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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.

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.

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.

New Members-Only Resource

6/24/2018

Members now have access to a new set of HDC resources (to remain a members-only privilege). Visit the Members page of the website to see the new Performance Profiling resources available to members, including Introduction to Performance Profiling by HDC President Karine Rathle and Board Member Sarah Kenny.

HDC Conference Committee Looking for Members

2/10/2018

The HDC Conference Committee is looking for members to join the committee to help with the organization of our 10th Annual Conference 2018 in Toronto this fall! If you are interested in joining this committee, contact conference.healthydancercanada@gmail.com.

HDC Announce Board of Directors 2018

1/15/2018

We are delighted to introduce to HDC's Board of Directors 2018:

Jennifer Bezaire, Andrea Downie (Immediate Past-President, Treasurer), Nicole Hamilton, Sarah Kenny (Secretary), Jo-Anne La Flèche, Sara Lawson, Erika Mayall, Sandro Rajic, Karine Rathle (President 2018-2020), Karen Sudds and Nefeli Tsiouti.

We would like to thank David Outevsky for his contributions to the Board in 2017.

Toward a Scope of Practice [of Dance Teachers]

11/30/2017

HDC President Andrea Downie's most recent article, Toward a Scope of Practice [of Dance Teachers], was just published in Dance International magazine's Winter 2017 issue, page 38. The article posits that dance teachers have a responsibility "to know and understand the extent of their expertise and to operate within those limits." On shelves now!

(Downie with dancers from Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre. Photo: Deborah Lundmark)

A New Look for HDC

11/20/2017

HDC has update our logo! We kept the same icon, a figure designed to represent every dancer (male/female, young/mature, professional/recreational) and all dance forms, but we updated the font.