Summer Intensive Weekend 2025

@ Harbour Dance Studios, Nanaimo

Through a series of centre exercises, across the floor progressions, and phrases of movement we will explore our relationship to the floor, weight, and our momentum. We will use repetition to deepen our understanding of a movement and invite complexity to evolve naturally as we work and experiment. The play of musicality, momentum, speed, coordination, and joy will guide us in revealing the nuances of our dancing.
In this class Sarah will share some of the partnering tools, ideas, and curiosities she uses in her company’s creative practice and partnering choreography. The class will start with a series of exercises and games to warm up our sensation, listening, weight sharing, and moving into our back spaces. Next, we will practice some partnering pathways and switch roles and partners so we can explore the range of possibilities in each movement.
Sarah will be sharing a creative concept from her company’s repertoire and work collaboratively with the class to explore and build movement. Using independent movement creation, improvisation, and group tasks this will be a valuable chance to practice how to work with a choreographer/creator.

Schedule: Saturday, July 5 & Sunday July 6, 2025 | 11am-5:15pm each day*

*with Guest Artists Q&A on Saturday, July 5 at 5:15pm.

Location: Harbour Dance Studios, Nanaimo

Tuition: $250

Sarah Hutton Photo by Albert Normandin

Sarah Hutton is a dancer, actor, choreographer, teacher, and rehearsal director. She lives and works as a guest on the unceded and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Originally from Hanna Alberta, she moved to Vancouver in 2013 and has since trained with the Source Dance Company, EDAM, Modus Operandi, and Peggy Baker’s Emerging Artists Program. Sarah’s other training includes RUBBERBANDance Method and scene study classes with Nadine Wright. She has had the pleasure to collaborate with Paras Terezakis, Shay Kuebler, Rachel Helten, Isak Enquist, Khoudia Toure, Constance Cooke, and Anya & Sophia Saugstad. Touring with Radical System Art has brought Sarah to perform in France, Austria, the United States and across Canada. Sarah Co-Directs the contemporary dance company, Generous Mess, with her partner Aiden Cass. Generous Mess’s work has been presented at Dancing On The Edge Festival, the EDAM Choreographic Series, Left of Push, and Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers. Sarah has had the honour to share her teaching practice with students at Training Society of Vancouver, Harbour Dance Centre, Pulse Dance Centre, Modus Operandi, Echoing Frog, YYC Contemporary Drop-Ins, Lamondance, Coastal City Ballet and many more.

Sarah Hutton Photo by: Albert Normandin