Simcoe Contemporary Dancers

✨Culture Days Open Contemporary Dance Class✨

Community members are invited to join Simcoe Contemporary Dancers at the MacLaren Art Centre to participate and/or observe an open contemporary dance class. Come experience what SCD’s weekly company classes are all about!

This is a free event open to all ages & levels! Come for the full class, or drop-in any time for a visit.

When: Sunday, September 27th, 2026 from 11:00am - 12:30pm

Where: MacLaren Art Centre in the Carnegie Room
37 Mulcaster St, Barrie, ON L4M 3M2

SCD is proud to present My Moves Choreographic Workshop Series, an opportunity to regional dance artists (18+) looking to explore and deepen their choreographic knowledge.

Through facilitators Jaqui Brown, Sarah Lochhead, Aliyah Beckles, and Kassandra Chiaromonte, participants will explore different choreographic topics to help enhance their creative process. 

Laid out over four 6-hour sessions, participants are invited to play in a supportive and collaborative environment.

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Sessions will take place on the following Saturdays from 10:00 AM – 4:45 PM at Studio Five, 40 Bell Farm Rd Unit 4, Barrie, ON, Canada, Ontario

October 17 & 24, 2026
November 7 & 14, 2026

All sessions will begin with a contemporary technique class and proceed into an exploration session of a different choreographic topic each week. At the end of each day there will be time to share and receive feedback from facilitators and fellow participants. 

All participants will also have a chance to present a work-in-progress developed in these sessions at a later date in SCD’s 2026/2027 season.

Investment: $226 (inclusive of tax) for all 4 sessions
Please don’t let cost affect your ability to participate. Send us an email and we would be happy to discuss options!
This program is funded through The City of Barrie.
Limited spots available, please use the link in our bio to register!

Topics Of Exploration:
WEEK 1 – Jaqui (October 17th)
    •    Starting points for generating movement 
    •    Exploring improvisation prompts and tasks
    •    Contact Work - exploring relationships and the mechanics of sharing weight / lifts

WEEK 2 – Kas (October 24th)
    •    Seen and Heard - exploring accompaniment choices
    •    Journaling

WEEK 3 – Sarah (November 7th)
    •    “World Building” - looking at outside resources for inspiration
    •    Playing in Space - Levels, Effort, Shape, Space

WEEK 4 – Aliyah (November 14th)
    •    Pulling Apart - retrograde, accumulation, canon, and repetition
    •    Structure and transitions

First week back called for a little dance party 💖💖 Thanks Aliyah B for a great Sunday company class!

Join Simcoe Contemporary Dancers for our Fall 2026 open contemporary classes!
All classes run from 10:30 AM to 12 PM
$20/class (inclusive of HST)

Sunday September 20th The Official Dance Project

Sunday September 27th MacLaren Art Centre from 11:00am - 12:30pm *Free Event Day!*

Sunday October 4th, 18th, 25th The Official Dance Project

Sunday November 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th The Official Dance Project

Sunday December 6th The Official Dance Project

Sunday December 13th StudioFive

Thankful to dance with all of you 🩶

Views from dress rehearsal for the Barrie Theatre Festival 🌀

Threaded together through spoken word and physical connection, our show, How Do You Live? explores the powerful forces that shape our lives from grief to joy, through individual and group movements.

This show is rooted in the belief that storytelling through dance is a way for us all to connect and heal through life’s changing tides if we can find the willingness to be seen.

Don’t miss SCD at the Five Points Theatre June 9-13 at 5 PM!

We are so thankful to get the opportunity to bring “How Do You Live?” to life at the Five Points Theatre as part of the Barrie Theatre Festival presented by 🩶

Featuring deeply personal choreographies, our dancers vulnerably share their truth. This is a show you won’t want to miss!

When our lives change, we sometimes ask the universe how do I live? We wrestle with this question, alone, until we are ready to open ourselves up to community support. We then ask, how do you live?

A simple yet loaded question. Our individual life experiences can dictate how we respond to this question and even dictate if we are willing to ask it out loud in the presence of others.

The changes in our lives can invoke a range of emotions. Finding a way to live in a new reality and charting the unknown may bring feelings of unease. But how do you live through it? Threaded together through spoken word and physical connection, How Do You Live? explores the powerful forces that shape our lives from grief to joy, through individual and group movements.

This show is rooted in the belief that storytelling through dance is a way for us all to connect and heal through life’s changing tides if we can find the willingness to be seen.

Tickets on sale now!

We are thrilled to share this year’s Celebration of Dance participants!

Coming up on May 19 at 6:30 at Georgian Theatre, Celebration of Dance is a special fundraising event bringing together dancers from across Simcoe County to share the stage and create a one of a kind program of different dance styles raising funds for a local charity.

This year’s event will be supporting and we hope you will join us to raise funds for this important cause! Tickets on sale now - link in bio!

We also want to gratefully acknowledge our sponsors and funders who are helping make this event possible! ❤️