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Good Women Dance Collective

Good Women is a non-profit charitable organization. Collective artists work in contemporary dance, teaching, performing and producing new movement works.

The three founding members met at Grant MacEwan College in the Contemporary Dance Program, under the instruction of Brian Webb and Heidi Bunting. Graduating with their diplomas in dance, each member furthered their personal training in various directions, across Canada. Current artistic members include Ainsley Hillyard, Alison Kause, Kate Stashko and Alida Nyquist-Schultz. Good Women is committed to becoming part of, and supporting the Edmonton artistic community.

06/11/2026

Today at Nextfest: Dance in Progress featuring Jamie Stock, Aidan Fedun, Sarah Dolman and Rose Rose.

See you there at 4pm
Nextfest

06/10/2026

Last call for 2026/27 Scholarship applications!

Scholarship recipients will have access to Good Women classes for free from either September-December 2026, January-April 2027, or May-August 2027.

Our classes are taught by collective artists Alida Kendell, Deviani Andrea, Alison Kause and Molly McDermott, as well as a rotating roster of guest teachers. Classes are geared towards intermediate/ advanced movers and typically involve sequences of movements that travel in and out of the floor, with the sequences ranging from simple to intricate in their complexity.

Learn more and apply. Deadline is Friday, June 19
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCl9smpaAXBdr0lHZBHhYl_hroV_9VXTXqboViezPybvD-AQ/viewform

Image by Armand Bladon

06/08/2026

Classes This Week:

🩷Class with Molly McDermott
June 9 | 10-11:30 AM
Class will begin with a simple, yet vigorous led warm-up designed to bring everyone into collective movement. This incorporates improvisations guided by imagery, tasks and games. We will learn sequences of movement embracing the floor to start and ending up in the air. Molly’s teaching is influenced by her training in Butoh, and a wide variety of contemporary and somatic techniques. Her class is built on the philosophy that dance class is a place to come together as a community while also a place to challenge and care for the body.

🩷Nextfest Series: Class with Andi Fitzgerald
June 11 | 10-11:30 AM
Andi’s Modern class is inspired by a mix of techniques including the Graham technique and Horton technique. After completing a full body warm up, Andi will introduce key techniques and introduce phrases that dancers will be given the opportunity to practice in the centre and across the floor. Class will conclude with a Modern combination where Andi puts her own spin on certain movements. Andi takes a dancer- centered approach and is happy to adapt and modify during class to ensure that all dancers are challenged while keeping their bodies safe.

🩷Nextfest Series: Class with Emma-Lynn
June 12 | 10-11:30 AM
Embodied Echoes is a movement-based class that invites dancers to explore the connection between emotion, experience, and physical expression. Blending contemporary technique, improvisation, and guided exploration, the class encourages participants to access their inner landscape and translate it into dynamic, grounded movement. Through structured exercises and creative prompts, dancers will deepen their artistic voice, expand their movement vocabulary, and build a stronger connection between body and storytelling.

🩷Garuda Barre with Raena Waddell
Wednesdays | 10 am
Utilizing the ballet barre to “push and pull”, Garuda barre work emphasizes opening up space in the body while strengthening alignment and the core muscles that hold the body together. The movement is inspired by ballet, pilates and yoga offering a complete movement conditioning experience complimentary to various forms of dance technique.

Drop in $15
GWDC Class packs apply.
Payment can be made via e-transfers at [email protected]. Cash, debit or credit card in person.

🩷And remember - our FREE Parent and Child Classes are being offered each Monday 9:30 - 10:30.

06/05/2026

Storybook Skin at this weekend presented by .artsco

Tonight at 5pm
Saturday at 1pm
Sunday at 6 pm

Choreographed by Em Erickson
Directed by Chloe Rodgers

06/03/2026

⭐️Nextfest Program - Dance Variety

Nancy Power Theatre @ the Roxy
Friday, June 12th at 6 pm | Saturday, June 13th at 12 (noon) | Sunday, June 14th at 3 pm
Curated by Deviani Andrea
Lighting design by Adam Luijkx
Stage managed by mentored by Andrea Murphy

An eclectic showing of movement where big ensembles, soloists and aerialist come together. Featuring Emma Lynn Mackay-Ronacher, Andrea Fitzgerald, Katherine Mackenzie and Avery Denington.

Tickets and more information: https://theatrenetwork.ca/events/dance-nextfest-program-2-dance-variety/

06/02/2026

⭐️Nextfest Program - Dance in Progress

Lorne Cardinal Theatre @ The Roxy
Tuesday, June 9th at 5 pm & Thursday, June 11th at 4 pm
Curated by Deviani Andrea
Lighting design by Adam Luijkx
Stage managed by Molly Aikema mentored by Andrea Murphy 18+ show

This program features 4 works in progress: I Remember by Jamie Stock; Push & Pull by Aidan Fedun; Vanitas by Sarah Dolman; and Vitruvian Woman: more than just a body by Rose Rosé.

