SIBF WORKSHOPS with the Stars!

Location: Free Flow Dance Centre 224 25th St. W.

Please note registration is required. Fees are payable in advance via etransfer to freeflowdance@gmail.com

WORKSHOPS

Beginner MC with Rebecca Mm Davis Saturday Sept 30 12-1:15 pm

GODDEXX UNLEASED Building Stage Confidence with Ms. B LaRose Sunday Oct 1 12-1:15 pm

Social Media and building your brand with Tristan Ginger Sunday Oct 1 1:30-2:45 pm

Workshop Descriptions

Beginner MC with Rebecca Mm Davis Saturday Sept 30 12-1:15 pm

Theydies and Gentlethem! Making the Stage Your Home” with Rebecca Mmm Davis

Get ready to Rumble without Fumbling: Coaching and development for Beginning Emcees.

Your job as an Emcee/Host is to be a Cheerleader, Health and Safety Monitor, Traffic cop, Referee, and Distraction. Add to that lovingly introducing a dancing human who has spent hours and hours perfecting their act and creating their costume! How does an MC 1) Keep the audience engaged 2) Set the performer up for success?

This class aims to help Beginning Emcees explore: 

  • Owning the stage and THE RULES for A GOOD TIME
  • Persona for the evening (Watcher vs participant)
  • Techniques of introductions (RESEARCH and PLANNING) 
  • Outro-ductions 
  • Show timing/ Running gags
  • Stage Kittens/Panthers
  • How to be tactful with producers

GODDEXX UNLEASED Building Stage Confidence with Ms. B LaRose Sunday Oct 1 12-1:15 pm

“I never felt so comfortable being myself until I had seen you dance” is one of the most

compelling compliments to receive off stage. Help unleash your prowess, build self

confidence, and emote to connect with the audience. In this class, you will be led through a

discussion, dance warm-up to get into the body, walking the floor, staging routines, and

capturing moments of stillness, movement, and eye contact to support the character you

are emoting to extend your energy out beyond the stage. By the end of class, whether you

perform on stages big or small, this class will have audiences at your full attention. You’re

invited to come play regardless of gender, age, or dance experience. This class is sensual.

Bring heels and an open mind.

Social Media and building your brand with Tristan Ginger Sunday Oct 1 1:30-2:45 pm

Let Tristan Ginger take you through the trials & tribulations of social media!

From building up your brand, to how you share yourself on social media,, we can also work on how to grow your performer persona! Tristan will talking everything social media, beginning with the importance of branding, then onto hashtags, Instagram, TikTok, banking content, the best apps for editing, and many more tips along the way.

Ok, you do burlesque, but what makes you unique? What kind of shows do you want to get booked for? What kind of shows do you NOT want to get booked for. If people come to see you live, what can they expect from you? Your social media is also part of your tool kit as a performer! Let’s use it to it’s full potential!

At the end of the workshop there will be time to ask some questions about your brand/ social media! Start thinking of those questions now!

Tristan Ginger, the Cult Leader of Burlesque has built up a wicked reputation for blending steamy erotica with artistic expression, and is Montréal’s Supreme of Queerlesque. A self-identified Gender-Maximalist bringing ALL the drama to feed your soul. You can catch them performing on stages around the world and on Season 3 of Drag Heals! From Berlin to New York! A little bit of ginger is good for your health!