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Committed to dance excellence
▫️serving the greater Vancouver area
▫️beginner to professional training
▫️three best rated dance studio Coquitlam BC

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If all else fails, join the circus! 🎪

#evolvedancecomp #evolvewithus #experienceevolve

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✨ DAY 1 of our INAUGURAL Ballet+ Vancouver! 🇨🇦🩰

What an incredible start to our very first Canadian event! ❤️ We had the privilege of dancing inside the beautiful Ballet BC studios on Vancouver’s Granville Island, a space filled with so much creative energy. ✨ We feel incredibly lucky to be here, sharing the space, the movement, and the magic together.

From ballet 🩰 to Limón modern, contemporary, and improvisation 💫, we’re exploring, growing, connecting, and pushing boundaries together. Every class, every movement, and every moment reminds us why we do what we do: to learn, to share, to create, and to grow through dance. 🤍🔥

The energy is REAL, the community is growing, and we’re only just getting started! 🚀

Thank you @balletbc for lending us your home and thank you for the warm reception, Vancouver!

Day 2, HERE WE COME! 💥🩰❤️

#BalletPlus #BalletPlusVancouver #franciscogelladanceworks

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✨ MEET TWO OF YOUR BALLET+ VANCOUVER FACULTY!

Join Francisco Gella and Benjamin Peralta for two days of training, artistry, and connection. Bring your curiosity, challenge yourself, and discover new possibilities in your dancing. 🩰

📍 Ballet BC Studios | Vancouver, BC
🗓 October 10 & 11
Ages 10-college
One or two day passes
DM for registration info.

Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Contemporary Ballet, Improv

⭐ FRANCISCO GELLA | Artistic Director

Francisco Gella is an internationally recognized educator, mentor, choreographer, and artistic director known for his dynamic approach to dance training, artistic development, and community-centered leadership. As the founder and artistic director of Zeitgeist Dance Theatre, he has created innovative works that blend technical excellence with emotional depth, cultural storytelling, and collaborative artistry. Through his teaching, mentorship, and choreography, Gella continues to inspire dancers and emerging artists by fostering discipline, individuality, creativity, and meaningful human connection through movement.

⭐ BENJAMIN PERALTA | Core Faculty

Benjamin Peralta (he/him) grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where he danced competitively and trained at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. In 2018, Benjamin left home to pursue a BFA in dance at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance as part of the Class of 2022. While studying at USC Kaufman, Peralta performed the works of artists such as William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, and more. Prior to joining Ballet BC, Peralta staged William Forsythe’s ‘The Barre Project’ alongside Jodie Gates and William Forsythe at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York. During his time at Ballet BC, he has been in creation processes with Crystal Pite, Medhi Walerski, Johan Inger, Roy Assaf, Pierre Pontvianne, Andrea Peña, and Fernando Hernando Magadan, to name a few. He has also performed works by Sharon Eyal, Marco Goecke, Imre & Marne van Opstal, and others while with Ballet BC. This is Benjamin’s fifth season with Ballet BC.

Come ready to learn, explore, and grow with us! ✨

#BalletPlus #FranciscoGellaDanceWorks #VancouverDance #DanceTraining

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💫 Some of our favourite shots from our latest shoot at Dance Force 💫

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the time of my life… something i found myself saying over and over again whenever anyone asked me how i was doing 🫶

as i sit here on the plane home, looking back on the last month and a half, all i can feel is grateful. 39 pieces choreographed. countless hours in the studio. body constantly sore. but yet i still found myself not ready to go home at the end of my days

when i first made the decision to step away from the competitive dance world and move to london, there was a lot of fear that came with it. i was leaving behind a world that had been such a huge part of my life for so many years, and i didn’t really know what that would look like on the other side

getting to come back now as a guest choreographer and create on dancers i’ve watched grow up throughout my years in vancouver feels incredibly full circle. to still have a place here, to walk back into these studios and feel at home, and to get to do what i love with people i love is something i will never take for granted

thank u to every studio that welcomed me and every person i got to share a studio with. thank u for trusting my ideas, letting me create, and reminding me over and over again why i love what i do so much

my heart is very full. what a special chapter this was.

