DanceHouse, in partnership with Lamondance, is happy to offer a unique Workshop opportunity with
Ex Machina and Côté Danse (Quebec City and Toronto)| Masterclass
Workshop: Masterclass with Lukas Malkowski – Floor work
When: Thursday, March 19, 2026
Time: 1 to 2:30 pm
Where: Lamondance - 3355 Mountain Highway, North Vancouver, BC, V7K 2H4
Investment: $25 (Cash)
Space is limited
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Lukas Malkowski (he/they) is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult), iconographic|clastic performance maker and Aquarius based
between Germany and Canada. He started dancing at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, later obtaining his BFA in Dance Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University. Embodying physics, voice, and Sign; he has choreographed full length works, ambient sets, music videos, and films with Naishi Wang, Sam Slater (Joker OST), LBT, and 7th Plain (Luke Slater) at CTM Festival, FestivalTransAmérique, and the Schrittmacher Festival, recently winning audience choice award at the biennial dance: made in Canada festival. Flowmentum: his teaching practice is driven by embodiments of physics through sight and touch. In 2021 Malkowski received the Recherchestipendium Darstellende Kunst. He is also one of the 2022/23 Tanzpraxis Emerging Artist scholarship recipients. He created an ecstatic solo premiere Moan in 2024 and the Sign Language duet Sign Momentum in 2025.
Photo by Alvin Collantes
HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
EX MACHINA & CÔTÉ DANSE (QUEBEC CITY & TORONTO)
Presented with Community Partner Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival and Théâtre la Seizième
Note: This performance contains strobe lights
Since its writing, circa 1599-1601, William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark has been subject to countless interpretations.
Eschewing words, Ex Machina + Côté Danse’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark reinvents the archetypal drama into something raw and immediate. Canonical soliloquies that parse the darkest of human instincts and actions: corruption, suicide, betrayal and murder find a riveting new form.
Expanding upon their previous collaboration Frame by Frame (inspired by the work of visionary animator Norman McLaren), co-creators Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté bring their respective genius to Shakespeare’s most famous work. Côté embodies the central character, wrestling with existential questions of being and nothingness, while Lepage, a master of multiple theatrical disciplines, infuses the Bard’s epic tale of intergenerational trauma with contemporary relevance.
With surtitles functioning as a kind of a Greek chorus, blood-red velvet drapery and pools of golden light from designer Simon Rossiter, the shadowy realm of dark motives and oedipal longing are made manifest. Composer John Gzowski’s original score further fleshes the narrative as the nine members of Côté Danse take on the roster of characters: Hamlet and Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Horatio and Laertes, Gertrude, Claudius, and Polonius.
Through the universal medium of dance, the story is told anew, a play without words, but rich with its own language.
Ex Machina is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the City of Québec.
March 18-21, 2026 | 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse
600 Hamilton Street
Tickets available at https://dancehouse.ca