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Collaboration between the RQD, L’Artère, Sursaut and Danse Laurentides

2024-2025 Fall and Winter Regional Classes

10$ per class

Drop-ins are accepted, but only after you have registred for the session in advance.
Classes are open to professionals only.

Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin

Laurentians

February 3, 10, 17 and 24 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
March 2, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Studio de Danse Laurentides

Sherbrooke

October 15 to 18
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Centre des arts de la scène J.-Besré

Québec

October 21 to 25
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Maison pour la danse de Québec

Class description

Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin’s class is based on principles of Release technique, Limón, and functional anatomy. It combines floor work, spatial exploration, musical sensitivity, and a search for essence. The core is kinesthetic pleasure.

The class first invites you to let yourself be moved by weight and momentum on the floor, slowly, then to work on the precision of pathways and breath, and finally to establish your verticality. It then encourages you to be guided by the flow, that balance between musicality, mastery, and surrender.

The work emphasizes spirals and amplitude. Balance is constantly tested by playing with the loss of visual references. The focus is on proprioception before moving on to complex rhythms, weight transfers, and spatial engagement. The class explores transitioning through all levels, as well as turns and jumps. Physicality is expanded while trying to keep subtle sensations alive.

About Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin has performed the work of numerous choreographers, including Alan Good, Massimo Agostinelli, Sonya Delwaide, Jadson Caldeira, Marjon Van Grunsven, Roberto Campanella, Edgar Zendejas, and Harold Rhéaume. She has also danced for several years with the Compagnie Dave St-Pierre and Le Carré des Lombes. As a répétiteur, she has collaborated with Danièle Desnoyers, Estelle Clareton, Marie Chouinard, and various emerging choreographers.

Currently, Emmanuelle is working with Zoey Gauld on a pedagogical transfer project from Angélique Willkie. She has taught movement-related classes at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, UQAM, and the École Nationale de Théâtre du Canada.

Fabien Piché

Québec

February 24 to 28
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Maison pour la danse de Québec

Laurentians

November 11 to 15
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Studio de Danse Laurentides

Sherbrooke

November 25 to 29
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Centre des arts de la scène J.-Besré

Class description

Fabien Piché’s class focuses on principles of floor work and interconnections within a group to develop a collective awareness of movement, with a positive and contagious energy. Gently referencing principles of Flying Low, among others, participants are encouraged to deploy their bodies in short sequences combining precision, speed, and ease. All within a context that aims for joy and inclusion.

About Fabien

Fabien Piché completed his training at the École de danse de Québec in 2010. Since then, he has worked as a performer and creative collaborator on various projects in dance and theater, and he also explores interdisciplinary performance in polymorphic projects that question intimacy and connection with others.

In the fall of 2022, Fabien Piché trained in Flying Low and Passing Through with David Zambrano at the Tictac Art Centre. He occasionally teaches as a guest instructor at the École de danse de Québec and the École de cirque de Québec. His creative journey is rooted in a playful and sensitive context, while promoting the pursuit of interconnections.

Gabrielle Surprenant-Lacasse

Laurentians

December 16 to 20
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Studio de Danse Laurentides

Québec

January 13 to 17
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Maison pour la danse de Québec

Class description
The class offered by Gabrielle Surprenant-Lacasse in this context is freely inspired by certain foundations of modern techniques and ballet in dialogue with somatic approaches to movement and his artistic journey. Through different choreographed sequences on the ground, in the center and on the move, as well as certain short improvised exercices, the notions of anchoring, suspension, precision, weight and release will be addressed. Throughout the class, the modulation of effort, taking up space and taking risks appear implicity as challenges to work with. The class provides tools to be present in movement, regardless of its form and amplitude. It also aims to take place in a fun climate and in safe conditions, in order to encourage participants to listen to themselves in relation to their respective potential.

About Gabrielle
Ambitious and idealistic, Gabrielle Surprenant-Lacasse has a mandate to create opportunities to evolve as a performer, choreographer and teacher in work contexts that correspond to her values of respect, rigor, fairness and kindness. She has a great interest in teaching contemporary dance, in professional, academic and community settings. She joined the teaching staff in the dance department of Montmorency College in January 2020 and she often takes part in mediation activities related to the artistic projects in which she collaborates. Since 2022, she has taught jointly with Marianne Gignac-Girard the back-to-school classes aimed at professionals, offered by the RQD in partnership with Bouge de là.

