Contemporary
Profitraining with Gavin Law
This training draws from a blend of contemporary and urban dance techniques. Throughout the class, we use a variety of exercises to warm up and integrate the body and mind. We begin with guided improvisation, conditioning, and partner and self-bodywork to awaken awareness and proprioception while building strength, balance, and flexibility. In the second part of the class, we refine our technique through exercises and across-the-floor sequences that gradually increase in complexity. These sequences are designed to be accessible to all spatial levels, starting with basic floorwork, locomotion, and soft acrobatics, and progressing toward more challenging standing material, including grooves, footwork, turns, and jumps. To conclude, we learn a phrase of set material that emphasizes the integration of technique with musicality, dynamic shifts, spatial awareness, and moving together as a group.
Gavin Law
Gavin Law is a freelance dancer, choreographer, and teacher currently based in Berlin. Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, he earned his bachelor’s degree in dance and Kinesiology from York University in 2015. Alongside his academic training, he was deeply engaged in the urban dance scene, training and performing with several hip-hop crews. From 2017 to 2020, Gavin served as Co-Artistic Director of Nostos Collectives, a contemporary dance company based in Toronto and Halifax, Canada. He continued his studies at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) and has since worked with AURA Dance Theater in Kaunas, Lithuania, and Landesbühnen Sachsen in Dresden, Germany. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with choreographers and companies including Metamorphosis Dance (Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich), Guy Shomroni (Batsheva), Alessandra La Bella, Chris Jäger, Luana Rossetti, Paul Blackman (Jukstapoz Company), Jan Lauwers (Needcompany), Vittoria de Ferrari Sapetto, Natalie Wagner, Ben J. Riepe, Birute Letukaite, Jack Bannerman, Konstandina Efthimiadou, and Serge Bennathan.