Projects
What is a project?
Projects bring participants together to work toward a specific goal, whether it is a dance piece that will be presented in front of an audience, or training intensively for a period of time. It’s an opportunity to build relationships with other dancers you will learn and train with during a few months.
The projects can take various forms depending on the coaches’ artistic vision and the participants’ commitment.
New in 2025-2026:
Because we believe everyone should have access to the richest dance experience possible,
Because we believe MUSIC is at the heart of everything we do,
Cat’s Corner is launching a new season of projects with LIVE MUSIC!
Did you know that Cat’s Corner has been an incubator for some of the most popular swing dance bands in town? It’s no wonder that our talented dancers and project teams have been performing to live music regularly over the past decades!
Starting in the Fall 2025, we will pilot a new program to continue our mission: Cat’s Corner will team up with a band per season. Little by little, all projects will benefit from the guidance of a band leader and their musicians. You will learn about the music, develop listening skills, train to adapt your dancing to the living music and develop a common bond… The teams will perform to live music at the end of each season, so make sure to save the date and not miss this precious opportunity!
This is a full-session journey with the goal of training together and/or performing a choreography at the end of the season. To ensure a great experience for all participants, we ask you to commit to the full session (Sept-Dec/Jan-March/April-June/July-Aug).
Project trials and auditions take place in September and January. If you can’t attend the auditions, please contact us and we’ll forward your requests to the coaches.
Check out the videos and photos we shared on our Instagram and Facebook.
Contact us at 514-874-9846 or by email info@catscorner.ca.
C-Jam Crew (C2)
TRIALS: Monday, August 25th, 2025
C-Jam Crew is an entry-level Lindy Hop performance project that focuses on learning and performing a choreographed routine. Join this dynamic team to learn your first routine: it's an experience not to be missed and the beginning of your lindy hopper journey!
PRE-REQUISITE: trials
Facility with basic figures, rhythm combinations and various tempos (Lindy Foundations and equivalent).
Cool Cats Coleslaw Collective (C4)
AUDITIONS: Monday, August 25th, 2025
Our longest running performance project at Cat’s Corner, well known as the advanced group that is up for any challenge: fast, slow, tap, jam, improvisation and a spectacular performance with live music!
PRE-REQUISITE: level check at the auditions
Facility with basic figures, rhythm combinations and various tempos (Lindy Open and equivalent).
JAZZ CATS & OTHER SOLO PROJECTS
AUDITIONS: Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
Good solo dancing is essential to becoming a good partner dancer, full stop. Solo Jazz is also simply the best. Cat’s Corner has a longstanding tradition of jazz dancers, jazz collectives, and nurturing the development of individual, unique voices. Because Solo Jazz is so much fun, what's even more fun is when all the cats dance together!
Join the Jazz Cats and get a chance to work on your solo with a group of like-minded individuals! These Jazz Cats will focus on hearty jazz, the most classic, iconic, legendary JAZZ DANCE.
PRE-REQUISITE: trials
Solo jazz basics or foundations-open level. Do you know your Shim Sham Shimmy?
Chorus Line
AUDITIONS: Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
Chorus Line jazz is like a dancing encyclopedia of vernacular jazz steps. You will explore the repertoire of the great showgirls of famous Harlem jazz clubs. The training will involve elements of tap dance technique.
Although the inspiration of everything this collective will do is grounded in the voices of legendary women of jazz, ALL BODIES and GENDERS are welcome here and costume cohesion will be representative of the dancers participating.
PRE-REQUISITE: level check at the auditions
Facility with basic jazz dance figures, rhythm combinations and various tempos (Lindy Open and some Solo Jazz and/or Tap experience).
Lindy Training
AUDITIONS: Monday, August 25th, 2025
A training project is a focused group with limited spots, for training intensively without a performance goal. Working with the same dancers and coaches will help you set your goals and refine your technique to help you best express yourself on the dance floor.
PRE-REQUISITE: level and commitment check at the auditions
Facility with basic lindy hop and vernacular jazz moves, rhythm combinations and various tempos (Lindy Advanced and equivalent).
COLLEGIATE SHAG TRAINING
AUDITIONS: Thursday, Sept 11th, 2025
A “training project” is a focused group with limited spots, for training intensively without a performance goal. Would you like to dive body and soul into a lesser-known but really FUN swing dance, the Collegiate Shag, with a collective of dancers just as enthusiastic as you? This Shag training session is dedicated to building a community of Shag dancers in Montreal and giving you the tools to become a local ambassador of the dance.
PRE-REQUISITE: level and commitment check at the auditions.
Lindy foundations or equivalent. You don’t need to know the basics of Collegiate Shag to join, but a high level of engagement and desire to learn is expected of all members.
Balboa Project
TRIALS: will return in the future!
Take part in a Balboa-focussed project, aimed at creating a motivating experience to train, play and explore! The session will end with a special choreographed routine created for you by the coaches.
PRE-REQUISITE: trials
Facility with basic Balboa figures, rhythm combinations and various tempos (Balboa Foundations and equivalent).
Blues Project
TRIALS: will return in the future!
Blues music is the best-known form of Black music. Its dance is a deep and rich expression of the human experience. The project aims at gathering all blues dance enthusiasts who wish to learn and train with other motivated learners with a clear creative goal.
PRE-REQUISITE: trials
Facility with basic blues dance moves, rhythm combinations and various tempos (Blues Foundations and equivalent).
Competition Project & Battle Training
TRIALS: will return in the future!
Dive deeper into Black social dance culture from a jam and battle perspective. The project aims to reconnect jazz dancers to an element of the original culture of the dance.
PREREQUISITE: trials
Facility with basic solo jazz moves. Open to everyone with an interest in jazz and some dance experience.
