This class will serve as a warm up for a dancing day with an emphasis on functional movement
through and with the skeleton, the folding and rounding of joints and careful attention to vectors
of directional energy. We will start with a warm up meant to help us move from horizontal to
vertical organization as well as through space with attention to principles of shifting weight and
support from the body’s architecture. We will learn patterns for moving “across the floor”,
jumping, turning and some mid size dance phrases. We will also explore some strategies and
tasks meant to increase our improvisational vocabulary and awareness while improvising. Max’
dance class is inspired by flying low, countertechnique, contact improvisation, ballet and a wide
variety of somatic and improvisational practices. Values will be efficiency, ease, swing,
momentum, pleasure and curiosity. This class is geared towards intermediate and advanced
movers but Max will always try his best to accommodate a wide variety of needs and prides
himself on being able to adjust to the room.

Max Hanic is a queer Amiskwaciwâskahikan raised actor, dancer, singer and instructor
who graduated with distinction from the University of Alberta Fine Arts Acting program and
studied contemporary dance at La Faktoria Choreographic Centre in Pamplona, Spain for the
2021/2022 period after being awarded grants from the Edmonton Arts Council and the Canadian
Council for the Arts. Max has been given training scholarships by EDAM (Vancouver), The
Good Women Dance Collective (Edmonton) and Circuit-Est (Montréal) as well as trained at Tic
Tac Art Centre (Brussels), Espacio Tiempo (Madrid) and at the One Body One Career
Countertechnique intensive in Amsterdam. He has performed with the Edmonton Opera, Firefly
Theatre and Circus, Amoris Projects, Catch the Keys Productions and in his own
choreographies; as well as worked with Molly Mcdermott, Francesca Frewer, Lin Snelling,
Alexis Fletcher, Minggao Zhang, Susanna Hood, Jennifer Mcleish-Lewis and more. He is
currently pursuing more dance training in Vancouver with Modus Operandi and working on a
solo piece to be premiered at Mile Zero Dance in the fall of 2025.