2025-2026 Regional Classes

$10/class

Drop-in accepted after registering for the 2025-2026 season.
Classes are open to professionals only.

Geneviève Boulet

Québec
February 16 to 20
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Maison pour la danse de Québec

Classe Description
Geneviève Boulet’s class blends various somatic and technical approaches to awaken the senses and cultivate the pleasure of movement. It invites participants to ground, align and reconnect with themselves. The session begins with a warm-up combining Pilates, yoga and mobility exercises to activate deep postural muscles and support safe physical engagement. Gradually, the class progresses toward technical exercises exploring spatial awareness, risk-taking and musicality. Throughout, participants move between internal sensations and the surrounding space, refining their proprioception.

About Geneviève

Geneviève Boulet has been active in Montréal’s dance community for over 20 years as a performer, choreographer, rehearsal director and teacher. A graduate of L’École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal, she continually expands her artistic practice through physical, energetic and esoteric approaches. She has collaborated with O Vertigo, Roger Sinha, Dany Desjardins, Fleuve | Espace Danse and Roy Assaf. Since 2009, she has been a member of Destins Croisés. She has worked closely with Margie Gillis since 2018 as a performer and artistic advisor, and is co-founder, co-choreographer and performer with the collective La Tresse.

Jamie Wright

Laurentians
March 16, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
March 17, 10:00 a.m. à 12:00 p.m.
April 27, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
April 28, 10:00 a.m. à 12:00 p.m.
Studio de Danse Laurentides

Classe Description
Pleasure, relevance, precision, participation and… imperfection. These are some of the territories explored in Jamie Wright’s class, which approaches the body through a biomechanical lens aimed at deepening awareness of execution. Emphasis is placed on tactile connection to the floor, strengthening deep support, clarifying the relationship between the central axis and space, and balancing engagement, efficiency and effort. Accompanied by live music, the class unfolds as a space for research and creation, focusing on coordination, precision, and the dynamic interplay between slowness and speed.

About Jamie

Originally from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Jamie Wright earned her BFA from York University in Toronto in 1997. She moved to Montréal in 1999, quickly establishing herself as a committed and charismatic artist. She danced with Flak/José Navas (2002–2008) and has collaborated with choreographers including Ginette Laurin, Estelle Clareton, Dana Gingras and Frédérick Gravel. Since 2003, she has taught professional dancers in Montréal and across Québec, and has been on faculty at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal since 2006.

Joannie Douville

Laurentians
March 23, 24, May 4 and 5
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Studio de Danse Laurentides

Classe Description
Joannie Douville’s contemporary dance class is designed for professional performers seeking to refine their presence, body awareness and movement availability. Through guided improvisations, the work emphasizes deep listening to the body, quality of engagement and a dynamic relationship to space. Occasional technical floor work sequences support the development of movement efficiency, fluid transitions and groundedness, within an approach that is both rigorous and sensitive.

About Joannie

Joannie Douville is a performer and educator with degrees in dance and psychology, based in the Laurentians. For over a decade, she has performed locally and internationally in dance, theatre, multimedia and performance art. Driven by a strong interest in creation processes rooted in encounter, she views movement as a shared language accessible to all. Committed to inclusive practices, she completed a master’s in dance education and co-authored An Inclusive Approach to Teaching Dance with Corpuscule Danse. She currently serves as Director of Education and Cultural Mediation for the company.

Elise Legrand

Laurentians
March 30, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
March 31, 10:00 a.m. à 12:00 p.m.
Studio de Danse Laurentides

Classe Description
Drawing from her background in contemporary dance, circus, classical ballet, yoga and tai chi—as well as training routines developed over the years—Elise Legrand’s class weaves together diverse elements to maximize bodily openness and readiness. The session begins with a thorough warm-up, followed by physical training through a variety of exercises and movement sequences both in space and on the floor. Particular attention is given to the circulation of energy, the trajectory of impulse, and the awakening of the joints across a range of movement qualities and textures.

About Elise

Elise Legrand is a dancer and choreographer based in Sherbrooke with over twenty years of experience in contemporary dance performance and creation. A 2002 graduate of the Conservatoire de danse de Montréal, she has collaborated with choreographers and companies including Sinha Danse, PPS Danse and Sursaut, touring extensively across Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin America. She has taught professional classes and introductory contemporary dance workshops for diverse communities in Québec and Puerto Rico. Since 2010, she has created and presented her own choreographic work, with a strong interest in site-specific and multidisciplinary creation.

Emmanuelle Lê Phan

Québec
April 13 to 17
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Maison pour la danse de Québec

Classe Description
Emmanuelle Lê Phan’s class explores the intersection of breaking, popping and contemporary partnering principles to develop a movement vocabulary that is both powerful and precise. Through floor work, inversions, freezes and dynamic traveling sequences, participants cultivate flow, dynamic range and control. The approach brings mechanical precision into dialogue with organic fluidity, generating illusion, complexity and depth—both in individual execution and in relationship to a partner.

About Emmanuelle

Originally from Ottawa, Emmanuelle Lê Phan develops a contemporary hip-hop style informed by breaking and contemporary dance. Co-founder of Tentacle Tribe with Elon Höglund, she creates works presented internationally. Active since 1999 under the alias b-girl Cleopatra, she has distinguished herself in competitions and as a breaking judge. She has performed with RUBBERBAND, Bboyizm and Out Innerspace, and has collaborated with Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Éloize. Based in Québec City, she founded the Festival Coro Casse.

David Rancourt

Laurentians
April 13 and 20
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Studio de Danse Laurentides

Classe Description
David Rancourt’s class offers a hybrid of dance techniques and bodywork informed by principles of Qi Gong. Drawing on simplified forms from classical, modern and contemporary dance, it aims to cultivate ease, agility and integrity of movement. Particular attention is given to the relationship between breath and body weight. The practice then unfolds in space through exercises, sequences and improvisations, balancing formal rigor with freedom and a refined, embodied awareness.

About David

David Rancourt has been a Montréal-based dance artist since 1999. Artistic Director of PPS Danse, he works as a choreographer, rehearsal director, performer and teacher. He has been part of the Fragments Libres school team for over fifteen years, where he teaches and practices Qi Gong. In dance, he leads workshops focused on creative process, interpretation, partnering and technical training.

Fabien Piché

Québec
May 11 to 15
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Maison pour la danse de Québec

Classe Description
Fabien Piché’s class explores principles of floor work and interconnection to cultivate a collective awareness of movement, carried by a positive and unifying energy. Inspired in part by Flying Low, developed by David Zambrano, it invites participants to expand their physical range through short sequences combining precision, speed and ease. The approach encourages full physical engagement, group attunement and the pleasure of movement, within a framework centered on joy and inclusion.

About Fabien

Fabien Piché grew up in Bas-Saint-Laurent and graduated from the École de danse de Québec in 2010. Since then, he has worked as a performer and creative collaborator in dance and theatre, exploring interdisciplinary performance forms that question intimacy and human connection. In 2022, he trained in Flying Low and Passing Through with David Zambrano at the Tictac Art Centre. He occasionally teaches at the École de danse de Québec and the École de cirque de Québec. His approach, both playful and sensitive, emphasizes interconnection, dialogue and experimentation.

The Regroupement québécois de la danse’s regional classes, offered in collaboration with L’Artère art de la danse et du mouvement and Danse Laurentides, are made possible through financial support from the Gouvernement du Québec, via the Intervention-Compétences program of Compétence Culture.