About

The Singing Dancing Garden is a nomadic mystery school for song, dance and the metaphysical arts founded by Be Heintzman Hope in 2013 and previously known as Wxmb Cxre. The idea of the Singing Dancing Garden comes from a workshop co-facilitated with Shahir Krishna as an ecosystem of breath, voice and movement. Here, using tone as language is a diasporic act of resistance to colonial language(s) and the loss of our mother tongue(s). The mission of this pedagogy is to connect people to their embodied wisdom and inherent luminosity. Techniques practiced at the Singing Dancing Garden honour the water in the body and cultivate an inner dialogue that makes space for fluid understandings of rebirth.

Be

Moving between sound and performance, Be is a facilitator of music, dance and embodiment ritual based between Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang, colonially known as Montréal and the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musquem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Wateuth) peoples. 

They have over a decade of experience guiding breath, voice, movement, dance and meditation practices — from DIY organizing, working with young asylum seekers and refugees in periods of transition to teaching at dance schools and festivals internationally. Their teaching practice is informed by life experiences and their work as a performer, training in martial arts, choir, sound healing using osteopathic tuning forks and certification in the GYROKINESIS® method.

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  • ☿ "The Singing Dancing garden felt like an inner exploration... Each week was a gentle peeling of a layer of my relationship with my voice & body, reestablishing a more somatic way of relating to both"

    Rune Djellabi

  • “The container Be weaves through sound and movement has inspired a renewed reverence for life and a deeper understanding of my place within this cosmic web. Their classes are deeply intentional, creating a space that has helped me remember how our bodies and voices constellate us across time. Working with Be has strengthened my relationship to those ancestors who came before and those yet to come. I am profoundly grateful, and cannot recommend their classes more highly!”

    Sara Sebti

  • “Be is a gifted teacher who through words and through their own depth of feeling-body connection brings the class into deep & rich places. I have experienced new and unexpected spinal mobility and ease through their gyrokinesis classes. I also love the combo of the fun-playful-deep vibes of the class Be creates.”

    Laurel Coop, Studio Ed