Programs & Workshops
Raino Dance offers a variety of adult dance classes, with each style serving students from beginner to advanced skill level. Scroll down for Full Year Program, Drop in, 8 & 12 Week Programs, Summer Sweats
Fees when paid by monthly installments
As per our Payment Policy, all fees are subject to 5% GST & a 1 time registration fee of $25.
1 class / wk = $84 / month
2 classes / wk = $145 / month
3 classes / wk = $172 / month
4 classes / wk = $195 / month
5 classes / wk = $222 / month
6+ classes / wk = $250 / month
Full-Year Program
REGISTRATION STILL OPEN TO NEW STUDENTS!
Full-Year Program 2024/25
Winter Break Dec 23, 2024 - Jan 6, 2025
Spring Break March 24 - 30, 2025
Year End Show June 21
Our Full Year Program honors the rigour of dance training by offering a 10-month program where our professional instructors, specialized in teaching dance for adults, progressively support students: to gain confidence; to build technique; to build community with a class cohort; and (in the performance classes) to create a unique choreography for our flagship June show. From pure beginner to advanced, the dancer/student will experience an evolution in their dancing, their sense of embodiment and discover a new sense of a community that moves more rather than it talks!
Level 1 — Beginner
Level 2 — Intermediate
Level 3 — Advanced
Open — All welcome
Please email info@rainodance.com to inquire about joining our dance family!
8Week Programs 2025
Beginner Tap Monday’s 8 - 9pm
Jan 27 - Mar 17th, 2025 w/ Amanda Zink
Start your tap journey by learning the fundamental techniques in a playful, percussive class that invites you to be a percussionist & dancer all at once!
Back to Tap inter/adv Thursday’s 8 - 9pm
Sep 26 - Dec 12, 2024 w/ Amanda Zink
Calling all former tappers! Want to get back to tap? Let’s rekindle & build on prior knowledge of the basic rhythms while playing with new skills & techniques. Cross floors, drill technique & mini combos will be our percussive playground!
Beginner SASS - heels class Saturday's 11am- 12pm
Feb 1 - Mar 22, 2025 w/ Sophia Harrington
Get your sexy on in this introductory SASS (heels) dance class. Build technique, flexibility & your own saucy flavour as you explore the dynamic art of dancing to seduce. Although heels are optional, the SASS is a must!
Beginner Hiphop Saturday's 12 - 1pm
Feb 1 - Mar 22, 2025 w/ Sophia Harrington
Learn the basic movements of hip hop through grooving. With lots of repetition you will feel more comfortable with your body and the movements as you connect to the music and get your sweat on! Students can expect to get all the wild, sexy, pumped up moves of the Hip Hop world in a way that focuses on two things: having fun and getting sweaty!
Beginner Ballet Saturday's 1 - 2pm
Feb 1 - Mar 22, 2025 w/ Miyouiki Jego
In this introductory series we will be learning the basics and fundamental techniques required to execute the movements in ballet with precision. We will start with a warm up, then barre exercises before moving into the center to further test our ability. This class is for those seeking to learn how to dance ballet in a warm and inviting environment taught by a professional with a playful, wholistic approach.
Beginner Contemporary Sunday’s 12 - 1pm
Jan 26 - Mar 23, 2025 w/ Dyana Sonik-Henderson
Movers are welcomed to explore creative processes of movement, improvisation and choreography creation with a variety of exercises that will get their bodies and brains working. Principles of falling, release, isolation, inversion, floor and center work will encourage body and self-awareness. The class will use "scores", imagery and metaphors for letting the movers find new ways to nurture movement and release unconscious holding patterns.
12Week Program
Cabaret Creations II - Sundays 10am - 12pm
Jan 26 - Apr 27, 2025 (no class Mar 30 & April 6)
After the roaring success of last years inaugural Cabaret Creation’s (watch out Fringe 2025!) we offer Cabaret Creations II - an emergent process where students co-create a Cabaret performance to be produced professionally on May 2 & 3, 2025.
The heart of this class is to express the true spirit of Cabaret whereby the process of creation provides an opportunity to unmask and find the crux of the story your being is longing to share. From here, under the guidance of Monique Salez - creatrix, storyweaver, theatrical director, choreographer - the collective supports the emergence of a shared work that speaks to the breadth & depth of the human experience.
Want to join the cabaret?
Please email monique@rainodance.com with a short letter of interest/intention expressing your performative practice (dance, rap, sing, play an instrument, circus, writer, actor, etc) & why you are interested in joining the cabaret.
Questions can also be directed to monique@rainodance.com
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistable - T.C. Bambara
Investment: $350
Drop In
If you're unsure what class to take, or hesitant to commit for a full year, we recommend trying a drop in. If love the class and decide to fully register for the class please let us know within a week of dropping in and we will credit your drop-in payment toward your first month’s class fees.
All Full Year Program classes listed OPEN are available for drop ins (and registration) all year.
Full Year Program leveled/numbered classes accept drop ins until February or March when they begin to spend more class time preparing the year end show.
Cost: $25 in person or add tax if you pay online.
NO drop-ins w/ SWEATS, 8 or 12 week nor Special Programs
To book a drop in:
1. create an account in our online portal
2. find the drop down menu in the TOP LEFT CORNER & select DROP IN
3. choose your class!
Creating an account ensures all waivers are signed off and you can receive class-specific notifications from the studio.
Summer SWEATS Workshop Series
JULY AND AUGUST 2025
REGISTRATION OPENS April 2025
Are you ready to try a new dance style, stay in dancing shape or improve technique this summer? These 5-day intensives - Monday through Friday evening - are offered every summer, for beginners and experienced dancers alike, with local, national and international teachers. Immerse yourself in a different genre/style of dance each week with one of our incredible teachers. Choose one week or more!
Note: although the portal only shows the classes on Mondays, rest assured each class runs for 5 consecutive days from monday to friday for a total of $150 + tax.
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