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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!

HDC at New Blue Festival in Toronto

5/25/2018

Join facilitators Andrea Downie, Nicole Hamilton, and Kiah Brubacher-Cressman for a Healthy Dancer Canada workshop, Optimizing Dance Performance, at the New Blue Festival in Toronto, Monday June 4th 2018, 4:00pm - 6:00pm.

Through movement and discussion, this workshop for dancers and teachers will look at the many physical and psychological tools available to help dancers optimize dance performance in the studio and on the stage. Topics include physical preparation and readiness, injury prevention and management, and psychological aspects of training and performance that contribute to dance excellence.

Summer 2018 Teacher Courses with Donna Krasnow

3/15/2018

RAD teachers receive CPD hours for the C-I Training courses!

Workshop: Training for Maximizing Performance

12/27/2017

Inica Dance Industries is hosting a health workshop on January 21, 2018 from 3-6 PM at Winchester Street Theatre. Guest speakers and HDC founding members Andrea Downie and Dr. Bonnie Robson will focus on supplementary training, psychological training, and more. Open to the general public. RAD teachers receive 3 hrs CPD. Visit http://www.inicadance.com/register-for-classes-and-workshops?platform=hootsuite.

Free Arts & Sports Medicine Talk in Toronto

10/11/2017

Continuing Professional Development for Dance Teachers - Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Ottawa

7/12/2017

Royal Academy of Dance Canada selects two EnhanceDance courses to offer to Dance Teachers in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon & Ottawa! These courses are open to all Dance Teachers, and RAD Registered teachers can claim Time Valued CPD hours for attending. Andrea Downie, President of Healthy Dancer Canada and Director of EnhanceDance, will present:

Multisensory Teaching Methods to Enhance Dance Skill Learning (full day)
Enhancing Turnout (half day)

For information and to register visit https://www.radcanada.org/study/cpd/cpd-activities/find-a-cpd-course

Continuing Professional Development for Dancers and Teachers

6/1/2017

June 22 to 25, 2017 is the annual meeting of The Réseau d'enseignement de la Danse (RED) https://red-danse.ca/evenement/rencontre-red-2017/ (french only). This continuous professional development for dance teachers will once again gather great teachers who will share their knowledge with dancers and teachers from around Québec. HDC Vice President Karine Rathle will be giving a workshop on warm ups and cool downs, valuable information on safe teaching practices for dancers of all genres.

Level 1 C-I Training Teacher Course & Certification - Toronto

4/2/2017

Healthy Dancer Canada is pleased to endorse the Level 1 C-I Training Teacher Course & Certification in Toronto, July 29-Aug 3, 2017.

Safe Dance Practice Workshop Series - Toronto

3/22/2017

Healthy Dancer Canada is pleased to endorse the upcoming workshop series, Safe Dance Practice, in Toronto this spring.

HDC at PAMA Regional Meeting

2/10/2017

HDC members will be attending and presenting at the PAMA regional meeting February 11-12 at the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. If you are in the Toronto area, get your tickets. It is shaping up to me an amazing event!