Share Dance: Classes & Facilitators
Our Share Dance program gives teaching opportunities to Dance artists from diverse styles and provides them with trauma-informed tools to better support underserved and at risk communities. Some of the classes we currently provide are: Contemporary Indigenous, Hip-Hop, Contemporary, Jazz, Latin Dances and more!
JHOELY TRIANA
Flamenco
This class explores emotions, energy and rhythm through flamenco movements. Jhoely focuses on movements of the arms and hands, making rhythms with the feet, clapping along to keep the beat, and calling out “Olé” to have fun.
HARMANIE ROSE
Movement is Magic!
Join Harmanie for a class where everybody can dance. Together we will move and play using stories and props to embrace everyone’s unique abilities: from the smallest small to the biggest BIG. This class is beginner-friendly and is geared toward age groups 3 to 5, 6 to 9, and 10+. All abilities are welcome.
NYLA CARPENTIER
Powwow Dance Class
This class introduces the different dance styles that you would see at a pow wow and the basic steps of traditional, jingle & fancy. Nyla Carpentier (Tahltan/Kaska), a pow wow dancer with over 30 years of experience, will guide participants through the class.
At the start there will be a warm-up, followed by learning the dance styles and then a cool down with stretching. Basic steps and formations will be shown, and the history and origins of dance styles will be shared. Dress in comfortable clothing and be ready to get sweaty.
KEVIN LI
Finger Tutting
This class focuses on the street dance style tutting/finger tutting. Tutting style is inspired by ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and emphasizes the body’s ability to create geometric angles, lines and shapes. Semi 90 degree angles and boxes are the most common examples. The main focus is on arms, wrists and hands. The sub style finger tutting is essentially tutting on a smaller scale, focusing on the digits and joints in the hands.
Tutting can be done whether you prefer using your whole body or sitting down, everybody is welcomed!
TAIYO SEO
Breakdancing
Break Dance, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling is an athletic style of street dance. Break Dance consists of four different elements: top rock, footwork, power Trix, power move which develops different parts of body muscles. But breakdancing is now not only a famous hip-hop dance style, it is a sport. And not just any sport, it’s an Olympic sport – following a bold decision by the International Olympic Committee to have BBoys and BGirls compete at the 2024 Paris Games.
MARCO ESCCER
Dancing Emotions
Through playful and dynamic dance explorations this workshop will provide a dynamic way to rediscover our bodies and connect with others through movement exploration. Participants can discover and play with their range of emotions! Come and explore your fullest expression so you can keep enjoying the nuances of the up and down days!
Classes can be delivered in English, Spanish or Spanglish if required.
ALEXANDRA CLANCY
Find Your Rhythm!
Everyone is invited to come and express their inner rhythm. Explore sound and movement while learning the Black American art form of Tap Dance. We will work to find the groove in our bodies, establish a grounded relationship to the floor, and actively listen to the music we both hear and create. Through rhythmic exercises and choreographic phrases, we will enhance coordination, balance, and musicality, feeling our movements become one with the beat.
Whether we are making noise with our feet, our body, or our voice, we will have fun connecting with ourselves, each other, rhythm, and the music!
No prior dance experience is required, and all ages are welcome.
FIANA KAWANE
Kathak Movement Class
All are warmly welcome to this movement class by Fiana Kawane based on Kathak, a South Asian classical dance form. The class may be a combination of warm-up, demo, practice, and/or dance party. There will be an introduction to patterns and geometries that are core to Kathak like foundational rhythm cycles, footwork, and movements. No prior preparation or experience in Kathak is expected. The primary goal of the shared time and space of the class is to engage and experiment with Kathak in a movement-friendly environment, learn about its intimate relationship with music and the heartbeat, and experience embodied techniques of relating the self to the world.
CHANTAL D. GERING
Musical theatre & Clown
This class includes clowning games, freestyle dance, devised group choreography, vocal warm ups and character exploration.
Come dance, sing, and improv in a playful movement environment that invites song and dance to connect!
REBECCA MARGOLICK
Creative Expression & Movement
Rebecca's dance class encourages creative expression and freedom of movement. Drawing from improvisation and group activities, she sparks creative choice-making, imagination, physicality, and a deep sense of community. The class fosters a supportive space of self-expression, listening, and connecting to others.
CALDER WHITE
Floorworkshop
This workshop will provide a space for us to investigate how to use the principles of momentum and counter-direction to safely and efficiently pour weight into the floor. We will research how to fold and position our bodies to roll, slide, spill and sweep through space. We will use developmental movement pathways to become more comfortable with gravity, and we will embrace the bumps and clunks that occur along the way.
SARAH HUTTON
Contemporary Dance Patterns & Pathways
Through a series of across the floor progressions and basic partner exercises we will explore our relationship to the floor, weight, and our partners. We will use repetition to deepen our understanding of a movement and invite complexity to evolve naturally as we work. The play of musicality, momentum, speed, coordination, and pleasure will guide us in revealing the nuances of our dancing. Some exercises might involve contact with a partner.