back to london i go ✈️

#dance #danceteacher #choreographer #dancestudio #travel

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spend the day choreographing with me 🫶

always so grateful for my time at @thedanceforce.studio
creating for this group of dancers is truly a dream. thank you for having me for yet another year ♥️ endless love x

#dance #choreography #dancestudio #danceteacher #dancer

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Happy Back to School! 🚌📚

#evolvedancecomp #evolvewithus #experienceevolve

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🇨🇦 WE’RE COMING TO VANCOUVER, BC! 🍁✨

BALLET+ | A Canadian Thanksgiving Pop-Up Event
📅 October 10 & 11
📍 Ballet BC Studios
✨ Come for one day—or join us for both!
🍀 Optional solo critique sessions

Designed for intermediate and advanced dancers:
🩰 Ages 10–12
🩰 Ages 13–College

Although this special pop-up was created to make our training programs more accessible to Canadian dancers, ALL dancers are welcome to attend! 🇨🇦🌎

Condensed from our traditional three-day intensives, this weekend will feature some of our most popular Ballet+ classes:

🩰 Ballet
🔥 Modern
💡 Improvisation
✨ Contemporary Ballet
⚡ Contemporary Technique
🎭 Zeitgeist Dance Theatre Repertory

And an incredible faculty joining us in Vancouver:

⭐ Francisco Gella — Ballet/Modern Faculty at 24 Seven Dance
⭐ Kelby Brown — Ballet Faculty at 14 Seven Dance
⭐ Livona Ellis — Kidd Pivot Company Dancer + Arts Umbrella Faculty
⭐ Benjamin Peralta — Ballet BC Company Dancer

📲 ENROLL NOW + GET MORE DETAILS
Scan the QR code on this post or visit:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/balletplusvancouver

🍁 Spend your Canadian Thanksgiving weekend training, creating, and dancing with us in Vancouver!

Technique. Artistry. Purpose. Belonging. ❤️

#dance #ballet #franciscogelladance #BalletPlus

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with the new season beginning, i wanted to share some of my favourites from the past season. i rarely share my work on here but i wanted to acknowledge how proud i am of my students and also myself! little me growing up in singapore would’ve never thought i would be in the position i am today and i couldn’t be more grateful. thank you always to @thedanceforce.studio and @shannon.nicole.xo for the safe space to grow, learn and explore 🩷

anyway here’s to the new season! can’t wait to see you all back in the studio!

danceforce elites! my girls 🩷

emmy girl 🩷

my day one queen

this intro for house of queens 💙

jr acro

i loved this piece and ms @kiara_stjohn

bonus baby me

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Hanging onto these last days of summer 😎☀️

#evolvedancecomp #evolvewithus #experienceevolve

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Sometimes colour correction starts months before the lightener ever touches the hair. 🧪

My client is naturally a level 6 with fine hair, but for years we had been colouring her with permanent IGORA ROYAL 8-77 + 20 vol.

I knew blonde was eventually the goal, but I didn’t want to take years of permanent copper and immediately start trying to bleach through it.

So in October 2025, I took her brunette — close to her natural level 6.

The brunette wasn’t meant to magically remove the copper or “heal” the hair. It gave me something much more valuable: TIME.

We stopped continually adding that intense copper and allowed that old colour history to grow farther down the hair while keeping her colour wearable and closer to her natural level.

7½ months later, on June 17, we started blonding.

For our first session I used AirTouch, blowing out the shorter hairs, and began lifting her progressively.

Is a natural level 6 chemically the same as an artificially coloured level 6? No. But I now had a much more controlled canvas than I would have had if I’d continued applying 8-77 right up until her blonde appointment.

This wasn’t about getting her blonde as fast as possible.

It was about planning the transformation months in advance and protecting the integrity of her fine hair.
Do you agree with this approach?
Xx

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Is YOLO still a thing?! We could not have rammed anymore action in to this month if we tried 😆🤪🥳💗

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