Courses & Workshops
Our Mission is to foster our students’ creativity in a safe supportive learning environment. Come play with us!
Kira Schaffer offers courses, workshops, and private coaching sessions in a range of dance and circus modalities, focusing on self-expression, authenticity and presence as well as technical skill. She has offered workshops in aerials, fire dance, performance skills, mindfulness in movement, dancing within natural ecosystems, site-specific dance creation, mixed abilities aerial dance, and guided meditation. Her students range from beginners to professional dancers and circus performers.
Kira recently opened “Dreaming Rabbit Studio”, a new aerial dance and movement space on Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, and will be offering many new classes, workshops and residency opportunities out of this space as well as performances and special events. More info on the new studio space coming soon.
Upcoming Courses
Aerial Dance Improvisation (Fabric Slings)
Beginner, Adult
@ Dreaming Rabbit Studio, Salt Spring Island
Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30pm
March 17 – April 21, 2026
$240 for 6-week series
Curious to try it first? Join the first class as a drop-in ($40)
Course Description:
This course offers a playful, exploratory approach to aerial dance using low-hanging fabric slings. Through a balance of technical instruction and improvisational practice, students will develop embodied awareness, creativity, and confidence moving both on the floor and in the air.
Classes move fluidly between foundational aerial skills and improvisational prompts designed to access the body’s innate intelligence through curiosity, experimentation, and play. Technical instruction emphasizes safe progressions, healthy alignment, and strength-building, while improvisational work supports greater flow, ease, and expressive freedom, encouraging each student’s unique movement style to emerge.
Over the six-week series, we’ll explore basic aerial sequences on the fabric slings, swinging and spinning, and the dynamic interplay between floor-based and aerial movement. As the course progresses, classes shift from a focus on individual exploration to working with partners or groups, often drawing on principles from contact dance improvisation.
This class is open to adults with a range of movement backgrounds and strength levels. The improvisational nature of the class allows for students to progress at their own pace. No prior aerial experience or particular level of fitness is required. Just a willingness to explore, play, and engage with the process.
Payments are by e-transfer for 6-week course or 1-day class. Credit card payment system will be available soon.
Aerial Silks – registration opening mid-March
Beginner, Adult
@ Dreaming Rabbit Studio, Salt Spring Island
Dates and Time TBA
$240 for 6-week series
Course description and other details coming soon
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If you’d like to bring Kira Schaffer to teach a workshop in your community or you are interested in private coaching sessions please contact us.
Refund Policy
Full refund available 1 week prior to first class minus a $10 admin fee. No refunds available after this date.
Our teaching philosophy
We help students develop strong technique (and muscles) while encouraging them to find their own style and artistic voice. We believe that every body has it’s own unique beauty waiting to be expressed. We want to help free your creativity within a playful, safe and supportive environment. We believe the world needs more playful creative folks. Come join us.