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Healthy Dance Certificates - Saskatoon

4/12/2019

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Join HDC Immediate Past President, Andrea Downie, for a Healthy Dance Practice Certificate course this June in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Register today!
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Safer Spaces in Canadian Dance

10/11/2018

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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.
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New HDC Workshops

10/9/2018

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​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! 

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NEW HDC Pre-Season Dancer Screen: Dance Educator Version

10/4/2018

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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. 
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2018 HDC Research Award - Dr. Sarah Kenny

9/30/2018

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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.
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2018 HDC Lifetime Achievement Award - Dr. Donna Krasnow

9/29/2018

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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.
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Updated HDC Resource & Companion Tool

9/6/2018

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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.
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Call for Proposals - 10 Anniversary HDC Annual Conference 2018

4/9/2018

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The Silence After the Applause

3/17/2018

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HDC member, serving on the Board of Directors, Jo-Anne La Flèche's authored The Silence After the Applause, recently published on The Dance Current online magazine. Read it here!
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New HDC Resource

12/31/2017

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The HDC Resources Committee is pleased to share one of our new 2017 resources, A Guide to Neutral Pelvis, Core Support, and Trunk Stabilization, authored by one of HDC's founding members, Donna Krasnow, and co-author Virginia Wilmerding. It features the new look of HDC's resources, designed by Michael Ripley of Talented Mr. Find it on the Dance Resources page.
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