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Discounted HDC Membership

12/16/2020

We have seen the struggles and resiliency of dancers, dance educators and healthcare professionals as you have adapted to a continually changing environment. We have watched you rise to the challenge of finding new ways to teach and take dance classes online, consult with clients, share performances virtually, and build community. We applaud your creativity and perseverance!

Healthy Dancer Canada is here to help you rebuild and reconnect. We are committed to giving back and helping support the Canadian dance sector as we venture forward. As such, we are offering a significant discount on our annual membership from December 16, 2020, through January 31, 2021. Save 50% on studio/clinic and individual Healthy Dancer Canada memberships by using the discount code welcometohdc50 when you register!

Your membership not only gives you access to practical resources for improving dance performance, reducing injuries, and handling stress but it also connects you with a network of dance healthcare providers and like-minded dance educators and artists who care about dancers' health and wellbeing. We invite you to join us in our efforts to connect the dance community and provide much needed resources that support dancers, dance teachers, and dance healthcare professionals to improve the health and wellbeing of ALL dancers.

Click the link below to register today (don't forget to use the discount code above).

Membership Registration

IADMS Dance Educator Award 2020

10/19/2020

A portrait of Donna

Congratulations to Donna Krasnow, winner of the 2020 IADMS Dance Educator Award! Dr. Krasnow is one of HDC's founding members and an internationally recognized dance educator, researcher and author. Congratulations!

Two HDC Founding Members Nominated for IADMS 2020 Dance Educator Award

9/22/2020

We are thrilled to announce that two of HDCs founding members, Donna Krasnow and Andrea Downie, are on the list of nominees for this years IADMS Dance Educator Award! Congratulations!! Check out the full list on IADMS Facebook page and below.

The IADMS Dance Educators' Committee is very excited to share the nominees for the 2020 Dance Educator Award! These 22 astounding educators were nominated by their colleagues and students for masterfully integrating principles of Dance Medicine and Science into their teaching practice and inspiring future generations of dance teachers to do the same. Nominators spoke passionately about these studio teachers, clinicians, healthcare providers, coaches, and classroom lecturers. Each of these professionals has devoted themselves to improving the health and performance of dancers through education and we thank them all for their service. The winner of the Dance Educator Award will be announced this October.

Please, join us in celebrating these educators:

Andrea Downie
Angela Pickard
Angelique Wilkie
Boglarka Simon-Hatala
Carrie Skony
Daan van den Akker
Donna Krasnow
Frey Faust
Hyp-Access (Audre Wirtanen & Laura Tuthall)
Katrina Edwards
Manuela Angioi
Rachel Fine
Roisin Cahalan
Sarah Kiely
Sarah Reis
Sarah Wilcoxon
Sonia Rafferty
Sujata Banerjee
Tiffany Stott
Vangeline
Wendy Timmons

IADMS Dance Educator Award; 22 Nominees

Statement on Racism & Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Resources

6/5/2020

Healthy Dancer Canada has issued a Statement on Racism as well as published a new resource, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Resources with a dance-specific focus. We invite our members and the wider dance community to share this resource, and are open to feedback on how we can improve both.

Please contact healthydancercanada@gmail.com and resources.healthydancercanada@gmail.com with your suggestions.

HDC statement on racism

Dancer Screening

10/29/2019

Interested in dancer screening? See our Dance Resources.

HDC members have access to the following screening tools and resources:

Pre-Professional Dancer Screen: Healthcare Professional Version
Pre-Season Dancer Screen: Dance Educator Screen -- RECENTLY UPDATED!
Dancer Screening Information

Become a member today for access to all of HDCs resources!

Photograph by Luca Papini Photography
Dancers from Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre

Board of Directors 2019

3/1/2019

We are delighted to introduce HDC's Board of Directors for 2019:
Jennifer Bezaire, Andrea Downie (Immediate Past-President), Nicole Hamilton, Sarah Kenny (Secretary), Louis Laberge-Côté, Jo-Anne La Flèche, Sara Lawson, Erika Mayall, Sandro Rajic, Karine Rathle (President) and Karen Sudds.

We would like to thank Nefeli Tsiouti for her contributions to the Board in 2018.

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.