COURSES OFFERED BY LES GRANDS BALLETS CANADIENS DE MONTRéAL

The world’s first ballet school, the Académie royale de danse, was founded there in 1661. It is at the Académie that Pierre Beauchamp invented the five positions of ballet, to which the corresponding arm positions were added in the 19th century.

Emotion is the wellspring of the expressive gesture in modern dance, in contrast to the aestheticism and virtuosity of classical ballet.

Contemporary dance is the exploration of the total movement potential of the body.

Little or no experience in flamenco?  This class primarily focuses on developing a basic sense of musicality. Learn all the useful words and familiarize yourself with some basic movements and start developing coordination, interpretation, listening and assertiveness.

Little or no experience in tap? Enter the universe of a tap dance course, learn familiar words and familiarize yourself with basic movements.

Little or no experience in jazz? Learn all the useful words and familiarize yourself with some basic movements.

Explore a fusion of different urban dance styles such as hip-hop, popping, locking, and break as well as freestyle movement. Develop your focus, strength and musicality, define your own style and learn how to associate your inner rhythms with precision and emotion.

Feel good and move freely by incorporating Pilates into your training routine.

Practice at the barre by mixing techniques from ballet, pilates and yoga to tone, shape and sculpt your body.

A completely original workout that draws on the flowing movements of tai chi, which create health and balance, the strengthening theories from ballet, which create long, lean, flexible muscles, and the healing principles of physiotherapy, which create a pain free body.