May 8/10/12: Isak Enquist
Photos by Richie Lubaton
Class Description: This class is centred around 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, snowboarding, Graham, Horton and various contemporary techniques.
Isak Enquist is a dance artist, teacher, choreographer and experimental musician/sound designer living on occupied traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, Skwxwú7mesh, and xʷməθkwəy̓əm nations. Raised in the Kootenays/Ktunaxa of Canada, Isak began formal training in Shotokan Karate-Do before pursuing post-secondary dance education at Simon Fraser University and Modus Operandi (Vancouver), as well as training intensives with The Ailey School (Italy/New York) and Springboard Danse Montréal. He has had the pleasure of working professionally with Out Innerspace Dance Theatre, Compagnie Vision Impure, Dance Victoria, Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien, Amber Funk Barton (the response.), CAMP, Mascall Dance, Generous Mess, Radical System Art, Corporeal Imago and Anne Plamondon Productions (Montréal). Touring with these companies have included performances across Canada, USA, Europe and Israel.