Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

Summer is just around the corner ☀️

Give your child a week filled with dancing, creativity, music, and new friends at DJD Summer Camps!

🗓 July 6 – August 21
📍 DJD Dance Centre

Weekly camps available all summer long but don't wait long, spots are filling fast.

Register today!

🔗 https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/classes-training/classes/summer-camps/

After more than a decade of collaborating in many forms, dance artists, creators, and mothers Catherine Hayward and Sylvie Moquin are beginning a new chapter with the founding of STRATA & Co.

"STRATA & Co was born from a shared desire to honour both our artistic practices and our family lives — creating space for meaningful work, connection, and community while embracing the complexity of balancing art and motherhood."

Join us June 25–27 at the DJD Dance Centre for Strata Creations, the debut production from STRATA & Co.

Featuring three distinct works, brought to life through original sound scores, live music, and immersive visual media.

• The Shape She Takes by Catherine Hayward — exploring femininity, transformation, and creative survival
• Unmasked by Tara Wilson — examining hidden identities and the layers beneath human expression
• MOTHERLOAD by Sylvie Moquin — exploring womanhood, grief, resilience, and the power of community

Featuring 16 performers, original music by Trish Evans, Edgardo Moreno, and Anthony Denaro (YNOT), immersive visual media, and lighting design by Steve Isom, Calum Maunier, and Kris Mish.

Friday's performance includes a post-show Q&A with the artists, and every performance includes a chance to win special prizes.

Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/strata/2203432



Images by Fifth Wall Media

Looking to keep your training moving this June?

Join company dancer Catherine Hayward for Morning Jazz Training at the DJD Dance Centre. These classes are designed to deepen your jazz technique, artistry, and understanding of stylistic and vernacular nuance in a supportive and challenging environment.

🗓 June 9–25
📍 Tuesdays & Thursdays | 9:30–11:00 AM
📍 DJD Dance Centre

These training classes are for dance teachers, pre-professional and professional level dancers.

Registration is now open through the link in our bio!

The Black & White Ball Silent Auction is officially OPEN!

Browse and bid on an incredible lineup of auction items from local businesses, including wellness packages, dining experiences, shopping, entertainment, and more, all while supporting DJD!

Can't make it to the Ball? You can still participate in the auction and support DJD from wherever you are.

🔗 Bid now: https://can.givergy.com/campaign-9aapv8of/?controller=home

⏰ The silent auction closes Monday, June 8 at 8:00 PM, so be sure to get your bids in before it's too late.

And if you haven't secured your ticket for The Black & White Ball yet, there's still time to join us tomorrow for an unforgettable evening of live performances, dancing, fundraising, and celebration!

🎟 Get your tickets: https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/experience/events/the-black-white-ball/

Every bid, ticket, and donation helps support DJD's artists, programs, and future seasons.

We can't wait to celebrate with you!

Curious about the relationship between costume and movement?

Join Generative Fabrics – Textile and Movement Workshop, a free workshop led by one of DJD's current Creative Residency Artist Natalia Martineau, exploring how textiles can become generative tools for movement creation. Through discussion, improvisation, and sensory exploration, participants will investigate the connections between costume, sensation, imagination, and transformation.

Read the full workshop description below and reserve your spot—capacity is limited to 12 participants. This workshop is FREE!

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsCiH_YapsgoCYA5C7glZybktwC0RU1y0jatdyFiDlgimOag/viewform

Using textiles to ignite new sensory pathways in the body, this free workshop will explore the relationship between costume and dance; questioning how garments can act as generative tools for movement creation. Engaging in a series of improvisational prompts and explorations, we’ll work on deeply tuning to our felt senses and igniting our imaginations. The workshop will begin with a discussion about becoming and transformation, and participants will be invited to build their own sensory garments. Through improvisation we will explore how costume and sensation can interact to create feelings of tension, compression, and release in the body, that through our imaginations might allow for new understandings of self to emerge.

This workshop is open to pre-professional and professional dancers, as well as movement practitioners of any form.

Free • Maximum 12 participants

Stay tune for more info on Natalia's Work-in-Progress Showing of 'slug' on June 12th!

Photo credit: Josh Stasik Prince

This week’s walk features DJD Artist in Residence Randy Plain Eagle, whose work bridges movement, storytelling, and lived experience. Randy brings his unique artistic voice to the 12th Ave with an improvisation to Electric Pow Wow Drum by A Tribe Called Red.

Randy’s current work, SUGAR, premieres tonight and tomorrow night as part of the IGNITE! Festival. Created during DJD’s Artistic Residency, this interdisciplinary solo performance explores addiction, survival, recovery, and the ongoing impacts of trauma through Indigenous storytelling, theatre, and movement. At its core, SUGAR is about survival and the process of finding a way forward.

Stay tuned as we continue sharing more about Randy’s time in our Artist in Residence Program in the coming weeks.

✨ Improvisation by: Randy Plain Eagle
🎥 Filmed & edited by: Maddy Faunt
🎶 Tune: Electric Pow Wow Drum – A Tribe Called Red
📍 Location: 12 Avenue SE, outside DJD Dance Centre
🎨 Artistic Direction: Kimberley Cooper

SUGAR
June 3 & 4 | 8:15 PM
Part of the IGNITE! Festival
🎟️ Tickets available through the link: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?calendar=sts

Jazz Walk #39 Randy Plain Eagle This week’s walk features DJD Artist in Residence Randy Plain Eagle...

An inside look at the work of our current Artist in Residence, Rosanna Terracciano.

We caught up with Rosanna to talk about Flamenco at the DJD Dance Centre, an intimate evening of flamenco dance, guitar, piano, song, and improvisation created alongside Claire Marchand and Jane Ogilvie. We also chatted about her time in residence at DJD, the creative process behind the work, and the collaborations that have shaped this project.

Following a sold-out 2025 tour, the artists reunite with special guests Francisco Orozco “Yiyi” and Peter Mole to bring this powerful performance back to the stage.

Catch Flamenco at the DJD Dance Centre on May 28 & 29 at the DJD Dance Centre.

Tickets can be found here: https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/experience/events/flamenco-at-the-djd-dance-centre-2/

Artist in Residence Spotlight: Rosanna Terracciano An inside look at the work of our current Artist in Residence, Rosanna Terracciano.We caught up with Rosanna to talk about Flamenco at the DJD Dance Centre, ...

Join us on May 29 for a special afternoon with Creative Residency artists Amber Downie-Back and Angus Steele-Gaffney.

From 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM, community members are invited to a casual Open Studio exploring the outcomes of their residency research through projection/video, written reflections, conversation, and selections of performance and installation material developed throughout the month. Drop in, ask questions, and engage with the artists’ process. Free to attend.

Following the open studio, Amber Downie-Back (they/she), alongside live sound collaborator Angus Steele-Gaffney, will lead Immediate Ecosystems — an exercise in place, memory and movement from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.

Through gentle movement exploration and creative collaboration, participants are invited to reflect on how memories live within our bodies, objects, places, sounds, and images while exploring themes of nostalgia, past selves, and imagined futures.

Participants are encouraged to bring:
• A memory object
• A note-taking device
• Water bottle
• Comfortable clothes and comfort items

Workshop admission is $20 or PWYC. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Cash and card accepted at the door.

Participants may engage as much or as little as they’d like, and all activities can be adapted to individual comfort levels and needs. Please note a participation form will be signed upon arrival.

Register here: https://forms.gle/VQ5hmaFNEWGU7yRbA