices, movement qualities and inner monologue to help propel them into a higher state of physical and emotional way of moving. Leading us outside of our body and into the collective consciousness, inviting us to speak with the land and spirits to help inform us of our outside information and constantly unfold from within. There are no set lessons, only the ones you choose to find for yourself.
Photo by Camille Rojas
read more about Tavia.
Rania El Mugammar - Contemporary arts institutions: Anti-oppressive practice & the cultural order
This interactive workshop provides anti-oppressive insights, organizational models, and strategies to facilitate inclusion and justice in Canada’s art and cultural landscape. We will investigate historical contexts and personal narratives to better understand how art becomes a site of cultural imperialism, cultural supremacy, and cultural appropriation. Case studies and applications will be examined to address inequity in funding, curation, adjudication and arts training. Participants will reflect on process, policy and practice as strategies to divest from art as power building and actualize art as power sharing.
read more about Rania
Kylie Thompson - Creation
Process Choreographer
Kylie Thompson (she/her) is a performer, creator, educator and photographer residing in Toronto, Ontario. Her credits including the Barenaked Ladies, the Garage, Gadfly Dance Company, TIFF, Hit and Run Productions, Dance: Made in Canada Festival, DanceWorks, Toronto Fringe, Vancouver Fringe, Orlando Fringe and more. She considers herself an ally to the BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ communities and is committed to ongoing education, conversation and action towards equality and de-colonization of Western Dance practices. She has been active in the Toronto Dance scene since 2012. Find her on instagram: @kyliethompsoncreative.
Kylie has been producing and leading professional level workshops and intensives in Toronto since 2020. Originally called “Exude”, her programs were designed to offer emerging dancers a place to come together with more established ones to exchange, meet, train, and further their practice. She is passionate event planner and loves to see what happens when new groups of individuals come together for these prolonged ‘moments’ in time.
Currently, Kylie is passionate about improvisation, floorwork, partnering, and what she calls “group movement systems”. Her aim is to help nourish a generous collaborator who can go on to become not only a valuable performer but also an enthusiastic contributor to any creative process they are in.
Read more about Kylie’s past works here
Photo by Kendra Epik.
Footage from the 2023 creation intensive. Videography by Kylie Thompson and Adriana Chavez. Guest workshops from Rodney Diverlus, Jaz Fairy J, Amara Barner, Keith Morino and Emily Spearing.
