Photo: Lula-Belle Jedynak
Cover Photo: Richie Lubaton
Class Description:
This class is centered on passing energy through the floor, accessing the horizontal axis, and the generation of power through complex spirals.
Isak has based his teaching methodologies on the fundamentals of Shotokan Karate-Do, Breaking, Graham, Horton, snowboarding, and various contemporary techniques to discover points of stability to create from.
Isak Enquist is a movement artist, choreographer, teacher, and experimental sound designer living on Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, Skwxwú7mesh, and xʷməθkwəy̓əm nations.Raised in the Kootenays/Ktunaxa of Canada, he began formal training in Shotokan Karate-Do before pursuing post-secondary dance education at Simon Fraser University and Modus Operandi (Vancouver).
He has performed nationally and internationally with Canadian performing companies such as: Out Innerspace Dance Theatre, Compagnie Vision Impure, Shay Kuebler Radical System Art, Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien, Amber Funk Barton, Mascall Dance, LittleRoomProductions, Cristina Bucci, Generous Mess, Anne Plamondon Productions, and Corporeal Imago.
Isak is on faculty with Vancouver’s Harbour Dance Centre, Lamon Dance Company and a guest teacher with Training Society of Vancouver, The Goh Ballet Academy, and GöteborgsOperan Danskompani (Sweden).