Cover Photo: Jeremy Mimnagh
Photo: Yvonne Chew
Class Description:
I teach what you could call a contemporary technique centre class. The class is a synthesis of all of the ideas that currently fascinate me. Usually my class will start gently on the floor and build in verticality and intensity. At times we dance quite specifically to the music, and sometimes dancers will find their own phrasing.
Lately I have been working with some training ideas that have been shared with me by Lindsay Harpham, who is an amazing dancer/Kinesiologist. I will be incorporating her stability/proprioception sequence and plyometrics training into this class.
No matter what, the soundtrack will be good.
Kate Franklin
I have been teaching movement since I was 17, and I am now 43. I spent the first decade or so of my career in Toronto/Tkaronto. Since 2012 I have lived in Vancouver on the unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. I have worked as a dancer for nearly 50 different companies, creators and directors. Most recently I have spent time working with Company 605, Justine A. Chambers and Tara Cheyenne Performance, amongst others. I enjoy working for choreographers who are my former and current students (and therefore my teachers), Jamie Robinson, Oh Augustine, Avery Smith and Satya Mari.
I have been Associate Artistic Director of Modus Operandi for the past 8 seasons. I create my own choreographic work from time to time. I teach because I am always learning. I train almost every day in some form of movement practice, often at Madlab School of Fitness, where I have been a member for 6.5 years. Teaching at Working Class is wonderful for me, because I can be in dialogue with my peers about the stuff I am learning.