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Elections 2018 - Call for Applications/Nominations

11/1/2018

Healthy Dancer Canada is looking to fill the following positions in 2019:

Officers: Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer
Directors (1 Director)
Members for all of our committees, particularly the Conference, Grant Writing, Membership, Newsletter, and Outreach

Details can be found by visiting the "Committees" page on the website, as well as at the bottom of the "About Us" to view our bylaws and election process.

Elections Timeline:

November 23 - Nominations and candidate applications due
December 1 - Candidate biographies emailed to all members. Online voting begins (each member is entitled to one vote)
December 30 - All officers and directors shall be elected by the membership of HDC by a majority of the members. Term of office is one year.

We value our members and their contributions. We hope you will consider a leadership role or serving on one of our HDC committees. Please share this Call at your discretion.

2017 Annual Report

10/19/2018

The Healthy Dancer Canada 2017 Annual Report is now available. Read about HDC's many successes in 2017. Highlights include:
- updated HDC logo
- new members of the HDC dance "company", representing more diversity in body types and dance genres
- HDC's Financial Assistance Program
- newsletter Book Club
- Calgary Conference successes
- growing membership
- professionally designed resources, including the new 2017 resource Core Support, Neutral Pelvis and Trunk Stabilization
- change to the fiscal year-end

Click on the image to read the report.

Safer Spaces in Canadian Dance

10/11/2018

Healthy Dancer Canada is a signatory to the Statement on Safer Spaces in Canadian Dance, along with other Dance Services Organizations across Canada. Read the Statement, and other resources, at Canadian Dance Assembly's Safer Spaces page, www.cda-acd.ca/en/about-us/safer-spaces.

New HDC Workshops

10/9/2018

Healthy Dancer Canada is pleased to offer a broad selection of eleven NEW workshops for the dance community on topics that focus on improving dancer health and wellbeing, training, and performance. All of the workshops can be adapted to suit a specific audience including dancers, teachers, rehearsal directors, choreographers, health professionals, and more. HDC’s workshop content will fit your organization’s unique and specific needs. Please contact us at healthydancercanada@gmail.com for more information, and to organize a workshop in your area!

NEW HDC Pre-Season Dancer Screen: Dance Educator Version

10/4/2018

The HDC Dancer Screening Committee is pleased to announce the release of the NEW Pre-Season Dancer Screen: Dance Educator Version, now available to members on the Members Dance Resources page.

2018 HDC Research Award - Dr. Sarah Kenny

9/30/2018

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Kenny, Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, recipient of 2018 HDC Research Award. This is award is granted for her research, Sleep Quality and Self-Reported Health Problems in Pre-Professional Dancers: Are they associated?, in recognition of research quality and significance to Healthy Dancer Canada’s mission to foster and facilitate communication and collaboration among the dance community, health professionals and researchers, with the aim to enhance the health, well-being and performance of all dancers.

2018 HDC Lifetime Achievement Award - Dr. Donna Krasnow

9/29/2018

Dr. Donna Krasnow, one of Healthy Dancer Canada's founding members, was honoured at the Healthy Dancer Canada (HDC) 10th Anniversary Conference 2018 with the first HDC Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Krasnow is Professor Emerita of Dance in the Department of Dance at York University in Toronto. She has a distinguished career as a performer, choreographer, educator, author, and researcher. She was the founder of both the York Dance Ensemble (Toronto) and Dance Source (San Francisco), where she was also Artistic Director of it's resident company Möbius. She has taught dance and dance conditioning extensively in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan. She specializes in teacher training courses and workshops, and has certified teachers across North America in the conditioning system she created, C-I Training (conditioning-with-imagery training). Dr. Krasnow also specializes in dance science research, concentrating on injury prevention, conditioning for dancers, and motor learning and motor control. She has published numerous articles in distinguished journals, and educational resources for organizations such as HDC and the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS). She is the co-author of Conditioning with Imagery for Dancers with dance artist Jordana Deveau, co-author of Motor Learning and Control for Dance: Principles and Practices for Performers and Teachers with dance educator and research professor Dr. Virginia Wilmerding, and the co-editor of Dancer Wellness with Dr. Virginia Wilmerding. Healthy Dancer Canada would like to thank Dr. Krasnow for her service, and to recognize her outstanding contributions to dance education, dance science, and dancer health and wellness.

Safe in Dance International (SiDI) Survey

9/19/2018

Calling all dance teachers! Please help HDC member and partner Safe in Dance International with their international survey. They want to find out how dance teachers/practitioners integrate healthy dance principles into their everyday teaching practice if, indeed, they feel these principles are valuable at all. Click the link below to participate.https://goo.gl/forms/mnLSnP7vA4kyzaKd2

Updated HDC Resource & Companion Tool

9/6/2018

The Resources Committee is pleased to announce that the English version of the resource, Dancers and the Art of Stress Management, and its companion tool, 10 Stress Management Tools for Your Dance Bag, have recently been redesigned and updated. See these, and our other resources, on the Open Dance Resources page.

HDC on CIUT 89.5 FM

8/15/2018

HDC Conference Coordinator Andrea Downie was featured on Turn Out Radio, interviewed by HDC Board member Nicole Hamilton, on Wednesday August 15, 2018. Listen below to hear about the upcoming 10th Anniversary Healthy Dancer Canada Conference 2018 in Toronto this September 28-30.

The show airs at 9 a.m. EST on CIUT 89. 5 FM. For those who are not in the Toronto area, the show can be streamed live, weekly, at www.ciut.fm.