Workshops & more
SEDA Dance is excited to offer a variety of workshops throughout the year, featuring some of Victoria’s best instructors. Workshops are a separate registration. Please join our newsletter to be the first to hear about upcoming workshops.
Improvisation Dance Workshop with Stacey Horton
Mondays 12:30-1:30pm @ Seda
All Levels welcome, no experience required.
Join us for a class that welcomes dancers of all levels to enhance their improvisational skills! We’ll explore the fundamentals of sensitivity, deep listening, and body awareness. Learning to listen to your body and allow movement impulse to create dance exploration. The session includes a guided individual warm-up, movement goals and prompts all guided by a creative and supportive teacher. Dive into dynamic movement exploration and play in a supportive and creative environment.
WORKSHOP SERIES DATES:
FALL: Oct 5 - Nov 9 (6 weeks) - $100 +GST - FY Registered Students 10% discount!
WINTER: TBD
SPRING: TBD
Creative Process Workshop Series with Katie Wertz
Saturdays 4:00-5:30pm @ Seda Oct 3-17 (3 Weeks)
We will focus on choreographic tools to explore and activate a creative idea and/or concept. We will create a container for experimentation and thematic material to emerge using guided improvisation, writing or drawing and repetition. We will weave personal stories into duets, trios or small group micro dances, providing an opportunity to experience a creative process that is witnessed without the pressure of committing to a performance.
Movement phrases created in this workshop may be integrated into a later performance project, offering an opportunity for participants to continue developing the work. Writing and drawing materials will be provided.
SESSIONAL DATES:
FALL: Oct 3 - Oct 17 (3weeks) - $70 +GST
FY Registered Students 10% discount!
Conditioning: Floor Barre
Tuesday 12:30-1:30pm with Kathy Lang @ Seda
All Levels welcome, no experience required.
A low-impact conditioning class designed to build strength, flexibility, alignment, and body awareness using movements inspired by ballet training - all done on the floor. Floor Barre helps improve posture, core stability, turnout, coordination, and overall technique while reducing impact on the joints. Perfect for dancers of all levels looking to refine their movement quality, prevent injury, and develop long, strong muscles in a supportive environment.
This class will be offered as a sessional only, the level will adjust to those who attend, while choreography and focus will change each week. As this class is non-performance, it will remain Drop-in Friendly all year long.
SESSIONAL DATES: * FY registration sessional discounts apply
FALL: Sep 15 - Dec 15 (14 weeks) - $315 +GST - in progress
WINTER: Jan 5 - Mar 16 (11 weeks) - $247.50 +GST
Also available for 3 monthly payments of $82.50 +GST
SPRING: Mar 30 - Jun 8 (11 weeks) - $247.50 +GST
Also available for 3 monthly payments of $82.50 +GST
Mindful Movement Workshop Series with Heather Myers
Wednesdays 9:30-11:00am @ Pirouette
All Levels welcome, no experience required. Drop in Available 1st class of series only
Welcome Heather Myers to the Victoria dance community! Don’t miss this opportunity to work with such warm talent!
This series invites you to delve into your internal landscape, expand personal and creative process, & connect to artful resources for inspired living. Drawing on professional improvisation tools, the expressive arts & an intuitive approach to dance, Mindful Movement offers a space for playful exploration, self-reflection, & holistic wellness.
Engage with a gentle sensory warm-up, specific improv exercises, rhythm-based release, creative tasks, meaning-making prompts, sharing, & discussion. Classes may incorporate writing or drawing activities to inform & articulate our dance-based journey. By focusing the experience of moving, rather than steps, this work calls upon the unique wisdom that dwells in every individual – empowering an embodied knowing, interpretive agility & authentic expression.
SERIES DATES:
FALL: Sep 16 - Oct 28 (7 weeks) - in progress
Nov 4 - Dec 9 (6 weeks) - $135 +GST - FY Registered Students 10% discount!
Jan 6 - Mar 10 (10 weeks) - $225 +GST - *or 3 monthly payments of $75 +GST
Mar 31 - Apr 28 (5 weeks)- $112.50 +GST - coming soon
May 5 - Jun 2 (5 weeks) - $112.50 +GST - coming soon
Dancer Massage Release Workshop with Kathy Lang
COMING SOON
All Levels and All Bodies!
In this workshop Kathy will offer a massage release technique for dancers that she studied with Debra Shantz of Mile Zero Dance. This work is quiet, and based on offering rhythmic soft pressure, allowing the fascia to soften and the body to open to its natural flexibility without tension, while calming the nervous system.
The time will be split into two identical sessions where dancers will work with a partner. Dancers will learn and offer the technique to their partner, then a short break, then swap.
We will begin our focus at the feet, travel up through legs, hips, back, shoulders and neck.
Wear comfortable warm clothing. Some yoga mats available.
Register early and claim your spot. We need there to be an even number of dancers so the list will be monitored closely.
Walk Ins Welcome, space permitting and even number of dancers in the class.