Training Society of Vancouver

✨TSV’s last classes before summer break!✨
THIS WEEK!
Eric Cheung - July 14/16
🔥

Bio:
Eric Cheung is a second-generation Chinese-Canadian inter-disciplinary street dance artist and choreographer based in so-called Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations. Eric has cultivated a singular approach to generating movement and choreography that is recognized nationally and internationally, with his specialization in the Popping style while incorporating outside influences and other dance styles in his practice.

Eric has been a company member of Ouro Collective since 2018, a street dance contemporary company, partaking in the creation process of HAKO, SOTTO51, Fire06, 7y98D (Theatre / Film) in collaboration with RubberLegZ, Ouro Excerpts and Ouroboros.

Individually, Eric explores different mediums to expand the boundaries of street dance further in various artistic forms of film, theatre, digital new media, interactive experiences and art installations. Select works include E_GO, I(n)finite, Re:1974, iye, Diverge, Flux, Liminal, Null, and Flux. Additionally, Eric has presented solo theatre works and exhibited at Place Des Arts, Pact Zollervin, Phi Centre, La Nuit Blanche, Music Conservatory of Montreal, VIVO, Polygon Gallery, VAG, SFU, and Festive Acces Asie. Eric has collaborated with Acronym, ASUS ROG, CBC Arts, Spencer Badu, Company 605, Spy Films, Modus Operandi, and RubberLegZ. �cheung-eric.com

Photo Credit: Sebastian Palencia

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

➡️REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

#2025

✨TSV’s last classes before summer break!✨
UP NEXT
Eric Cheung- July 14/16
🔥

Class Description:
Eric Cheung’s class will be a pathway focused class, learning techniques and foundations from Popping specifically styles of Waving and Tutting to develop new sequences that seamlessly link with each other creating more fluidity and connections between each movement.
The class will be comprised of foundational drills, guided conceptual freestyle, and phrase work aiming to give you new tools and ideas to generate new pathways for your individual dance practice.

Photo Credit: Abhishek Dhoj Joshi

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

➡️REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

#2025

THIS WEEK!
Isak Enquist - July 7/9/11
🌊

Bio:
Isak Enquist is a movement artist, choreographer, actor, teacher, and experimental sound designer based on the unceded territories of the Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, Skwxwú7mesh, and xʷməθkwəy̓əm Nations. Originally raised in Ktunaxa territory, he began his formal training in Shotokan Karate-Do before pursuing post-secondary dance education at Simon Fraser University and Modus Operandi.

Isak has performed both nationally and internationally with a range of Canadian performing companies, including Out Innerspace, Compagnie Vision Impure, Shay Kuebler Radical System Art, Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien, Amber Funk Barton, Mascall Dance, Generous Mess, Cristina Bucci, Anne Plamondon Productions, and Corporeal Imago.�
He is currently on faculty at Vancouver’s Harbour Dance Centre, Lamon Dance Company, and Goh Ballet Academy, and is also a guest teacher with the Training Society of Vancouver, M.O. Link, and GötesborgOperan Danskompani (Sweden), among others.

Photo Credit: Richie Libation

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

➡️REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

#2025

UP NEXT!
Isak Enquist - July 7/9/11
🌊

Class Description:
This class is centered on pouring weight into the floor, accessing the horizontal plane, and generating power through complex spirals. We’ll explore momentum, counter-direction, and the efficient transfer of energy through hands and feet to create grounded, expansive movement.

Rooted in Isak Enquist’s diverse movement background—including Shotokan Karate-Do, Breaking, snowboarding, Graham, Horton, and contemporary forms—the class develops stability as a platform for creativity. Each session includes a physical warm-up, across-the-floor progressions, and phrase work in the center.

Open to professional and emerging dancers alike, this practice emerges from a belief in expanding embodied expression beyond dominant ballet aesthetics. ​​By sharing alternative physical language, this class supports artists in expanding their range, and encourages the reclamation of movement, embodiment, and personal expression.

Photo Credit: Lula-Belle Jedynak

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

➡️REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

#2025

THIS WEEK!
Jenna Berlyn - June 30/July 2/4
☀️

Bio:
Jenna Berlyn is a freelance contemporary dance artist based in Berlin, Germany since 2022, originally from Vancouver, Canada. Focusing on contemporary dance, floorwork and improvisation, she also has a background in ballet, contact dance and visual arts. Jenna is driven by a desire to create, explore and build community as a dancer and choreographer.

Working with the weight of desire, she pulls inspiration from dream logic, poetry, intimacy, and the blurred edges of reality to create her choreography and interpretation. Through dance, she understands how it is to be human, embodied, and connected in a world that is both overwhelming and tender. Jenna is a co-founder and performer of the collective SLEX ART, which creates interdisciplinary performances, installations and media.

She is an arts and culture activist, and supports the preservation of cultural scenes. As a teacher, she has taught for Modus Operandi Link and Training Society in Vancouver, Embody Riga in Latvia, and Dock 11, Humboldt Universität, Technische Universität and other studios in Berlin.

