Our Studio also offers:

* Private Classes
* Community Performances
* Year End Shows
* Classes Mid-week and Saturdays
* 2 Studios with sprung floors
* Competitive Rates (Starting at 1 Hr. Class for 10 weeks for $92.00)
* Smaller Class Sizes

Class & Training Objectives

1. To keep classes small so that Teachers can conduct their classes giving more personalized attention to each child.
2. Train students with respect, enthusiasm, patience, compassion and knowledge.
3. Maintain a technical standard of dance in conjunction with enjoyment and fun.
4. To develop self-confidence.
5. To conduct classes with goals in mind with each individual attaining his or her own personal level of accomplishment.
6. Classes are designed to educate children in specific dance styles and techniques.
7. Help children discover creativity within themselves and to learn to express feelings and emotions openly through dance and acting.
8. Encourage children to realize that we are all individuals with different capabilities, achieving certain goals at various times in our development.  We must be patient with our personal physical and mental growth.
9. Work hard, have fun and try to be the best that you can be as people and dancers.
10. To take pride in individual and group accomplishments.
11. To cooperate together in our friendly atmosphere.
12. To develop good interpersonal skills with others maintaining respect and good manners.
13. Teach Life Skills such as respect, good manners, perseverance, patience, strong work ethics, time management, neatness, tidiness, goal setting, compassion, and a never give up attitude.
14. To develop the Love of Dance

 Studio Achievements

* B.C. Provincial Dance Festival Representatives & Champions
* R.A.D. Solo Seal Award Recipients
* High level of achievements at Chilliwack, Coquitlam, Surrey & Pacific West
  Dance Competitions
* Successful R.A.D. Exam results maintaining a high standard of dance in Graded
  & Vocational levels
* Brightened up a few Seniors days with our Charity Performances at Seniors
  Homes & Hospitals
* Students have gone on to dance professionally & become successful people in
  the teaching, medical, law enforcement & public work force
* Thrilled audiences with our year end productions which included just to
   mention a few: The Swan Princess, Snow White &The Seven Dwarfs,
   Cinderella, The Sleeping Princess, Peter Pan, Hansel & Gretel, Little Mermaid

Faculty

Director: Heather McBride (A.R.A.D.)
Registered teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance Advanced Dancers Certificate
Over 30 years of teaching experience
Attends R.A.D. Teaching Refresher Courses
Trained under the direction of: Sheila MacDonald, Bill McGrath, Mara McBirney, Marcia Caple, Ellen Andrews & Josephine Slater
Banff School of Fine Arts - intensive dance training program in Classical Ballet, Repertoire, Modern, Jazz, Pas de deux and Production
Modern Contemporary Dance Training - with Norbert Vesak - Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham & Ted Shawn disciplines
Jazz & Lyrical Jazz Training - with Eva Von Gencey of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Co. Jazz Division
Performed with:
Vivaldi Concert Dancers - E.Andrews, J. Slater & Norbert Vesak
Ballet Horizons - Morley Wiseman from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Co.
Vancouver Opera Society - Franklin White from the Royal Ballet Co. - England
Ozma’s StepOut - Community performances with fellow dancers and choreographers.