Wednesday March 4 | 10:00-11:30 AM

Halifax Dance

1505 Barrington St Lobby Level, Halifax, NS B3J 3Y6

$10/PWYC At Door

Participants engage in layered physical tasks that accumulate, fracture, and reorganize over time. Through repetition, disruption, and sustained attention, the body becomes both architect and archive — building complex structures from simple constraints. Vanessa guides dancers to explore how sensation, breath, rhythm, and material conditions shape movement, encouraging a deep listening practice that expands physical range while refining intention.

Vanessa’s facilitation balances rigor and care. She creates spaces where experimentation and
vulnerability coexist, emphasizing sustainability, consent, and embodied agency. Participants are invited 
to examine how movement can hold complexity — how the body can oscillate between strength and
softness, structure and surrender, containment and release.

This workshop is suitable for professional dancers, emerging artists, interdisciplinary performers, and
advanced students interested in deepening their compositional practice.

At its core, Vanessa’s teaching centers reciprocity: the exchange of ideas, histories, and lived experience.
Her workshops are not only technical investigations, but shared inquiries into how we move, how we
relate, and how we author meaning through the body.