Summer School

Photo: Juan David Padilla | Dancer: Nathan Buldakova

SCHEDULE

FROM AUGUST 5 TO 15, 2025

Dance professionals are invited to take advantage of the technique classes and interpretation workshops offered as part of the Summer School with 3rd-year students.

Laboratory Andrea Peña & Artists | Andrea Peña

The choreographic workshop proposes a vigorous and intimate process that challenges participating collaborators conceptually, physically, and personally in an attempt to continuously search for our true essence as artists and individuals. The process invites a collective questioning of political and philosophical ideals as the starting points for the creative process.

The process challenges each artist towards an embodiment and deconstruction of unusual states — as situations that are both mental and physical. What is described as states — we question how they are internalized and externalized in coexistence with each other, with the aim to arrive at a physical language that is rhythmical, transparent, dynamic, virtuosic and vulnerable.

Peña's works invite a collective questioning of political and philosophical ideals as the starting points for the creative process. Choreographically AP&A’s work searches for presence rather than performance, through a juxtaposition of complex ideas investigated in the physical potentials of the body as unusual states. The workshop will explore various improvisation exercises to explore your own physical and conceptual potentials.

Interpretation - Repertoire Kidd Pivot/Crystal Pite | Anne Plamondon

RATES

ADMISSIBILITY

To access classes open to professionals, you must meet one of the following conditions and send your documents by email:

1. Young graduates
Have graduated from a recognized professional dance or circus school within the last 12 months.
In addition to EDCM, recognized schools include École supérieure de ballet du Québec, École de danse de Québec, Concordia University, Université du Québec à Montréal, The Dance Art Institute (formerly the School of Toronto Dance Theater), The School of Dance, Ryerson University, Arts Umbrella, Canada's National Ballet School, Juilliard, etc.
Supporting document(s) to be provided: copy of diploma, a letter from the institution confirming completion of the program, or a document attesting to your full-time enrolment in the program.

2. Dance professionals
To take part in open classes, you must meet one of the following criteria:

- Be a professional (active) individual member of the Regroupement québécois de la danse as a performer;
Supporting document: link to your RQD member web page.

- Must have been a Danse à la carte member for the current or previous season;
Supporting document: CV or DAC membership card.

- Work as a professional dancer for a recognized dance or circus company
Supporting document(s): CV, link to your artist page on the company's website, signed contract or certificate from your employer.