The auditions for the fourth cohort of Alternate Route students will take place in November.
In order to participate in the auditions, it is necessary to have attended an introductory workshop in dance therapy. For those who have not had the opportunity to attend one before the auditions, one will be offered the same morning.
The training will take place over three intensive three-week sessions, in July 2022, July 2023 and July 2024. Each session will be hosted at Les Grands Ballets, in Montreal. In-person participation is required for all students.
It is important to note that completing the Alternate Route program does not immediately result in certification. For more details about the training, please visit our page dedicated to the Alternate Route and read carefully the ADTA R-DMT Handbook.
Admission requirements for the Alternate Route are as follows:
Through various improvisation sessions, the auditions aim to evaluate the following:
No preparation is required.
The introductory workshop is compulsory to participate in the audition, unless you can demonstrate that you have previously partaken in at least one dance/movement therapy workshop, taught by a certified dance-therapist (BC-DMT). This also applies to the virtual audition.
Anyone can participate in the workshop only, but priority will be given to audition candidates. After attending the workshop, you may register for the audition, pending space available. In order to participate to the audition only, you much demonstrate that you have previously attended at least one dance/movement therapy workshop lead by a certified dance/movement therapist.
A maximum of 30 people will be admitted to each workshop and a maximum of 25 students will be accepted for the Alternate Route program, following the auditions.
This workshop is intended for all those who are interested in the integration of dance and movement as complements to traditional medical services. It aims to explore movement and nonverbal expression as means of communication and their impact on emotional experiences.
This year, it will be possible to audition in person at Les Grands Ballets, or virtually via Zoom.
November 20 and 21, 2021, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The schedule is the same for both days.
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Introductory workshop in dance/movement therapy
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. : Break
1:30 – 4 p.m.: Audition
Candidates will be divided into groups on the morning of the audition.
Address: Les STUDIOS, Édifice Wilder: Espace Danse (1435 De Bleury Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2H7), 4th floor.
November 27, 2021, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Participants will be invited to connect to the audition via Zoom. The exact schedule for the day will be confirmed once registration is closed.
Registrations are now closed. The next auditions will take place in Fall 2024.
In compliance with the latest government measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 and for the health and safety of our dance community, the National Centre for Dance Therapy will require proof of vaccination for all who wish to attend the workshop or in-person audition.
In-Person Audition
Virtual Audition
Taxes not included
To register for the audition, you need to:
If you wish to attend the introductory workshop in dance therapy without participating in the audition, you only need to pay the registration fee.
Rebecca Barnstaple is a post-doctoral fellow and course director for Dance Studies at York University in Toronto. A graduate of the National Centre for Dance Therapy at Les Grands Ballets (NCDT 2015), she provides dance-therapy based programs for people with chronic pain and Parkinson's disease through Chigamik Community Health Centre in Ontario via hybrid and virtual methods. She is also a core instructor for IMPROVment, an organisation providing movement-based interventions for brain and body health at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem (North Carolina, USA), and now also online! Rebecca is a member of the steering committee of Dance Movement Therapy Ontario, the Research and Practice committee of the American Dance Therapy association, and the Groupe d'intérêt scientifique of the NCDT.
Isabelle Gagnon is a psychologist who graduated from UQAM and specializes in the psychology of the development of the parent-child attachment relationship. She is a clinical psychologist who has been working with children, teenagers and families since 2000. She has also been a lecturer at UQAM since 2010 and works as an internship supervisor. She has adopted an integrated theoretical approach, combining cognitive-behavioural therapy with complementary tools such as game therapy, mindfulness and dance therapy. She distinguishes herself by her warm, concrete and interactive approach, with a focus on the establishment of a strong trust relationship, to allow the child to own their therapeutic space, while integrating the parents as a support to the therapeutic work. In the past years, she has trained and collaborated with the NCDT to develop her knowledge and tools for the therapeutic integration of movement as a complement to psychotherapy for children, as a treatment to multiple mental health issues.
Tania Lazuk worked as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in Ukraine for more than 10 years prior to coming to Canada. She has a PhD in Psychiatry and has completed the Alternate Route training in Dance/Movement Therapy offered by the NCDT. She was Scholar-in-Residence in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies at Concordia University from 2019 to 2021. In 2012, Tania began teaching with Parkinson en mouvement, a non-profit organisation which offers dance and singing classes for people living with Parkinson’s Disease, and she was the first to co-teach the “Dancing Parkinson” classes at the NCDT. Together with her Parkinson en mouvement colleagues, she developed a special training program for those who are interested in teaching adapted dance classes for people leaving with PD.
Tania is one of the founding members of the Dance Movement Therapy Association in Canada and board member of The Quebec Alliance of Creative Arts Therapists.
Zuzana Ševčíková is a board certified dance/movement therapist and drama therapist who holds degrees in physiotherapy and contemporary dance from the Czech Republic, her country of origin, and a Master's degree in drama therapy from Concordia University, Montreal. Zuzana also graduated from the Developmental Transformations Institute, Montreal, and is one of the first graduates of the dance therapy Alternate Route training program at the 92Y Harkness Dance Centre, New York City.
She is a co-founding member and a past President of Dance/Movement Therapy Association of Canada and a co-founding member and a board member of the Quebec Alliance of Creative Arts Therapists.
She works in elementary schools of the Lester B. Pearson school board in Montreal and works with people with Parkinson’s disease at Parkinson en movement.
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