Dancemakers - Classes

Company Class Schedule

Monday to Friday | 10am to 11:30am | class times may vary. Please refer to the teaching schedule for any changes.

Company classes take place when the company is in residence at the Dancemakers Centre for Creation and are taught by company members, the Associate Director and the Artistic Director. Advanced students of dance and dance professionals are welcome to attend on a drop-in basis ($10/class) or to buy 5-class passes ($40.00 each).

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Upcoming Masterclasses

Master class with Peggy Baker - Cancelled
April 26-30 | 10 - 11:30

We regret to inform you that the Peggy Baker master classes scheduled this week have been cancelled.
Peggy regretfully can't make it at all for the week.

Bonnie Kim will be teaching the morning workshops from 10am-11:30am

Alternative Wednesdays

Conditioning with Darryl Tracy
Every Wednesday from March 24-April 14| 10 - 11:30 | $10/class |
Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation

Participants will be lead through a 30-minute introduction to some conditioning elements for contemporary dance that can be infused into any warm-up. Additionally, dancers will be taken through a circuit training program challenging one’s anaerobic endurance, power, strength and active flexibility. A fun class with energy that is designed for a dancer’s body. Running shoes required for Part 2 of the class.

About the Instructor:

Darryl C. Tracy is a local independent dance artist, choreographer, and teacher of contemporary dance. He has studied with many teachers across Canada and in the United States, most notably Heidi Bunting, Patricia Miner, Edie Shaw, and Brian Webb.
Tracy has choreographed over 25 works for performing arts high schools, and for companies in Toronto, Montreal, New Brunswick, and the United States.
He is on the faculty of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, and is a regular teacher at the 509 Collective, Canadian Children's Dance Theatre, and Dance-Teq. He has also taught master classes across Canada, the United States, and Europe.
Tracy also sits on the Board of Directors of CCDT and on the Artists’ Committee of the Artists’ Health Centre. He is also a part-time private physiotherapist for Physio-Logic Neurological Rehabilitation Clinic, and a dancer with Montreal-based Sylvain Émard danse.

Alternative Wednesdays

Awareness and Conditioning with Carolyn Woods
April 21, May 5, and May 26 | 10 - 11:30 | $10/class |
Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation

This class will look at opening up the hips, strengthening the gluts, abdominals, pelvic floor, adductors, and feet in order to find better alignment and more ease while standing.

Please note: Dancers will be learning tools. If one is going to a dance rehearsal right after the class, please allow time for a proper warm-up

About the Instructor:

Carolyn Woods has been teaching Pilates at the Mitrea Pilates Center for six years. Here she was first introduced to the techniques of Guy Voyer DO, an Osteopath from France who worked closely with the Paris Opera Ballet for over ten years. They have discovered that special techniques like Myofascial Stretching, ELDOA, awareness exercises, and precise strengthening techniques are unlike any other techniques currently know. They also blend beautifully with the Pilates method and facilitate the correct bony alignment of the dancer.