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

BONNIE KIM

Bonnie Kim is a highly regarded dance professional and freelance writer. She trained at Claude Watson School for the Arts and the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, and has performed with numerous artists and companies including Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, Marie-Josée Chartier, Peter Chin and Claudia Moore.

She was rehearsal and associate director of Dancemakers for nine years, and her writing has been published in The Dance Current, eye Weekly, Toronto Star and Toronto Life.

Read her blog at emmandbee.wordpress.com.

DARRYL TRACY

Darryl Tracy is a Toronto-based independent dance artist (choreographer, interpreter, teacher, and producer). He is a senior faculty member at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, and as a dancer has created roles by many of Canada’s leading choreographers. He and Heidi Strauss were co-artistic directors of Four Chambers dance projects from 1999-2006, commissioning duets from choreographers including Conrad Alexandrowicz, Marie-Josée Chartier, Sarah Chase, Yvonne Coutts, Lesandra Dodson, Sylvain Émard, and Julia Sasso; their duet created by Italian-based company Deja Donne garnered them a nomination in performance for the prestigious Dora Mavor Moore Award. In 2004, Tracy was nominated top dancer in Toronto by NOW magazine, and he was nominated for the K.M. Hunter Award in 2013.

Tracy was part of the company Sylvain Émard Danse in Montreal for over four years, dancing and touring in Émard’s Temps de chien. He has created over 32 of his own works through commissions and self-produced events. Most recently, he has choreographed for Connection Dance (Saint John), École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, The School of Dance (Ottawa), and The School of Toronto Dance Theatre.

His most recent professional works have been performance art installations and video shorts, seen at Rhubarb Festival, Inside Out Festival, and Nuit Rose Festival. He premiered two new works in October 2017 at The Imperial Theatre in Saint John, NB.

Tracy sits on the Board of adelheid dance projects, and he works part-time as a neuro-based rehabilitation physiotherapist with Physio-Logic and University Health Network (Lyndhurst Centre).

LARRY GRAVES will be playing for Darryl’s class on Thursday!

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

Header and About Image by Marlowe Porter