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Dorian Nuskind-Oder – Ballet for Wonderers and Wanderers
16 ⇾ Mar. 19 2026 (Monday – Thursday)
09:30 to 12:30
Weekly rate:$80
Drop-in:$28
French, English
#Technique
© Simon Grenier-Poirier
Objective
This workshop offers an entry point into ballet practice in environment that is informal but rigorous. Together, we’ll explore how the individual reality of our bodies can productively engage with the geometries of the form.
We’ll approach difficult movements and complex coordinations with curiosity, playfulness and a sense of humour. We’ll inject our dancing with fabulous images and over the top theatricality. And we’ll practice moving big, moving together and taking up space with confidence.
Slowly but surely, we will discover our own pathways towards the levity and expansiveness which is at the heart of balletic technique.
Content
Each day will be structured in the traditional form of a ballet class:
- A progressive warm up at the barre, systematically mobilizing the joints, and practicing the coordinations of head, arms, torso and feet which form the building blocks of ballet vocabulary
- A series of exercises in the center which engage with different movement dynamics (slow, quick, waltzing, turning, jumping)
We’ll have the luxury of a longer than usual class duration, which leaves time for questions, snack breaks, and trying things more than once.
Some exercises will remain the same all week, to allow experience to accumulate, but new ones will also be introduced each day.
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Accessibility Features
Biography
Dorian Nuskind-Oder is a choreographer and cultural worker. Her works include Looper (2024), a collaboration with circus artist Elena Lev; Speed Glue (2019), a choreographic score for two table tennis players; and Memory Palace (2016), a performance for three people with a background in social or folkloric dance forms. She is co-director of Le Radeau, an artist-run production company.
Partners
This workshop is supported by the Conseil de la formation continue arts et culture de Montréal (CFC) in collaboration with Studio 303. The CFC’s continuing education activities are supported by the Intervention-Compétences program, thanks to the financial participation of the Quebec government.
