Yukon Contemporary Training Community

WE'RE BACK ❤️‍🔥 We kick off our 2026/27 season in less than 2 weeks and we couldn't be more excited. We are shaking things up a bit this season with some changes. We heard your requests for more classes spread out throughout the year so we are adjusting our season to include more classes in the spring, fall and winter. Here is what you can expect this 2026/27 YCTC Season between now and March 2027: 🌱 4 Advanced/Pro Spring classes 🌞 12 Advanced/Pro Summer classes (with some live accompaniment again!) 🌞 1 Open Level Community class this Summer 🌞 1 Public Viewing class this Summer 🍂 6 Advanced/Pro Fall classes 🍂 2 Open Level Community classes this Fall ❄️ 4 Advanced /Pro Winter classes ❄️ 1 Open Level Community class this Winter We are here to serve the dance community of the Yukon so please let us know what you'd like to see! See you in class on April 28th! Yukon Contemporary Training Community | $12/drop-in | Professional and Advanced Dance Classes | @sadgriff @miika_chocolat

TOMORROW!! Don't forget to come join us for Inter/Advanced Contemporary with Micha tomorrow from 6:00-7:30pm at the Heart of Riverdale! We can't wait to dance with you all 🫶 @miika_chocolat Michaëla St-Pierre (she/her/elle) is an interdisciplinary dance artist born and raised on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nations and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. Drawing inspiration from the power and beauty of the northern natural world, she searches for both strength and tenderness in movement and storytelling. She believes that dance, both as a practice and in performance, can cultivate empathy and help us better understand ourselves and others. Co-founder of YCTC, she is passionate about nurturing the contemporary dance community in the Yukon as well as continuing to create new works through the Celeste et al. collective. @celeste.et.al.collective Photo credits: Drew Berry REGISTER THROUGH THE LINK IN OUR BIO‼️ Yukon Contemporary Training Community | $12/drop in | Professional and Advanced Dance Classes | _____________________________________________ #contemporarydancers #Yukoncontemporarytrainingcommunity #yukondancers #dance #movement

Next up we have Inter/Advanced Contemporary with Micha!! 🙌@miika_chocolat 6:00-7:30pm on May 12th and 19th at the Heart of Riverdale. This class will begin with an image-based improvisation check-in with our bodies and minds, and help us shift into focus for class. We will then progress into some physical conditioning to build heat in the body and ready ourselves for class. The class will include some technical exercises in the centre to activate the stability in our legs and feet, layering on curves and swings with the upper body. We then move into more momentum-based exercises across the floor. We will focus on how using momentum and spiral can help us move in and out of the floor efficiently, with ease and articulation. The class will pull from techniques such as Counter technique and Flying Low & Passing Through. Please bring pants or knee pads and long sleeves to protect your skin while moving on the floor. Photo credits: Drew Berry @drewberry.photography REGISTER THROUGH THE LINK IN OUR BIO🔥🔥 Yukon Contemporary Training Community | $12/drop in | Professional and Advanced Dance Classes | _____________________________________________ #contemporarydancers #Yukoncontemporarytrainingcommunity #yukondancers #dance #movement

Sadie showing us how it’s done in their Int/Adv Contemporary Class last night💪💪 @sadgriff Come dance with us every Tuesday evening all summer long — and register through the link in our bio! 🔥🌱 #contemporarydance #yukoncontemporarytrainingcommunity #yukondancers #dance

TOMORROW 🚨 🚨 @sadgriff will be teaching Inter/Advanced Contemporary at the Heart of Riverdale April 28th and May 5th from 6-7:30pm! Come dance with us🔥🔥 Register at the link in bio! Sadie Segriff is a freelance dancer, choreographer and digital media artist raised in the Yukon and splits their time between Whitehorse and Montréal. As a dancer, Sadie’s focus is contemporary dance and floor work, using momentum and weight to create dynamic movements. Sadie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Performance. As a choreographer and creator, Sadie's work blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces by bringing the inside out and outside in. The natural environment is a constant thread in their artistic practice, whether by integrating projected imagery into a studio setting or by staging dance in site-specific locations. Concepts of place, water, and territory are central to their identity and have a profound impact on their work. Sadie has spent years canoe tripping, following the river's path, capturing videos of the current and taking that movement into the body. Their work evokes reflection and highlights the intricate connections we share with the natural environment around us. Sadie’s new work will be presented at the Yukon Arts Centre in August 2027. Yukon Contemporary Training Community | $12/drop in | Professional and Advanced Dance Classes | #contemporarydancers #Yukoncontemporarytrainingcommunity #yukondancers #dance #movement

