Two more Movement Flow classes with Max Hanic this month at MZD!
Sundays, 12:30-2 PM
May 10, 17
$20 drop-in | $45 monthly
Mile Zero Dance is located at 9931 78 Ave NW
Register in advance online or drop-in at the studio!
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ABOUT THE CLASS
After a simple yet vigorous warm up meant to mobilize and bring stability to our joints while making us aware of the weight of our hands, feet and heads; we will roll, spiral, crawl, slide, be upside down, jump and turn in follow the leader style coordinations across the space. This class emphasizes fun and low barrier to entry while challenging our strength, coordination, balance and awareness of momentum with influences from my training in floorwork dance, martial arts, contact improvisation, flying low, countertechnique and ballet.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
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 and at Modus Operandi in Vancouver from 2024-2025. 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 choreographers Molly Mcdermott, Francesca Frewer, Lin Snelling, Alexis Fletcher, Minggao Zhang, Susanna Hood, Jennifer Mcleish-Lewis and more. He is currently working on a solo piece to be premiered at Mile Zero Dance in the fall of 2025. He has been nominated for a Sterling award and is the recipient of the 2025 Gerda Hnatyshyn award for contemporary dance.
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Photo credit | Michael Reinhart
Thought I would share some more photos taken by @michaelreinhartimage from my last showing for “Kneeture’s Gift”. Thank you for these Michael.
Really excited to share my work so far on this @milezerodance
Huge huge huge thank you to @stromberryjam for her beautiful sound and support all throughout this process. Been a dream!
October 17th and 18th at 7:30 PM at Mile Zero Dance
Come watch my show @milezerodance October 17th and 18th @ 7:30!
Created in collaboration with the beautiful sound designs of Autumn Strom
Kneeture’s Gift is a dance reflection on concepts of yearning, lucky omens and tiny evil creatures. Kneeture is conceived as being a trickster being that is an omen of luck to behold; he has come to this performance with the intention of mocking, blessing and charming the audience.
Special thanks to @milezerodance@oddmeridianarts
This piece was created through the support of a contemporary dance launch grant from @hnatyshynfoundation
Poster design: @hellosophiemay
Dramaturgy/outside eye work: @emitsuhashi@valeriabusani
Meet the laureates 🔸 Launch Grants
Max Hanic is a queer, Sterling Award-nominated actor, dancer, singer and instructor raised in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). He graduated with distinction from the University of Alberta Fine Arts Acting program and studied contemporary dance at La Faktoria Choreographic Centre in Pamplona, Spain (2021-2022) and at Modus Operandi in Vancouver (2024-2025).
With the help of the Launch Grant, Hanic will refine Kneeture’s Gift, a dance-theatre solo piece that will be premiered at Mile Zero Dance Society in Edmonton this fall. In this work, “Kneeture,” a clown dance character created by Hanic, shares his gift in stage, thus revealing what is always a gift: our lives, our pain, our miseries and our joys. Using the language of dance, Hanic explores such questions as “how is struggle in life a gift?; Can irony and sincerity exist at the same time within a solo dance?; Can abstract dance material be funny?”
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Découvrez les lauréat•es 🔸 Bourses de lancement
Max Hanic est un acteur, danseur, chanteur et instructeur queer, nominé aux Sterling Awards, qui a grandi à Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). Il est diplômé avec distinction du programme d’art dramatique de l’Université de l’Alberta et a étudié la danse contemporaine au Centre chorégraphique La Faktoria à Pampelune, en Espagne (2021-2022) et au Modus Operandi à Vancouver (2024-2025).
Avec le soutien de la Bourse de lancement, Hanic perfectionnera Kneeture’s Gift, une pièce solo de danse-théâtre qui sera présentée en première à la Mile Zero Dance Society à Edmonton cet automne. Dans cette pièce, « Kneeture », un personnage de danse clownesque créé par Hanic, partage un cadeau avec le public et révèle ce qui est toujours un cadeau : nos vies, nos souffrances, nos misères et nos joies. À travers le langage de la danse, Hanic explore des questions telles que « en quoi les difficultés de la vie sont-elles un cadeau ? », « L’ironie et la sincérité peuvent-elles coexister dans une danse solo ? », et « Une danse abstraite peut-elle être drôle ? »
📷 Janice Saxon; Michael Reinhard (2-3); Nanc Price
since the end of october i have been living like a bus/train/plane pirate, taking dance workshops and getting to see some of the amazing people the universe has blessed me with. Right now I am a week into a really bad strep infection that hospitalized me and i think was my body’s way of saying that i needed to actually sleep for once. I have so many amazing photos and memories from this trip and this really does not do it justice, if i got to see you these past few months please know that i love you and i really just feel so lucky for all the people in my life and these amazing experiences. I have one more week in Montréal, if you want to connect let me know! I am feeling much better. Next I am back in Edmonton for some really exciting projects. Love to you all ❤️
