Open Company Lab & Audition

Five days of intensive training, choreographic research, and creative exchange with Belle Spirale's founding artistic directors — at The Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver.

November 30 – December 4, 2026

The Dance Centre, Vancouver

REGISTER HERE

Capacity for the afternoon workshop is strictly limited to ensure direct feedback and an intimate working environment.

🌀 EARLY BIRD FULL WEEK — SAVE $50

$300 ~ Register before October 30th, 2026. All five days: morning class + afternoon lab.

🌀 REGULAR FULL WEEK

$350 ~ All five days: morning class + afternoon lab.

🌀 DROP IN FULL DAY

$95/day ~ Class + afternoon lab. By request only — write to us first so we can make sure the lab is the right fit for where you are in your practice.

🌀 DROP IN MORNING CLASS

$22/class ~ Contemporary ballet class only. Drop in any day, subject to space.

Accessibility

We hold a small number of subsidized spots for dancers with financial barriers. If cost is a concern, please reach out to us directly at artistic@bellespirale.ca or DM us @bellespirale — we want the Lab to be open to all the right artists. Please don’t hesitate to reach out.

ABOUT THE LAB

Over five days, you will enter the active creative world of Belle Spirale — learning company repertoire, working directly with text-based and task-driven choreographic processes, and researching the ideas and movement language that will become part of Alexis's next creation.

You will leave with new physical material in your body, a deeper understanding of how our choreography is built from the inside, and a genuine working relationship with the company. The Lab is designed for the pre-professional 18 years and up or professional dancer who wants to grow as an artist, not just as a technician.

🌀 10 - 11:30 ~ Contemporary Ballet Class

Alexis shares her personal training practice — a contemporary ballet approach rooted in specificity of weight, breath, and dynamic range. A class in how she prepares her body to make and perform work.

DAILY SCHEDULE

🌀 12 - 3 ~ Choreographic Workshop & Company Repertoire Lab

Each afternoon moves between learning existing Belle Spirale repertoire and diving into Alexis's active creative process — working with text, task-based scores, and new phrase material that will feed directly into her next work. You are not observing a creative process; you are inside it.

OUR AUDITION PHILOSOPHY

Who we make work with matters as much as what we make. The standard cattle-call audition doesn't give artists the space to show who they really are, and it doesn't give us what we actually need to know. Instead, an audition for upcoming Belle Spirale projects is built organically into the fabric of the week. Dancers joining us for the full five days are investing in their own training and development. Getting to know each other honestly and over time, is how we work best.

YOUR HOST

Alexis Fletcher

CO-FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR WITH SYLVAIN SENEZ

BELLE SPIRALE DANCE PROJECTS

After 14 years as a dancer with Ballet BC, Alexis has worked as a guest artist, Artist in Residence, and is currently guest rehearsal director with the company, while building an expansive career as a choreographer and producer. Her work has been commissioned by Ballet Kelowna (with Sylvain Senez), Ballet BC Annex, and re:Naissance Opera (Censored Opera Festival 2026, Helsinki), and performed internationally.

She is the co-founder, with Sylvain Senez, of Belle Spirale Dance Projects — recipient of the Chrystal Dance Prize (2023/24, 2025/26), the inaugural HYPE Grant (2025), and nominated for Best Dance Company in the 2025 Best of Vancouver Awards.