​Vision

Healthy Dancer Canada envisions a dynamic culture that welcomes everyone to experience and share the art of dance in all its significance and greatness. We imagine a movement in which healthy practices honour and support the diverse roots, forms, and expressions of dance.


​Mission​

Healthy Dancer Canada's mission is to empower dancers and all who engage with the art of dance by nurturing a culture of wellness within a vibrant dancing community.


​Values

With a dancer-centered and sustainable approach, HDC values:
  • Wellness, safety, and care
    • We promote approaches, activities, and processes that protect and encourage the ongoing holistic health and wellbeing of individuals and groups.
  • Equity, diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility
    • We celebrate the many ways of being, knowing, learning, and dancing.
    • We are committed to positive experiences and outcomes for all. We strive:
      • to fairly distribute the organization’s material and non-material opportunities;
      • to create welcoming and supportive interactions, programs, policies, and practices that recognize, respect, and leverage diversity;
      • to remove barriers to participation in dance, our organization, and its endeavours.
  • Community and collaboration
    • We foster ecosystems that bring people together to share knowledge and resources as we address current issues and opportunities.
  • Integrity, accountability, and transparency
    • We recognize the importance of:
      • being open and honest;
      • being responsive and responsible to our dance community;
      • exposing complexities that underlie the decision-making of our organization.

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​Logo,​ Poster & Images

The dancing icon in our logo was created in 2012 from a sketch by founding member Andrea Downie and with graphics by Alessia Soppelsa. The figure was designed to represent all dancers (including all personal and sociocultural identities) and all dance forms. The colours surrounding the dancer symbolize our goal to have equal representation from dancers, dance educators, health professionals/researchers within our organization. Healthy Dancer Canada’s official poster and company of website dancers were created by Lisa Dickson in 2015 in the spirit of these original principles. In 2017, we added more dancers to the “company,” in an effort to better represent diverse body types and dance genres. We also updated the HDC logo with bolder text, while preserving the dancing icon.

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HDC Informational Brochure

View the HDC brochure.

​Bylaws & Election Information

The Dance Health Alliance of Canada, operating as Healthy Dancer Canada, is a federal not-for-profit organization incorporated by Corporations Canada. View our ByLaws.

See the information about our Election Process. ​

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