COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About the Class
Drawing on both classical ballet and modern dance, this class explores total body movement. Classes begin with barre work, followed by centre, and ends with traveling work including jumps and across the floor sequences. It is a highly physical dance class.

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About this Class

These classes will explore danced movement situations to expand movement variability, mobility, strength, dynamic range and bodily awareness, while remaining attuned to the Fighting Monkey principles of training for adaptability and longevity.

The classes will include FM coordinations and task-based choreography, tools/partnered training and improvisation led in the Fighting Monkey Practice style. Importantly: this is not a “fight” practice, rather we fight our monkey minds.

In FM coordinations and task-based choreography, we work with movement sequences delivered via a full-complexity approach in order to gain insight into our learning strategies and help uncover our movement blindspots. The coordinations also train dynamic range and elastic capacity for power and mobility. With the FM tools/partnered training, we work with instinctual/reactive movement and hone shared body empathy and communication skills necessary for partnered dancing. In the improvisation work, we mine for variability: using the specificity of a task to tune bodily self-awareness and expand movement capacity.

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Fighting Monkey is a longevity practice that values variability, adaptability and finding resilience by understanding our inherent relative fragility. Through curated “play under pressure” situations, we investigate strategies of observation, communication and learning and in this expand our movement capacity.

For more information about the Fighting Monkey Practice and its founders, please visit: www.fightingmonkey.net

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About this Class
GYROKINESIS® is a practice to nourish, inspire, awaken, re-connect and re-align ourselves to a joyful, sensuous, undulating, flowing, empowering and grateful human experience. Images of nature and cosmos will support our journey as expansive, breathing, intentional, expressive and fun-loving, dancing beings. By moving in circling, spiraling and wave like pathways we will gently and rhythmically soften, support and open our bodies, stimulating the internal organs, improving muscle flexibility and articulation of joints and bones, reinforcing the neuromuscular system, oxygenating the blood, and cultivating wellbeing through the harmonization of body systems, sensations and energy channels. These sessions begin seated and evolve to some floor work and standing explorations. If you have a yoga mat please bring one along. “Andrea’s GYROKINESIS® classes are invigorating and inspiring. Her demonstrating is exquisite, her explanations clear and concise, her imagery fresh and cogent, and her coaching absolutely to the point. She attends to the exacting details of form in relation to movement pathways while sustaining an undercurrent of energetic flow.” ~ Peggy Baker, dance artist

 BIO
Andrea Nann (she/her/they) is a contemporary dance artist, founding artist of Dreamwalker Dance Company, certified GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® Trainer, as well as co-creator of Conscious Bodies Methodology, an embodied community practice. A graduate of York University’s Fine Arts program, she has contributed to over 70 dance and theatre works across Turtle Island. Recognized for choreography, performance, and community action, Andrea’s practice celebrates possibility, plurality, and belonging, guided by a belief that embodied practice can transform how we experience ourselves and one another, deepening awareness of both our distinctiveness and shared humanity, and opening pathways toward wonderment, collective care and possibility.

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About the Class
Drawing on both classical ballet and modern dance, this class explores total body movement. Classes begin with barre work, followed by centre, and ends with traveling work including jumps and across the floor sequences. It is a highly physical dance class.

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

COVID-19 Protocols: TDT strongly encourages wearing a mask while at Winchester Street Theatre, but it is not required. Please do not attend in-person classes if you have a fever or are experiencing any other symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the class, or have been in close contact with someone suspected or confirmed of having COVID-19.

About the Class
Cuban Modern and Contemporary Dance is characterized by the fusion with the Graham, Limon and Cunningham techniques, Ballet and traditional Cuban dance forms, including Afro Cuban rhythms with global contemporary techniques. Emerging in the 20th century, founded by Ramiro Guerra, it reflects a vibrant cultural heritage, emphasizing improvisation and individual expression. This dance is not only a performance art, but also a powerful medium for social and political expression, showcasing themes of identity, culture and history. Dancers will navigate complex combinations that weave together polyrhythms and off-axis movement, demanding both mental focus and physical agility and strength.