contemporary dance

The heartbeat in our body creates our own tempo and at the same time our breath creates rhythmic values and dynamics on top of that tempo.

The class focuses on the musicality and teaches us the ways to be aware on how to develop our body’s rhythm and dynamics, concerning it as an instrument by using improvisational tools inspired from the theory of music.

Ages: All ages
Levels: All, however a previous experience in movement/dance is required

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Lamprini Gkolia

Lamprini Gkolia is a dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer. She graduated from the State School of Dance in Greece with honours. Her artistic work combines elements from visual arts, theatre, and music. As a performer, she has collaborated with several dance companies, such as the Hellenic Dance Company, Krama Dance Company, Lidia Lithos DanceTheatre, Aerites Dance Company, Asomates Dynameis Dance Company, Siamese-Cie, and Dancetheater OKTANA. She has also been involved in independent dance and theatre projects in Greece and abroad. One of her most notable collaborations was with the Flying Low technique founder, David Zambrano. As a dance teacher, she has been teaching ballet, contemporary and Graham in dance companies, professional dance schools and studios around the world. Her recent artistic research and studies in music (2016-2020) resulted in the development of her own teaching method: Body Instrument. As a choreographer, she has created several works that have been performed in Greece and abroad, such as “Camouflage”, which was selected at the Deltebre Danza Festival as well as at various dance festivals in Greece. Other notable works are “The Medusa Complex” and “A Minute of Silence”. Her latest creation is “Orlando”.

FLUIDIFY is a practice that challenges the body, mind and perhaps the soul. Working on extreme fluidity technique, floorwork, rhythm patterns and improvisation tools, playing with physical, emotional and imaginary states. Each joints are addressed by dissociating them, leading to a clearer proprioception. The practice is the result of years of experimenting and training different dance styles such as krump, bboying, house dance, hip-hop, folkloric dances, modern and contemporary techniques. We facilitate an environment prone to research, discoveries, playfulness, openness, softness, carefulness and trust of the self and of the others.
The purpose is to find new patterns, creativity and expressivity, to develop and nourish the flow state where the participant is simply and only in the present moment. Fluidifying and connecting the spine, center and limbs, jumping from an idea, a movement, a concept to another without interruption, without judgement, getting stronger and being anti-fragile.

Ages: All ages
Levels: intermediate/advanced/professionals

Photo credit: Valerie Dubuc, Kenji Atse

Charles Brecard

Born and raised in New Caledonia from the Vietnamese diaspora, Charles Brecard arrived in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal in 2013 before graduating from Ecole de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal (EDCM). As a performer he collaborated with Parts+Labour_Danse, Animals of Distinction, Lilith&Cie, Andrea Pena, 14lieux, Skeels Danse while dancing in his own work. His limitless curiosity drives him to develop his practice named « FLUIDIFY », influenced by his background in street, folk or contemporary dances, and by his profession as a massage therapist. It allows him to share workshops for professional in various schools and institutions such as EDCM, Sinedomo, Big Bang program, the CND Paris, Tjibaou Cultural Center but also for amateurs and as a cultural coordinator. He regularly organizes practices amongst Montreal dance community to exchange, meet, and train. He develops a choreographic world imbued with strong physicality and theatrical poetry, worked on multiple commissioned and independent projects, presenting them in Canada and Europe. Especially his solo « SOLILOQUY » that was awarded with the Best Interpretation Prize by Festival Quartiers Danses lastly.

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