This class will serve as a warm up for a dancing day with an emphasis on functional movement through and with the skeleton, the folding and rounding of joints and careful attention to vectors of directional energy. We will start with a warm up meant to help us move from horizontal to vertical organization as well as through space with attention to principles of shifting weight and support from the body’s architecture. We will learn patterns for moving “across the floor”, jumping, turning and some mid size dance phrases. We will also explore some strategies and tasks meant to increase our improvisational vocabulary and awareness while improvising. Max’ dance class is inspired by flying low, countertechnique, contact improvisation, ballet and a wide variety of somatic and improvisational practices. Values will be efficiency, ease, swing, momentum, pleasure and curiosity. This class is geared towards intermediate and advanced movers but Max will always try his best to accommodate a wide variety of needs and prides himself on being able to adjust to the room.
Max Hanic is a queer Amiskwaciwâskahikan raised actor, dancer, singer and instructor who graduated with distinction from the University of Alberta Fine Arts Acting program and studied contemporary dance at La Faktoria Choreographic Centre in Pamplona, Spain for the 2021/2022 period after being awarded grants from the Edmonton Arts Council and the Canadian Council for the Arts. Max has been given training scholarships by EDAM (Vancouver), The Good Women Dance Collective (Edmonton) and Circuit-Est (Montréal) as well as trained at Tic Tac Art Centre (Brussels), Espacio Tiempo (Madrid) and at the One Body One Career Countertechnique intensive in Amsterdam. He has performed with the Edmonton Opera, Firefly Theatre and Circus, Amoris Projects, Catch the Keys Productions and in his own choreographies; as well as worked with Molly Mcdermott, Francesca Frewer, Lin Snelling, Alexis Fletcher, Minggao Zhang, Susanna Hood, Jennifer Mcleish-Lewis and more. He is currently pursuing more dance training in Vancouver with Modus Operandi and working on a solo piece to be premiered at Mile Zero Dance in the fall of 2025.
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