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We host workshops, jams, screenings, and gatherings, while also carrying our events beyond the studio—traveling from town to town and internationally to meet new communities.
Our work is mobile, and we’re available to be booked for your own events as well, whether that means inviting Sophie to lead a workshop or movement experience, or hiring Jani to document your event through photography.
Wherever it happens, we’re here to create thoughtful, grounded, and meaningful experiences together.
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Explore our schedule of dance, photography, and creative studio events. Find details, times, and locations for all upcoming and recent activities.
Join us for an 8-week research series exploring human connection through movement, presence, and improvisation. No dance experience required.
In ʻIke, seeing is a tender, risky practice: I let you exist fully in my eyes, and you let me exist in yours. The work moves between subtle, intimate encounters and larger group constellations, tracing how attention travels through a room, how trust is built or withheld, how proximity can both soothe and unsettle.
Join us for 8 weeks of movement, growth, and community.
The Cocoon Lab invites dancers and creative movers into an 8-week adventure, shaped by the playful and experimental spirit of Sophie Barbarics. Each session is a hands-on laboratory of movement, blending contemporary dance technique, improvisation, and expressive exercises designed to spark curiosity and transformation.
The Cocoon Lab is an intimate 6‑week online movement and choreographic research laboratory for committed dancers and emerging dance artists.
With 7 paid spots and 1 full scholarship available, this cohort offers structured mentorship for early-career, warm-hearted dreamers who want their movement practice to feel real, grounded, and in motion— across distances.
This 4-week pilot offers professional-level contemporary training in Nelson for advanced and committed intermediate dancers (16+) ready to deepen technique, artistry, and grounded stage presence in a supportive, non-competitive environment. It focuses on clear, progressive training and performance readiness.
Into the Wild is a live-music dance jam led by Sophie Barbarics, offering a guided warm-up and an open, improvised space to move freely, explore bold themes, and follow your own rhythm—no choreography, no pressure. Open to curious movers of all backgrounds, it’s a consent-led, welcoming experience focused on play, connection, and letting your body tell its story.
Bring ember∙kind to your community and ignite a space where movement becomes language, gathering, and gentle revolution. We weave contemporary dance, somatic exploration, and creative research into the everyday life of your studio, festival, school, or arts hub, strengthening your cultural ecosystem. We arrive with an open heart, listening to the stories already present, and inviting people to move from exactly where they are. Workshops, residencies, and performance projects become living laboratories for connection, courage, and wild, honest expression.
Hosting ember∙kind helps attract committed adults, deepen your offerings, and build long-term, values-aligned collaborations.
If you are a photography lover, beginner/semi pro/pro photographer, we are looking for YOU to join our monthly photo club at The Booster.
We discuss/analyse the pictures YOU bring! Share your ideas, tips and tricks with fellow photographers, make new friends and improve your skills!
Book with Jani for photography that captures more than an image — captures movement, emotion, and story. Specializing in expressive portraits, dance photography, product photo, and creative visual projects, Jani brings a rare perspective shaped by his background as a professional dancer and multidisciplinary artist.
Don’t miss your chance to work with a someone who sees beyond the lens — book with Jani today and make your vision come alive!
In collaboration with the Nelson & District Chamber of Commerce, our space is hosting the BAB event for the first time.
Rent The Booster is an open invitation to creators of all kinds—a flexible, welcoming studio for rehearsals, classes, gatherings, shoots, and creative experiments. We believe in what you’re building, and we’d love to be the space where your ideas take shape.