SARAH
BREWER CLOWES

Class: Workshopping Our Choreographic Voices

Sarah teaches a choreographic creation class that allows every dancer to find the ability to move with individual vocabulary in an enjoyable, authentic and inventive way.

Her foray into choreographic development is based on methods learned in her long choreographic career and is designed to allow even the most “blocked” channel of artistic exploration to become free.

Every dancer has a capacity to create and Sarah’s classes are based on exploring and developing that language within us.

Recommended Attire:

  • Comfortable contemporary attire that allows you to move without restriction

  • Socks or Bare feet

Sarah Brewer Clowes is a master teacher with a career spanning the continent as well as a time period of over 47 years. She is also a dancer, choreographer, adjudicator and personal movement expert. Sarah is a proud mother, a podcaster and workshop creator/leader on the importance of Injury Prevention through Health Maintenance and Anatomical Basics. 

Sarah’s performing career began at the Munich Ballet in Germany over 40 years ago and included dancing with the Northwest Florida Ballet, Banff Festival Ballet and the Vancouver Opera.

Her independent performing career encompassed most of her professional dance life and allowed her the privilege of working with such luminaries as Crystal Pite, David Earle, Wen Wei Wang, Cori Caulfield, Amber Funk Barton, Sylvain Senez and Gioconda Barbuto to name a few. She choreographs for both amateur and professional dancers and loves the explorative process of creating with artists. Sarah has also had the pleasure of adjudicating dance festivals all over Western Canada, including two Provincial festivals in B.C. Sarah Brewer Clowes is a sought-after mentor in the world of dance, currently working regularly with dancers at Tri City Dance Centre, K & S Dance Productions, Lamondance, The Source Dance Company, HDC ITP as well as guest teaching throughout B.C.
As a teacher, Sarah’s passion lies in creating space and potential for each and every dancer to discover their own path to movement clarity, both in physical health and in technical individuality. Her methods involve an emphasis on anatomical knowledge, personal expression and love of self-discovery. She is renowned for creating a “safe space” for dancers to discover their own artistic voice and physical expression of technical movement.


Sarah is highly respected for her extensive anatomical knowledge and creation of workshops that assist in maintaining dancer’s physical and mental health. She is also the creator of “Sarah’s Space”, a podcast that addresses a plethora of subjects from the arts world to social unrest and everything in between.

Sarah’s deepest motivation is to help everyone that she works with find the best way they can dance forward in life. 

OLIVIA ROBERTSON

Class: Mapping Out The Music

Learn how to see, hear and feel the structure of music.

This hip hop workshop will explore musicality, song mapping, and identifying beats, rhythms, accents and transitions to help you move with greater intention, confidence, and creativity!

Recommended Attire:

  • Hip Hop attire you can freely move in

  • Clean indoor street shoes

Olivia Robertson has been dancing since she could walk, and her lifelong passion continues to fuel her mission to educate, empower, and inspire students, peers, and collaborators across North America.

As a performer, she trained extensively in concert and studio dance, achieving RAD Advanced II certification and advanced levels in hip hop, tap, jazz, lyrical jazz, theatre, modern, and contemporary. She earned multiple provincial, national, and international awards in dance, music, and voice, with leading stage roles including Munkustrap in Cats and The Cat in the Hat in Seussical. Her training has taken her to leading studios in Los Angeles, New York City, Vancouver, and Paris.

As a choreographer, Olivia has been recognized with numerous awards over two decades, including international recognition at a global conference in Stockholm. Her recent credits include Big Apple Productions’ Cabaret (2023), This Is Me (2024, as choreographer, director, and co-producer), and The Rocky Horror Show (2025, as co-choreographer and production consultant).

As an educator, Olivia is celebrating her 11th year as a studio owner, teaching dancers ages 18 months to 65+. She holds certifications with CDTA, IDTS, DEEA, and YPAD, and was elected Chair of the CDTA Hip Hop Dance Studies Division. She facilitates adjudicator training programs through The Dance Leadership Institute and is Level 2 certified in Master the Art of Adjudicating.

Olivia also holds a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and leads SOPRO Consulting, working globally with performing arts professionals to achieve lasting career success by integrating her expertise in dance, mental wellness, and organizational leadership.