Elise Legrand

Elise Legrand © Michelle Boulay

Sherbrooke

February 10 to 14
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Centre des arts de la scène J.-Besré

Class description
Drawing on her background in contemporary and classical dance, circus, yoga and tai chi, as well as her training routines developed over the years, Elise Legrand offers a class that combines different elements to maximize the body’s openness and readiness. Attention is paid to the circulation of energy, the trajectory of impulse and the awakening of the joints in different possible fields and textures of movement. The teacher aims to create a space for performers to connect with their bodies in movement, in a climate of openness, trust and pleasure.

About Elise
Elise Legrand is a Sherbrooke-based dancer and choreographer with over twenty years’ experience in contemporary dance performance and creation. A graduate of the Conservatoire de Danse de Montréal in 2002, she has worked with choreographers and companies such as Sinha Danse, PPS Danse and Sursaut, touring extensively across Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin America. She has taught classes for professionals as well as introductory workshops in contemporary dance for various communities in Quebec and Puerto Rico. She has been creating and disseminating her choreographic work since 2010, with a marked interest in in situ and multidisciplinary creation.

David Rancourt

Sherbrooke

February 24 to 28
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Centre des arts de la scène J.-Besré

Class description

David Rancourt’s class offers a hybrid of dance technique and bodywork. They integrate principles and a quality of presence inspired by Qi Gong (energy work). Participants explore forms drawn from classical, modern and contemporary vocabulary, with simplicity in mind, with the aim of finding ease, agility and integrity in their movements. Time is devoted to connecting with breathing and body weight. The body unfolds in space through various exercises, sequences and improvised structures. The emphasis of the teaching is on the balance between finding freedom while meeting form (external demand). Alternating between subtle and dynamic class segments, the class awakens your body in a sensitive and creative way.

About David
David Rancourt is a Montreal-based dance artist since 1999. Artistic director of PPS Danse, he regularly alternates between the roles of choreographer, rehearsal director, performer and teacher. He is a member of the Fragments Libres school team, where he has been teaching and practicing Qi Gong for some fifteen years. In dance, he teaches workshops focusing on the creative process, interpretation, partnering and technical training. He devotes most of his energy and professional time to the activities of PPS Danse. Otherwise, he strives to be a loving and conscientious citizen, friend, lover and father.

Odile-Amélie Peters

Laurentians

September 30 to October 4
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Studio de Danse Laurentides

Québec

October 7 to 11
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Maison pour la danse de Québec

Class description

Odile-Amélie Peters’ class focuses on exploring bodily possibilities, clarity and fluidity of movement, and letting go. It alternates between personal experience through specific proposals to guide exploratory movement and written exercises. It combines floor work with various levels in space. The goal is to push oneself, enjoy the space, warm up, and have fun!

Very physical, the class promotes a personalized approach to respect each individual’s experience and background. Comfort and curiosity with floor work are strongly encouraged.

About Odile-Amélie

Odile-Amélie Peters grew up in Quebec among competition hip-hop studios (choreography). Her passion led her to continue her studies in contemporary dance at L’École de danse de Québec, where she graduated in 2012.

Since then, she has worked with various companies and choreographers in Quebec, Montreal, and Vancouver, including Le fils d’Adrien danse, Company 605, Radical System Art, Geneviève Duong, Le CRue, and others. She is also a performer with the company Alan Lake Factori(e), with whom she has collaborated on different works since 2013.

As an emerging teacher and choreographer, Odile-Amélie Peters is currently engaged in her own research projects with great curiosity and interest in creation.

The multiregional classes of the Regroupement québécois de la danse, offered in collaboration with Compagnie de danse Sursaut, L’Artère art de la danse et du mouvement, and Danse Laurentides, are made possible thanks to financial support from the Government of Quebec, through the Intervention-Compétences program administered by Compétence Culture.