Small Group Classes Spring/Summer 2023
Alexander Technique helps to free patterns of tension and begin to access your underlying support. Train your kinesthetic coordination and experience more effortless and efficient movement.
In your daily activities (computer work, housework, gardening, exercise) and/or performance (music, dance, acting, singing):
Work better
Perform better
Free Patterns of Tension
Access Underlying Support
Improve Coordination
Enhance Efficiency
Each class may include ‘hands-on-work’ with the teacher, movement and vocal explorations, developmental movement exercises, group discussions/observations and individual activities.
Dates: Fridays 12-1:30pm starting May 12th
Cost: $30/class or $80/4 classes
(Max. 6 students)
Location:
IGAC Studio 103, Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, Toronto, ON, M6J-2W5
Alexander Technique helps to free patterns of tension and begin to access your underlying support. Train your kinesthetic coordination and experience more effortless and efficient movement.
In your daily activities (computer work, housework, gardening, exercise) and/or performance (music, dance, acting, singing):
Work better
Perform better
Free Patterns of Tension
Access Underlying Support
Improve Coordination
Enhance Efficiency
Each class may include ‘hands-on-work’ with the teacher, movement and vocal explorations, developmental movement exercises, group discussions/observations and individual activities.
Dates: Fridays 12-1:30pm starting May 12th
Cost: $30/class or $80/4 classes
(Max. 6 students)
Location:
IGAC Studio 103, Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, Toronto, ON, M6J-2W5
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Collaborative embodied processes inform my teaching philosophy. Using an inquiry-based learning model, I pose questions, problems and scenarios to facilitate a student-centred learning environment. I teach professional and pre-professional dancers and actors and for the wider community. I have been a teacher since 2001 and received Bachelor Degrees in Arts and in Education, a Certified Alexander Technique Teacher, and an MFA in Dance Choreography. I am contract faculty in the Dance department at York University and Acting and Digital Media department at George Brown College. The main courses I teach are Conditioning, Functional Movement, Somatics (Alexander Technique), Solo, Contact, and Ensemble Improvisation/Composition. The classes/workshops range from one hour introductory classes for individuals to full-year courses for groups. |
Current University/College Courses
Dance Department, York University - Somatics (Alexander Technique), Conditioning, Dance Improvisation
Media and Acting, George Brown College - Movement for Actors, Contact Improvisation
Dance Department, York University - Somatics (Alexander Technique), Conditioning, Dance Improvisation
Media and Acting, George Brown College - Movement for Actors, Contact Improvisation
Teaching Experience
- Part-time Faculty, George Brown College, Media and Theatre School (Movement, Functional Anatomy, Butoh, Somatics, Improvisation, Contact Improvisation), Toronto
- Contract Faculty (Conditioning, Somatics and Improvisation, Dance studies in film/video), York University, Toronto
- Acting Division Faculty Teacher at Randolph Performing Arts - College Program, Toronto
- Residencies for Toronto CI jams, C.I.N.N. (Tokyo), Leviathan Studio (B.C.), Collective Gulp Dance Projects (Ottawa), Artists’ Play Dance Company, Simcoe Dance, Peterborough, Calgary, and Buffalo jams.