Join Audra in an exploration of choreography at 6 day retreat at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, in the heart of the beautiful Rocky Mountains.

Open to all levels and styles of belly dancers regardless of your (in)experience with creating choreography, this retreat provides dancers with the skills required to create informed choreography using three approaches.

1) Learn
The morning sessions will focus on learning an original Lavish choreography by Audra. With this approach, you'll gain insight into how movement combinations are put together, how they both flow with and work separately from the music, and how movement combinations can be manipulated to provide variation within a dance work.

2) Explore
You'll explore ways to create movement that has meaning or intention in guided group sessions as we generate content, and work with choreographic structure.

We'll work, discuss, work again, and discuss more.


3) Create
The evening sessions will be dedicated to working independently to create personal movement phrases and/or choreography creation, with guidance and feedback from Audra.

All interested dancers will have the opportunity to showcase their movement phrases and/or choreography at the in-studio presentation on the final day of the retreat.



Daily Schedule – specific hours may change
Sunday, January 26, 2020 – arrival at leisure and free evening.

Monday, January 27 through Friday, January 31, 2019
7:00 – 9:30 am Breakfast in Vistas Restaurant
10 am to Noon – Learn – group class with Audra
Noon to 1:00 pm – Lunch and free time in Vistas Restaurant
1:00 to 4:00 pm – Explore – group class/lab with Audra
4:00to 6:30 pm – Dinner and free time in Vistas Restaurant
6:30 to 9:30 pm – Create – independent study and creation time, with one on one check ins with Audra

Saturday, February 1, 2019
7:00 – 9:30 am – Breakfast in Vistas Restaurant
Noon to 5:00 pm – Group class putting on finishing touches and final presentation (presentation is not required)
5:30-7:30 pm – Dinner in Vistas Restaurant and celebration

Sunday, February 2, 2019
Depart from Banff Centre.