2025-2026 Regional Classes

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$10/class

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

David Rancourt

Laurentians
April 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.

Jamie Wright

Laurentians
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
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.

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.