UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Sign up to attend a free MO audition in Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver, including contemporary dance, improvisation, and repertoire. Auditions will be led by Tiffany Tregarthen or David Raymond, Artistic Directors of Out Innerspace and Modus Operandi, and are for serious dancers ages 17 and up.

    We strongly encourage dancers who are serious about applying to the Modus Operandi 2026/27 Season consider attending multiple workshops or intensives, as an introduction to the program environment, methods, and expectations while building a relationship with the directors. MO welcomes auditions from serious, advanced dancers between the ages of 17 and 25 who are passionate about continuing their dance education through a rigorous post secondary training program. Each year, approximately seven to ten new dancers are invited to enrolled in MO.

    Spring and Summer Intensives

    The MO Spring & Summer Intensives attract aspiring and emerging professionals ages 16 – 30 from across Canada and abroad. MO Artistic Directors David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen and MO Associate Artistic Directors Kate Franklin and Maiko Miyauchi, offer an inspirational dance experience in which contemporary dance technique, improvisation, movement generation and current company repertoire make for challenging and rewarding exposure to new methods and ideas. Additionally, the directors offer Q&A sessions to answer students questions and share their international performance and choreographic career experience.

    The intensives are ideal ways for dancers to audition for the full MO program, where they can get the best sense of the environment and values of MO. There is no audition to participate in the Spring or Summer Intensive. Participants must be serious experienced dancers who can participate in full-time rigorous dance activity. Registration is first-come-first-served and space is limited. Dancers who wish to enroll in the Spring or Summer Intensive for training, but are not ready to audition, are also welcome to do so. Upon registration you will be prompted to select your intention to audition for the MO full program or not.

    I want to audition for the MO Full Program through one of the Intensives. Which one should I attend?

    Serious applicants are strongly recommended to audition through the Spring Intensive. The MO leadership team will send out the first round of offers following the Spring Intensive relative to how many qualified applicants they identified through the audition. You are welcome to audition through the Summer Intensive, but we can not guarantee how many spots, if any, will be left to offer in the MO Full Program at that time.

    Video Audition

    It is highly recommended that serious applicants audition for the full program by attending the Spring or Summer Intensive in Vancouver, or another audition day. Video Auditions, are intended for International students. However, exceptations can be made for those who cannot audition in person.

    If you have further questions about auditioning, please contact us at modusoperandi@outinnerspace.ca.

Summer Intensive
Jul
28
to Aug 1

Summer Intensive

  • Q7 Studios, 77 East 7th Avenue, Vancouver BC V5T 1M4 (map)
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Join MO artistic faculty and guest artists for the annual MO Summer Intensive. This is a great opportunity for young artists interested in joining MO in future to better get to know the program training style and environment, and a wider opportunity for artists ages 16 – 30 to join together in exceptional contemporary dance training.

$450+GST

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Jun
18
to Jun 19

Focus Group Performance

Starting in January, Focus Group offers programming for students in their final 2 years of MO to further develop their own practice and amplify the practicum to match professional process. Activity is planned in collaboration with the students and designed to support their individual interests and needs. They prioritize their resources, drive their own process, bring their questions together for peer research, facilitate their own works-in-progress showings and feedback, and select their own mentors. This season, our Focus Group students have chosen to show their own choreography and a selection of repertoire to an invited audience.

Focus Group 2025 is Lamont, Emma Galvin, Denae Harpham, Ryan Jackson, Rianna Logan, Rachel Lui, Amélie MacDonald, Satya Mari, Keili Massicotte, Aya Sato, Jessie Sijie Zhang, and Jada Tang.

We will be celebrating our eight graduates, Lamont, Emma Galvin, Denae Harpham, Ryan Jackson, Rachel Lui, Amélie MacDonald, Satya Mari and Jada Tang!

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Jun
12
to Jun 14

MO Year-End Show 2025

MO is proud to present their annual year end show each spring. Join the students of Modus Operandi for the MO Show 2025, the annual end of year performance. They will perform new works by Kate Franklin, Mariko Kakizaki, and Yi-Chun Liu.

When: June 12-14, 7:30 pm & June 13, 12:30 pm
Where: Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street , Vancouver, V6B 2G6
Tickets: Youth $20 / General $25

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Spring Intensive
Mar
12
to Mar 15

Spring Intensive

  • Q7 Studios, 77 East 7th Avenue, Vancouver BC V5T 1M4 (map)
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Serious applicants to the MO Full Program are strongly encouraged to attend the Spring Intensive. We strongly encourage serious applicants to audition through the Vancouver Spring Intensive, as it is the ideal way for dancers to get a sense of the environment and values of Modus Operandi and work more substantially with the directors. The Vancouver Audition is only for those dancers who are unable to attend the spring intensive. 

$435+GST

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