Valerie Sabbah
Dance
Specialities: Dance, Improvisation
Contact Info
Email address
Phone Number
Resides in
English Montreal
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Experience working with
Student In
- 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
- No
I have experience working with
- ArtsSmarts
I can facilitate virtual creative experiences
- Yes
Travel
- I am available for travel within the same day
- I am available for travel overnight
- An extended residency is an option
Choreographer, dance artist, curator, teacher, and dance therapist, I have over 25 years of dance experience with students from Pre-K to University. My work emphasizes personal storytelling through movement, using contemporary dance, contact-improvisation, and somatic-based approaches. I guide students through an artistic process where they discover their unique dance style. I focus on solo processes that emphasize peer collaboration, working towards creating an original collective dance work.
Creative Approach and Experiences Offered
"Moving Worlds" is an experience where students create dance-theatre pieces that resonate with their personal narratives and collective experiences. Believing every student can be an artist, I share my creative process, encouraging them to become architects of their own moving worlds. Emphasizing personal storytelling, I guide students to use their experiences as foundations for their dance-theatre pieces, creating original works that are highly meaningful to them. Through dance improvisation, contemporary dance, and somatic-based approaches, students discover their personal dance style, exploring physicality and emotions. Starting with solo processes, students develop and explore their singular movement style. We then create an ensemble work under a collective thematic, highlighting the diverse narratives. The workshop culminates in a public or class cohort performance. The workshop is designed to inspire students to see dance as a powerful medium for personal storytelling.Video
Blossom - Efflorescence : An improvised movement dance video