Brianna Lombardo
Photo © Bobby León
Voice and movement workshop - Raise our voices!​
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I see this workshop as a space to explore the interconnectedness of our voice and our movement practices. Exploring how one can affect, influence, and possibly deepen, the other.
We’ll play with sound, words, text, volume, physicality, breath, and impulse to see how opening the voice can shift and inform our body, widen our emotional range, and bring more depth to our artistic work.
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Dance and movement training is often a mute one, we train to “speak” with our bodies. But what happens when we open our mouths? When we allow ourselves to raise our voice, express an opinion, or share something of our inner landscape.
And sing, loudly, even if off tune.
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We’ll work gently on unblocking the voice and find simple ways into vocal expression, noticing how it can support us in showing up more fully in our movement and artistic practice. By mixing voice and movement together, we open up new possibilities for different physicalities, presence, and play.
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Also, and perhaps more importantly, this is a space to misbehave, be ridiculous, too much, messy, hilarious, tragic, loud, quiet... you get the idea. There’s no “right way” here. The goal is to play, explore, take risks, have fun and not take ourselves too seriously.
Brianna Lombardo
© Mathieu Doyon
Voice and movement workshop - Raise our voices!​
June 8 to 12, 2026
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
(10 hours)
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École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal
Studio: to be confirmed
Pricing and
Registration
DAC member - $ 110
Standard - $ 180
*This course may be partially reimbursed through the RQD Training Support Program. Check directly with the RQD.
Brianna Lombardo
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Brianna Lombardo trained at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre before travelling through Europe on a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, working with a range of international artists. As an independent dancer, she collaborated in Toronto with Michael Trent and Matjash Mrozewski and in Montreal with Isabelle Van Grimde and Jean-Pierre Perreault, later joining O Vertigo from 2004 to 2010. Returning to freelancing, she developed long-standing artistic relationships with Mélanie Demers (MAYDAY), Jacques Poulin-Denis (Grand Poney), Frédérick Gravel (Grouped’ArtGravelArtGoup), Caroline Laurin-Beaucage, Martin Messier, Montréal Danse, and Daniel Leveillé Danse, and more recently with Parts & Labour Danse, Helen Simard, and Roger White. Her path also led her to Une fin, by Sebastien David, with Théâtre PAP and to an ongoing practice of coaching movement for theatre. Her work now expands through teaching interpretation and improvisation at UQAM and EDCM, where she shares her approach to inhabiting bodies, worlds, and roles. She has been transmitting MAYDAY and Frédérick Gravel repertory since 2010, while continuing to accompany long-term collaborators as a rehearsal director. A mother of nine-year-old twins, Brianna draws ongoing inspiration from navigating the ever-shifting balance between motherhood and an artistic life — a dynamic that continually fuels her curiosity, resilience, and creative energy.