2025-2026 Fall and Winter Regional Classes

Elise Legrand in Dé-Reconstruire, AVEC Festival, Domaine Howard in Sherbrooke © Dominick Ménard

$10/class

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

About enrollment in regional classes

David Rancourt

Laurentians
September 1, September 8, October 20, November 17, November 24, December 1, December 8
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Laurentians Dance Studio

Class description

David Rancourt‘s class offers a hybrid of dance techniques and bodywork. It incorporates principles and a quality of presence inspired by Qi Gong. You will explore forms derived from simplified classical, modern, and contemporary vocabularies with the aim of finding ease, agility, and integrity in your movements. Time is devoted to connecting your breathing with your body weight. The class then unfolds in space through various exercises, sequences, and improvised structures. The teaching focuses on a balance between respect for form and the pursuit of freedom. Alternating between subtle and more dynamic segments, the class aims to awaken your body in a sensitive and creative way.

About David
David Rancourt is a dance artist who has been based in Montreal since 1999. As artistic director of PPS Danse, he alternates between the roles of choreographer, rehearsal director, performer, and teacher. He is part of the team at the Fragments Libres school, where he has been teaching and practicing Qi Gong for some fifteen years. In dance, he teaches workshops focused on the creative process, performance, partner work, and technical training.

Elise Legrand

Laurentians

September 22, *September 29, November 3, November 10, December 15
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
*Starts at 6:15 PM on September 29
Laurentians Dance Studio

Class description

Drawing on her background in contemporary dance, circus arts, classical dance, yoga, and tai chi, as well as her training routines developed over the years, Elise Legrand‘s class combines different elements to maximize your body’s openness and readiness. The goal is to warm up your body and then engage in physical training through various exercises and movement sequences, both in space and on the floor. Attention is paid to energy flow, the trajectory of momentum, and the activation of joints in different fields and textures of movement.

About Elise

Based in Sherbrooke, dancer and choreographer Elise Legrand has over twenty years of experience in contemporary dance performance and creation. A 2002 graduate of the Conservatoire de Danse de Montréal, she has worked with various choreographers and companies such as Sinha Danse, PPS Danse, and Sursaut, participating in numerous tours across Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. She has taught classes for professionals as well as introductory workshops in contemporary dance to various communities in Quebec and Puerto Rico. She has been creating and presenting her choreographic work since 2010, with a strong interest in site-specific and multidisciplinary creation.

The regional 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 Quebec government through the Intervention-Compétences program of Compétence Culture.