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Magpie Festival Class: Richard Lee | Movement Lab — Selective Tension

Wednesday, July 22, 2026
11:30am to 1:00pm

Part of: The Magpie Collection: A Dance Festival

Sugar Swing Ballroom
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Organized by: Mile Zero Dance
July
22

An open level contemporary dance class. Using task-based improvisation in solo, partner, and group settings, we will explore weight transfer, strength work, resisting and giving into gravity.

Richard has danced across Canada in works by Gerry Morita, Alida Kendall, Ainsley Hillyard, Troy Emery Twigg, Mélanie Demers, Mélanie Kloetzel, and Amber Borotsik, among others. His own works have been presented by Mile Zero Dance, Good Women Dance Collective, New Dance Horizons, Springboard Performance, and CanAsian Dance.

Sugar Swing Ballroom

10019 80 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB, T6E 1T4


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