Codie Primeau - @codieprimeau

Drop In Instructor, Commercial Dance

BIOGRAPHY:

Codie grew up in Cornwall, Ontario and is currently a student at Western University in the combined Physical Therapy and PhD program. He began his dance training at O.N.E (2014) in Choreography Movement and has since been working to diversify his style by training in other dance genres such as contemporary, jazz funk, and movement. He has competed with the O.N.E Competitive Team at various competitions and showcases (including Culture Shock Ottawa’s International Showcase, Urban Rumble Dance Competition and Gadfly’s Cincotrybe Hip Hop Choreo Championship), and with Hip Hop Western's competitive team The IX at O.U.C.H. University Dance Competition.

He has also been working on improving his craft through training intensives such as the Creative Rebels Collective (Ken Pham), dance conventions such as MONSTERS (Luther Brown, Luam Keflezgy, Rhapsody James & Ysabelle Capitulé), R2D Dance Camp (Reet Roy) and the Build-Up Program (Jerome Esplana), and workshops such as YGTG (Melanie Mah - SYTYCD: Canada). He has also performed in showcases such as Toronto’s Choreographer's Ball (Scott Fordham) and co-choreographed (with Dana Hambly) Canadian country music band Runaway Angel’s music video for “Hard To Get”. He is also a co-director for the O.N.E Contemporary Company, which has performed in the London Fringe Festival (2019) and the London Dance Festival (2019), where he was also a co-choreographer (with Cynthia Nakeyar) for the festival Flash Mob. He is the Administrative Manager for the Creative Rebels Collective. Codie draws from his experiences as a student to challenge himself in creating pieces that incorporate movement from various dance genres. His goals are to provide a positive learning environment for dancers of all levels to self-express through movement and have fun.