​Vision

Healthy Dancer Canada envisions a dynamic community of dancers, dance educators, health professionals and researchers dedicated to promoting dancer health and wellness, optimizing performance, understanding and addressing the unique challenges facing the dance community, and creating a culture of healthy dance practice in Canada.

​Mission​

Healthy Dancer Canada’s mission is to foster and facilitate communication and collaboration among the dance community, health professionals and researchers. We endeavour to enhance the health, well-being and performance of all dancers and to be the Canadian leader in this effort.

​Values

Healthy Dancer Canada is committed to

• Advancement: Advancing the health, well-being, fitness and performance of dancers in Canada, grounded in current, evidence-based information.
• Community: Building community by
  • Fostering respect, understanding and knowledge-sharing among members of the dance community, including dancers and their families, dance educators and other dance professionals, dance researchers and health professionals.
  • Offering networking, leadership and volunteer opportunities.
• Education: Providing accessible and current evidence-based research, continuing education and professional development to the dance community and health professionals.
• Expertise: Being the leading experts in the health and wellness of Canadian dancers. 
• Leadership: Supporting and promoting healthy approaches to dance in Canada through ongoing initiatives.

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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.

​Annual Reports 

The Healthy Dancer Canada Annual Reports highlight our activities, successes and challenges.

HDC Annual Report 2020
HDC Annual Report 2019
​HDC Annual Report 2018
HDC Annual Report 2017
HDC Annual Report 2016
HDC Annual Report 2015
HDC Annual Report 2014

​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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