We're excited to announce that Adele @adele.harries will be joining our team this year as our Programming and Marketing Coordinator! 🌱 She'll be helping out with the marketing side of things as well as helping Micha facilitate class, so don't be afraid to say hello if you see her around the studio this summer! 🤗 Adele grew up dancing at the Heart of Riverdale and is now going into her 4th year in the Contemporary Dance BFA program at York University in Toronto. She’s been attending YCTC’s classes for the last two summers and is so excited to be a part of their team this season!

We can't wait to start off our 2026 season with two weeks of Inter/Advanced Contemporary with Sadie!! @sadgriff 🌟 Tuesdays April 28th and May 5th at The Heart of Riverdale from 6:00-7:30pm. Join Sadie for their Inter/Advanced Contemporary class, which begins with grounding and introspective improvisation that brings inspiration from our natural world into the studio. Through slow, intentional movement, we’ll build heat and speed. The class will move into physical floorwork, using momentum and weight, which can give way to softness and create fluid and dynamic movement. Please wear long pants and sleeves to protect your skin during floor work. Yukon Contemporary Training Community | $12/drop in | Professional and Advanced Dance Classes | #contemporarydancers #Yukoncontemporarytrainingcommunity #yukondancers #dance #movement

💥 SUMMER DUMP💥 AHHHHH! We are so excited to have successfully brought another summer of dance to the Yukon. THANK YOU to all dancers who participated, and to all the incredible teachers and musicians who made this summer special. Here's a little recap of what was accomplished: • 12 weeks of advanced/professional classes, including contemporary, jazz, house, and ballet • 9 classes accompanied by live music • 14 different teachers engaged, 4 musicians • 152 total participations, meaning just over 6 dancers per class • 41 different dancers throughout the summer *All numbers exclude Traverse intensive* Thinking about these accomplishments gives us goosebumps and thinking about where dance is headed in the Yukon makes us leap with excitement. We are overjoyed with the calibre of teaching and of artistry we were able to bear witness to this summer. As the year continues, we'll keep you updated with our scheming. In the meantime, feel free to reach out if there's anything more YOU want to see up north. Let's get this bread✨ - YCTC

Contemporary dance is alive & well up here in the Yukon 🏔️🌞🙌🏼 @sadgriff crushing the combo across the floor at the Old Fire Hall last month during our first ever intensive weekend. Thanks to @calderwhite for leading some amazing workshops 🫶🏼 and thank you to all the dancers who came out 🎉 we are very proud of our strong and talented community. Thanks to @masonbramadat for capturing some of these moments in the studio together.

Back in August we hosted the most dreamy weekend of dance workshops in the Old Fire Hall with guest artists from Vancouver. . None of it would have been possible without the support of the Yukon Arts Centre @yukonarts through their YAC residency program, our funder the Yukon Government and our sponsor Neighbourly North @neighbourlynorth .

We'd like to take a moment to thank our studio sponsors Northern Lights School of Dance @nlsdyukon & The Heart of Riverdale @theheartofriv 💕 . We truly could not host our classes at affordable rates without the support of the two dance schools of the Yukon as well as our funder the Yukon Government. . THANK YOU!

Throwback to a highlight of our 2025 season when we spent a weekend getting sweaty & inspired in the Old Fire Hall with @calderwhite & @generous_mess (@sarah_hutton & @aidencass ). We are so grateful we got to host talented guest artists from out of town in the beautiful dance space that is the Old Fire Hall. Thank you to the Yukon Arts Center @yukonarts for their support of the project through the YAC residency program. Thanks to @masonbramadat for capturing our time in the space - more of this to come soon! Thanks to the Yukon Government for supporting this training workshops series and thanks to all the beautiful movers who came out 🥰🙌🏼🎉 @miika_chocolat @julian_beairsto @asha_iam @adele.harries @jessiebartsch @dorotheetolgyesi @valthatsme @sadgriff