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HDC on CIUT 89.5 FM

8/13/2018

HDC Conference Coordinator, Andrea Downie, will be featured on Turn Out Radio on Wednesday August 15th. Tune it to hear all 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 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.

HDC Elections 2017

10/24/2017

Dance, Physiotherapy & HDC

5/20/2017

HDC Past President 2012, Heather Finn, spoke with Guelph Dance about dancing, physiotherapy and Healthy Dancer Canada! Read the interview here.

New Partnership with HK

3/15/2017

Healthy Dancer Canada and Human Kinetics are partners with a mutual vision and goal to provide dance and health professionals with access to valuable resources. As Human Kinetics associates, HDC is able to offer our members exceptional rebates on books and posters from HK through the Newsletter Book Club. We also feature books for dance and health professionals on our website. Check out the new Books page under the Dance Resources tab!

HDC Introduces New Website Dancers!

2/16/2017

Healthy Dancer Canada is pleased to introduce the newest HDC website dancers! Our website dancers (more than 20 now) and the HDC poster were created by HDC member, Lisa Dickson.