MARCH! 2025
Join us for a 5-week series of drop-in training and registered workshops led by members of the Vancouver stilt community: stilters of all levels welcome. Learning to walk on stilts (and then to dance on stilts) is an exciting and fun way to exercise, play, and perform as well as challenge one’s own fears, to overcome and succeed!
Want to try stilting for the first time? Contact us to arrange a coach and/or pair of stilts for a date of your choosing. FYI an extra fee may be asked depending on the teacher & coaching time requested. Space is limited.
Want to try stilting for the first time? Contact us to arrange a coach and/or pair of stilts for a date of your choosing. FYI an extra fee may be asked depending on the teacher & coaching time requested. Space is limited.
Want your own pair of wooden stilts? Amira is gathering commitments to build a batch of 10 pairs.
Contact for more info: [email protected]
Ready for some next-level training in stilt movement? Register for a workshop March 16 and/or March 30.
March 2: 10:30 - 12:30 Drop-in $10 or PWYC
March 9: 12:30 - 2:30 Drop-in $10 or PWYC
March 16: 12:30 - 2:30 Workshop with Ariel Amara
Stilting Beyond the Pedestrian
- Registration required $40
Through exploring body awareness and adaptive movement on stilts, we will test the boundaries of our range. We will play with a variety of ways to engage in contact and balance with ourselves, each other and our environment, unlocking more comfort and freedom of expression in our stilt practice.
March 23: 12:30 - 2:30 Drop-in $10 or PWYC,
12:30 - 1:30 "Flocking" Development with Amira
- Registration NOT required - Drop-in fee
About the Workshop:
Flocking is an exercise in group improvisation, a form of "follow the leader" and a fascinating sight, especially when the dancers are giants. As a group we will explore.
March 30: 12:30 - 2:30 Stilt Dance with Isabelle Kirouac
- Arrive at 12:15
- Registration Required - $40
Learn and play with improvisation, partnering techniques, and acrobatics! In this class, we will explore and deepen the art and technique of stilt dancing, integrating stilts inversions, fluid choreographic sequences, improvisation and partnering work inspired by Contact Improvisation, contemporary release technique and somatics. All exercises will be taught with an emphasis on safety, body awareness and proper alignment. This is a unique opportunity to further your practice, challenge yourself and explore new possibilities.
This class is for people already comfortable walking in stilts.
Contact info:
Amira Emma Routledge: [email protected]
Location:
KW Atrium Studio:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/iTLypNU6u6CKdfJT8
111 Hastings St.
Enter the Woodwards Atrium from Hastings St and immediately on the right you’ll see the door to KW studios.
* Photo taken at Evergreen Cultural Spaces at the 2nd National Stilt Symposium hosted by Three Left Feet in Calgary AB
~ Courage is resistance, mastery, but not the absence of fear ~
Contact for more info: [email protected]
Ready for some next-level training in stilt movement? Register for a workshop March 16 and/or March 30.
March 2: 10:30 - 12:30 Drop-in $10 or PWYC
March 9: 12:30 - 2:30 Drop-in $10 or PWYC
March 16: 12:30 - 2:30 Workshop with Ariel Amara
Stilting Beyond the Pedestrian
- Registration required $40
Through exploring body awareness and adaptive movement on stilts, we will test the boundaries of our range. We will play with a variety of ways to engage in contact and balance with ourselves, each other and our environment, unlocking more comfort and freedom of expression in our stilt practice.
March 23: 12:30 - 2:30 Drop-in $10 or PWYC,
12:30 - 1:30 "Flocking" Development with Amira
- Registration NOT required - Drop-in fee
About the Workshop:
Flocking is an exercise in group improvisation, a form of "follow the leader" and a fascinating sight, especially when the dancers are giants. As a group we will explore.
March 30: 12:30 - 2:30 Stilt Dance with Isabelle Kirouac
- Arrive at 12:15
- Registration Required - $40
Learn and play with improvisation, partnering techniques, and acrobatics! In this class, we will explore and deepen the art and technique of stilt dancing, integrating stilts inversions, fluid choreographic sequences, improvisation and partnering work inspired by Contact Improvisation, contemporary release technique and somatics. All exercises will be taught with an emphasis on safety, body awareness and proper alignment. This is a unique opportunity to further your practice, challenge yourself and explore new possibilities.
This class is for people already comfortable walking in stilts.
Contact info:
Amira Emma Routledge: [email protected]
Location:
KW Atrium Studio:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/iTLypNU6u6CKdfJT8
111 Hastings St.
Enter the Woodwards Atrium from Hastings St and immediately on the right you’ll see the door to KW studios.
* Photo taken at Evergreen Cultural Spaces at the 2nd National Stilt Symposium hosted by Three Left Feet in Calgary AB
~ Courage is resistance, mastery, but not the absence of fear ~
