GREAT MOVING DANCERS

GREAT

The teachers at GMD want to support you as you strive to fulfill your goals. We believe that dancers should spread their wings and take in a variety of training approaches.

MOVING

GMD has gathered a group of many of the city’s most acclaimed teachers, so you can experience an assortment of tastes, colours and textures that will help you develop your versatility, build strength, and trigger your imaginations.

DANCERS

We believe dance class is a place where you can grow, take risks, get stronger, share energy, have fun, let go, gain confidence and so much more. Your passion, energy and optimism are what make dance in TO vital and essential.

ABOUT

Drop-in Modern and Contemporary dance training for intermediate/advanced students and professional dancers in Toronto.

Thank you for dancing with us on Zoom. Times are tough, so we will continue with these affordable classes to keep you training and feeling connected to our community.

CALENDAR

ELKE SCHROEDER

Elke Schroeder is a Toronto-based Canadian dance artist. A graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre in 2005, she has worked with Lucy Rupert /Blue Ceiling Dance, Alias Dance Project, TILT Sound + Motion, Catalyst Dance Company, Lindsay Ritter Dance and with choreographers Jenn Goodwin, Amanda Acorn, Susie Burpee, Andrea Nann, and Daryl C. Tracy (among others). Currently, she is creating solo works for her company, One Animal Movement.

Elke’s diverse movement background includes dance of many styles, floorwork, acrobatics, yoga (Octopus Garden Teachers Training and Mentorship programs graduate), functional movement and martial arts. Her greatest influence is the Fighting Monkey Practice, a task-based, longevity-driven practice created by Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea (RootlessRoot). A close student of Jozef and Linda, Elke is a recognized FM instructor. In addition, she owes much credit to her other main teachers for inspiration: David Zambrano (creator of Flying Low), Iñaki Azpillaga (Ultima Vez) and Peter Jasko (Les Slovaks).

A passionate teacher, Elke has taught for organizations such as Spirit Loft (Toronto), Toronto Dance Community Love-in, L’Artère Danse (Québec), the University of Calgary, Movati (Barrhaven), Alias Dance Company (Toronto), YYoga (Brussels), Jane Clapp/Movement for Trauma (Toronto), YMI Dancers (Toronto) and Mosaic Yoga (Toronto). She is still an active creator and performer of contemporary dance and travels her work throughout Canada and abroad.

JOHANNA BERGFELT

Johanna Bergfelt, a native of Sweden, graduated from The Royal Swedish Ballet School in 1989. She has an extensive performance background beginning with Östgötabaletten, where she worked for six years, and later joined Norrdans and the Barents Dance Ensemble. Since coming to Canada in 2000, Johanna has worked with Pro Arte Danza, The Chimera Project, Kaeja d’Dance, Kathleen Rea, Santee Smith, Darcey Callison, Louis Laberge Cote, Kate Alton, Holly Small, William Yong, and the Toronto Dance Theatre, where she was a company dancer for six years. Johanna has been nominated three times for a Dora Mavor Moore Award.

Johanna’s teaching career started while working with the Barents Dance Ensemble, where she taught the company classes. In Toronto, Johanna teaches at In Studio, Dance-Teq, the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre, and GMD. In 2011, Johanna joined Canada’s National Ballet School, where she teaches Modern Dance in the Professional Ballet Program as well as the Teacher Training Program. She is also a Pilates Instructor at the Pilates Process.

SIGN UP

There are two easy ways to take GMD class on Zoom:

$7 per class

A monthly pass will be $27 – for 8 or 9 classes.
This comes to only $3.40 or $3.00/class. An amazing deal!

Both payable by e-transfer* to gmdtoronto509@gmail.com

*Please include the following information in the message accompanying your e-transfer:

DATE of class (or classes) you are paying for at $7/class,

MONTH for which you are purchasing an unlimited monthly pass at $27/month.

AND

YOUR email address (so we know where to send the link!)

Every GMD Zoom class will have a unique link. Once payment is received, your email address will be added to our class list. The Zoom link will be sent by email at 10 am on the morning of class. Please ensure that payment is sent no later than 9:30 a.m. on the morning of class. You are welcome (and invited) to pay for class the day before.

GMD is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council

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