Photo Credit: Hannah Merl

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

➡️REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

#2025

UP NEXT!
Jenna Berlyn - June 30/July 2/4
☀️

Class Description:
This class will explore contemporary dance and floorwork through set material and improvisations that challenge the dancer’s coordination, strength and flexibility.
Dancers will strive for fluidity and agility with the floor as the partner, moving from low to high levels, upside down and through acrobatic movements. As the class progresses, the pace, range and complexity of movement will be challenged.

Photo courtesy of artist

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

➡️REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

#2025

Jenna Berlyn

THIS WEEK!
Daisy Thompson - June 27
⚡️

Class Description:
Through simple movement phrases journeying between the floor and standing, we will explore fundamental body patterning that energizes the core and articulates through the bones, to find ease and efficiency in our moving. The class challenges the dancer in moving through upside-down space, backspace, and in and out of the floor.

Photo Credit: Thelonius Mthombeni

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

➡️REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

#2025

THIS WEEK!
Rianne Svelnis - June 25
🪐

Bio:
Rianne Svelnis is a q***r dance artist and a settler of European descent living in colonially occupied so-called 'Vancouver', on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ territory. She is a graduate of Modus Operandi Contemporary Dance Training Program, and has continued her training with significant mentors such as Peter Bingham, Justine Chambers, Helen Walkley, Emmalena Fredriksson and Damián Criollo (Ecuador). Rianne has taught at Harbour Dance Centre, Training Society of Vancouver, All Bodies Dance Project, Polymer Dance, Echoing Frog and Espacio Expectante (Mexico). Rianne also co-facilitates Movement Classes for Support Workers with Alexa Solveig Mardon, All Bodies Dance at Carnegie Community Center with Lance Lim and Kevin Li, and is the lead facilitator of the Carnegie Dance Troupe (Karen Jamieson Dance)

Rianne has had the pleasure of performing in works by Ziyian Kwan (Dumb Instrument Dance), Justine Chambers, MACHiNOiSY, Emmalena Fredriksson, Olivia Davies, romham gallacher, Sasha Kleinplatz, Daisy Thompson, and Damián Criollo (Ecuador), among others. Rianne has also created choreographic work in collaboration with All Bodies Dance, Zahra Shahab, Kelly McInnes and Areli Moran (Mexico) and is co-creator of the digital archive waterfallfallingforeveragain with Andrea Cownden and Layla Marcelle.

Photo courtesy of artist

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

➡️REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

#2025

THIS WEEK!
Daisy Thompson - June 23 & 27
✨

Bio:
Daisy teaches dance technique and improvisation at various locations including Simon Fraser University (SFU), University of British Columbia (UBC), Training Society of Vancouver, WeDance, Link program (Modus Operandi), amongst others.

Photo Credit: Thelonius Mthombeni

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

➡️REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

#2025

UP NEXT!
Rianne Svelnis - June 16
🧡

Class Description:
I love dance class as a site-specific practice, a community gathering space, and a place of witnessing, bonding and multidirectional knowledge sharing.
Warming up improvisationally, we’ll lasso our attention towards the body’s play with physics. We will cover floor work fundamentals, increasing the complexity and range of level and dynamic to culminate in collective dancing. Set phrases are studies of cradling, swinging, slithering, anchoring, yield and rebound, and inversion.

✨TSV Community Week means pay what you can, we just what to dance and share space with our incredible community!
Thank you to our generous teachers for donating their time and skills💙

Photo Credit: Luciana Freire D’Anunciação

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

#2025

THIS WEEK!
Shion Skye Carter - June 9/11/13
💙

Bio:
Shion Skye Carter (she/they) is a dance artist originally from Gifu, Japan, who lives and dedicates time to their artistic practice in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded, traditional lands of the Coast Salish peoples. Through choreography hybridized with heritage art forms such as calligraphy interacting with objects and design, Shion’s work utilizes a sensitive intensity to navigate identity and the body’s complex internal and external worlds through performance. Recent presentations of Shion’s work include Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Tangente (Montréal), Live Art Dance (Halifax), b12 free radicals (Berlin), and L’AiR Arts (Paris).

As a performer, they have worked with artists such as Anya Saugstad, Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance), Wen Wei Dance, plastic orchid factory, and Ziyian Kwan (Odd Meridian Arts). Shion holds a BFA in Dance from Simon Fraser University, and is the recipient of the Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award (2022) and the Chrystal Dance Prize (2023).
shionskyecarter.com

Photo Credit: Mateus Studios

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO

UP NEXT!
Shion Skye Carter - June 9/11/13
💙

Class Description:
This class will involve both improvisation and choreographed sequences, with an aim
to feel vibrant in the body. Through explorations that contrast between tension, control,
fluidity, and release, we’ll discover various qualities and dynamics in our dance,
occasionally pulling from my choreographic practice embodying calligraphy as a
movement meditation. Let’s set a fun and focused tone together, that prepares us to
take on the rest of our day.

Photo Credit: Mateus Studios

Training Society of Vancouver | Working Class | | $15 / Drop-in | Rad teachers | Professional & Advanced Level Contemporary Dance

REGISTER @ LINK IN BIO