Tickets and information at: https://theatrenetwork.ca/events/dance-nextfest-program-3-dance-in-progress/

06/01/2026

Classes This Week: Featuring Nextfest Artists!

🩷Class with Jamie Stock
June 2
This class will offer participants the freedom to carry their energy internally and emotionally through improvisational based tasks. My piece “I Remember” is solely relying on the recollection of old memories through various vessels. I will introduce the participants to explore their minds and bodies through these techniques such as the physical, noise and song. We will also encounter various across the floor sequences and phrases that may inspire our movement while feeling moments of nostalgia.

🩷Class with Aidan Fedun
June 4
This class invites participants into a deeply embodied exploration of the somatic self—tuning into internal sensations, breath, and weight as primary sources of movement. Through guided improvisation and sensory-based exercises, dancers will be encouraged to move from within. We will look at how the space itself becomes an active collaborator. Walls, corners, floors, and pathways are not just surroundings but structural partners, offering resistance, support, direction, and limitation. Participants will investigate how architecture can shape and influence dynamics, and generate unexpected movement choices, transforming the environment into a living score. As the workshop unfolds, participants will begin to integrate these explorations into a series of evolving learning phrases. Drawing from their somatic awareness and relationship to the architecture, dancers will learn movement sequences that embody both internal sensation and external structure.

🩷Class with Sarah Dolman
June 5
Sarah Dolman (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, director, and arts administrator. She is a recent graduate of BA Drama Honors program at the University of Alberta, and believes, through her movement practice, that theatre is a catalyst for collaboration, self-discovery, and body-positivity. Sarah is classically trained in all dance styles, including tap, ballet, contemporary, and hip hop, but also values improvisation and finding new ways to see staging and technical theatre. Select credits include: Executive Director (New Works Festival, 2025), President/Vice President (MOD Contemporary Dance Company, 2023/24/25), Director/”The Piano Lesson” (NWF, 2026).

Drop in $15
GWDC Class packs apply.
Payment can be made via e-transfers at [email protected]. Cash, debit or credit card in person.

The Nextfest Arts Company

05/29/2026

⭐️Nextfest Feature⭐️

Storybook Skin is a movement/dance performance inspired by classic and contemporary literature, translating well-known stories into emotionally driven choreography that reflects issues facing society today. Drawing from works such as 1984, Animal Farm, The Metamorphosis, Lord of the Flies, Trainspotting, Frankenstein, and The Outsiders, each piece uses lighting, costuming, and music to explore darker themes through alternative storytelling. Performed by seven dancers, the work embraces a grungy, gothic aesthetic and utilizes music genres such as rock, metal, and musical theatre.

Choreographed by Em Erickson
Directed by Chloë Rodgers

June 5 | 5 PM
June 6 | 1 PM
June 7 | 6 PM

Tickets and more information: https://theatrenetwork.ca/events/dance-nextfest-program-1-storybook-skin/

TThe Nextfest Arts Company

05/26/2026

On International Dance Day (April 29), Dance Lives Here launched at an event at City Hall.

Good Women performed at the the event and New Pathways News spoke with Alison:

"Dance Lives Here initiative was created to make Edmonton’s dance community more visible across the city... Kause said the campaign aims to showcase dance in bigger and more public ways while helping independent artists and organizations reach new audiences through collaboration and shared promotion. Edmonton’s dance community is deeply collaborative, entrepreneurial, and community-focused, she added."

Read the full article below!

Image by Ksenia Lukiianchuk

https://newpathway.ca/dance-lives-here-campaign-launched/

05/25/2026

Good Women Dance Collective proudly and fondly congratulates collective artist Molly McDermott on her new role as incoming Artistic Director of the Brian Webb Dance Company. Molly will begin a gradual transition away from GWDC in the fall of 2026 as she integrates into her new position.

Molly has been an integral part of GWDC since 2023. She has invigorated the organization with her skills in creation, performance, teaching and administration, and has played an active role in solidifying GWDC’s artistic focus. Her aptitude for problem solving and her enthusiasm for pursuing new opportunities has fortified the collective, positioning the organization for success in our coming seasons. We are grateful for the time we have spent with Molly sweating over creative ideas, toiling over budgets and dreaming up new initiatives.

We are certainly sad to see her go, but we know her work with BWDC will enrich Edmonton’s dance community in new and exciting ways. We know first hand that organizations, board members and artists count themselves lucky when Molly is on their side. It will be with pleasure that we follow along as she directs BWDC into its next phase.

Molly: Thank you, love you, m***e!

Brian Webb Dance Company

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10515 111 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
T5H3E8

Telephone

+17808026867

Website

http://www.goodwomen.ca/

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