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Contemporary Dance Progressive Workshop
by Isak Enquist
Rhythm Rising
“Open to All: No Experience Needed!”
Ages: 12 -18
Dates: Every Saturday - April 19 to June 21 ( 10 sessions)
Time: 12 PM - 1:30 PM
Fees: $200 (For 10 sessions) - First session free
Location: 209 4st ST W, North Vancouver
Refund: You are eligible for a full refund at any time
before the second session.
Elevate Movement
“Open to All: No Experience Needed!”
Ages: 19 and older
Dates: Every Saturday - April 19 to June 21 ( 10 sessions)
Time: 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Fees: $200 (For 10 sessions) - First session free
Location: 209 4st ST W, North Vancouver
Refund: You are eligible for a full refund at any time
before the second session.
“Limited availability – Register early!”
Inspired from a breadth of techniques ranging from Martial Arts, Breaking, Snowboarding, Contemporary and Horton-inspired movement, this practice is based on finding expansive movements for stage dancing outside the ballet aesthetic.
This class centers on connecting hands and feet through the floor, accessing the horizontal plane, and initiating complex spirals to generate power. We will discuss how to use principles of momentum and counter-direction to safely and efficiently pour weight into the floor: Expanding movements to create strength, increased awareness, and physical confidence.
These progressive classes build technique and choreography for a final showing for friends and family.
ABOUT ISAK ENQUIST:
Isak Enquist is a movement artist, choreographer, teacher, actor, and experimental musician/sound designer. Raised in the Kootenays/Ktunaxa of Canada, he began formal training in Shotokan Karate-Do (currently holding 1st Dan) before pursuing post-secondary dance education at Simon Fraser University and Modus Operandi (Vancouver).
Isak works with Canadian contemporary dance communities, connecting years of technical history and exploring the intersections of martial and expressive movement. He has performed nationally and internationally with Canadian performing companies such as Out Innerspace Dance Theatre, Compagnie Vision Impure, Shay Kuebler Radical System Art, Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien, Amber Funk Barton, Mascall Dance, Generous Mess, Cristina Bucci, Anne Plamondon Productions, and Corporeal Imago. He is on faculty with Vancouver’s Harbour Dance Centre, Lamon Dance Company, and a guest teacher with Training Society of Vancouver, Goh Ballet Academy, and GötesborgOperan Danskompani (Sweden) among many others.
Isak has created new stage works for Dance Café (the response.), BLOOM (Mascall Dance), Dancing On the Edge (DOTE), Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF), Innovate Film Festival, Dance: Made In Canada / Fait Au Canada Festival, Coastal City Ballet, Lamon Dance Company, and most recently Blackout Theatre Society.
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