Montreal Steppers

Dance

Specialities: Body percussion, Dance, Storytelling

Contact Info

Email address

info@montrealsteppers.com

Phone Number

514-572-4008

Website address

www.montrealsteppers.com

Where Artist lives

Saint Hubert, Quebec

Resides in

Riverside

Social Media

Experience working with

Cycle 2 Elementary
Cycle 3 Elementary
Secondary 1 & 2
Secondary 3 & 4
Secondary 5
CEGEP

Lifelong Learners

Adult Learners

I regularly explore the following Broad Areas of Learning/Themes in my work

Health and Wellbeing
Citizenship and Community Life (Identity & Belonging)

Listed in the Quebec Culture in the Schools Repertoire

I can facilitate virtual creative experiences

School board areas you are available to work in

Eastern Townships
English Montreal
Lester B Pearson - outside Montreal transportation areas (STM)
Lester B Pearson - within public transit area
New Frontiers - Chateauguay
Riverside

Travel

I am available for travel within the same day
I am available for travel overnight

Other ELAN ArtEd Links

Stories and News:

Stories & News: A Place for Dance in Life & the Classroom

Stepping is the artform of using the body as an instrument to create rhythms, sounds, beats through foot stomps, claps and chants. We use step as a building block in elementary schools and high schools to influence dialogue around the importance of black lives and black history in Canada. Focusing on values of teamwork, discipline, character building, black history and resilience, we allow participants the opportunity to learn step, experience success and use their bodies to tell their own story

Creative Approach and Experiences Offered

A stepping workshop with Montreal Steppers includes an introduction to foundational step routines. Participants will learn how to clap, stomp and chant as a team. They would learn what it meant for black folks to be steppers in the early 1900's and how their resilience changed their lives. We emphasize the importance of creating these rhythms and beats together with a focus on teamwork and character building. Each workshop includes dialogues and discussions on the history of step, its inception, the migration of Africans from Africa to North America, South America and the Caribbean. At the end of the workshop each participant would have learn at least two step routines; rhythmic music that they created with their bodies. This is always a proud moment for participants.