Facilities & University Resources
As a graduate student at York University, you have a variety of outstanding of resources available to you to help in your pursuit of a degree.
Conditioning Room
The conditioning room is only open during regular office hours (8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday). You can sign out a key from the Music Department’s front desk (371 ACE). (Please note that only those with proper training are permitted to use the Pilates and Gyrotonics equipment.)
Dance Grad Lounge & TA Office
The Graduate Program in Dance is located in offices on the third floor of the Accolade East Building. There is a TA office and grad student lounge, accessible by keypad codes. These offices are equipped with desks, filing cabinets, mailboxes, telephones, and computer stations.
Each graduate student has a mailbox in the Dance graduate student office/lounge (331 ACE). Be sure to check your mailbox occasionally for forms, flyers, and magazines.
Please be mindful that graduate students who are working as TA’s might occasionally need privacy in the TA Office to meet one-on-one with students.
Dance Studio Facilities
In 2006, the Department of Dance moved into new, state-of-the-art facilities in the Accolade East Building at the heart of York’s Keele campus. Dance students have access to a wide range of specialized facilities and resources including:
- The Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre (See Performance Spaces)
- McLean Performance Studio (See Performance Spaces)
- The Grant Strate Studio
- The Walter and Robert Carsen Studio
- Five additional studios
- Conditioning room
- Physiotherapy, massage, and sports medicine clinic
- Costume collection
- Dance-specific computer software and peripherals
The dance studios provide an ideal working situation in which to develop areas such as documentation, reconstruction, dance and technology, embodiment practices, and alternative dance training techniques.
Graduate students in Dance may book dance studios (rehearsal space only) at no charge. Bookings and usage are subject to the following terms: graduate students may book space, in slots of up to two hours (maximum 4 hours/week) for a two-week in advance period. Weekend studio space must be booked by Thursday of the week involved. Please make all bookings at the Music Department front desk (371 ACE). Though we will strive to avoid doing so, situations may arise that require the cancellation of studio bookings. In all such cases, every attempt will be made to find alternate studio space.
Studio floors and equipment are valuable resources and expensive to repair. Please help take care of them. Only dance shoes are to be worn in the studios; street shoes and boots are not allowed. Black chairs are for performance and teaching use only. Pianos are to be used by Dance Department musicians only. The occupant who has booked studio space will be responsible for any loss or damage to the studio and equipment housed therein.
Hall lockers are available throughout AMPD (in the CFA, ACE, and CFT). They are available to all enrolled AMPD students, regardless of program or department. Lockers are rented through the AMPD Information Centre, located in the lobby of the CFA (164D). You must bring a valid YU card to pay for the locker rental, as well as a printed timetable that shows your current enrollment in an AMPD program. The fee for the locker rental must be paid via YU card. A locker rental costs $40 and lasts for a year-long term or $25 per term. You must provide your own lock to secure your rented locker. Please email ampdlock@yorku.ca with any questions.
Performance Spaces
The McLean Performance Studio
244 Accolade East Building – Second Floor
The McLean Performance Studio is a 90-seat, informal theatre space dedicated to dance performance. It features a dance lighting plot, sound system, and moveable black draperies.
The Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre
Accolade East Building – Main Floor
The Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre is a 360-seat proscenium theatre that can accommodate a variety of events such as dance, theatre, musicals, conferences, and lectures. The theatre offers a generous stage, side stage, wings, backstage space, an orchestra pit, fly system, traps, a loading dock, dressing rooms, and a comprehensive array of technical equipment, with a seating capacity of 325. This beautiful space is used regularly for dance, music, and theatre events.
CUPE 3903
CUPE 3903, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3903, represents contract faculty, teaching assistants (TA’s), graduate assistants (GA’s), and part-time librarians, and archivists at York University. Unit 1 members have a teaching contract (working as TA’s) and are full-time graduate students. We recommend connecting with CUPE through their Listserv or contacting them in person or via email.
CUPE 3903 provides a Health and Benefits plan for all of its members.
PhD students working in our department as TA’s are encouraged to fill out and submit a Blanket Application (TA CUPE 3903 Unit 1) to our Administrative Assistant.
YUGSA
YUGSA is the York University Graduate Student Association, which is dedicated to providing advocacy and support to all members across various graduate departments on York’s campuses.
The YUGSA Health and Dental plan is mandatory for all full-time graduate students who are not members of CUPE 3903, who are without alternate coverage (eg. through a parent or workplace), and is optional for part-time students.
Learn More
The Graduate Program in Dance at York is an exciting environment to pursue innovative, socially engaging, career-ready education. Contact our Graduate Program Assistant to learn more.