Dancing Through the Coronavirus
Today, Jade and I finished leading our first Facebook Live Dance Class, with our friends at Halton Down Syndrome Association to celebrate National Dance Week! It’s a strange time to be celebrating National Dance Week. As dancers, we are used to engaging with our bodies, through movement and interaction with our environment as well as those around us. Dancers love performing. Performing traditionally involves a stage in a theatre; a theatre that is meant to hold hundreds to thousands of people! It’s a funny thought right now, considering I haven’t left my house in a month. Right now, because of [...]
Dance is a universal language – Interview with Hinano Toda
Hinano Toda, our second international student, and first from the other side of the globe, who volunteered with us this season, is living proof that dance is a universal language. Hinano is from Japan and came to Canada to further her language studies. Although Hinano could speak only a few words in English when she first joined The Dance Ability Movement, it didn’t prevent her from doing a fantastic job as a volunteer. “Through dance, Hinano was able to express herself, connect with our dancers and be a part of our community”, says Mallory Ryan, The Dance Ability Movement Director [...]
Week 5 of our #KeepDancingChallenge – Grab your love ones and just follow after us!
We absolutely love this week’s #KeepDancingChallenge song! Here are some clues: you will need to get real loose, get comfortable, grab your loved ones and just follow after our awesome dancers, volunteers and teachers! Did you guess it? Let’s dance and have some fun with “The Git Up” by Blanco Brown. Check out the video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/ccUnx8TrBmM Let’s give a round of applause to our dancers, volunteers and teachers for creating such a FUN choreography!
Week 4 of our #KeepDancingChallenge – Let your inner dancer shine!
Do you feel better when you are DANCING? If you answered YES, you can’t miss this week’s #KeepDancingChallenge video. We will let our inner dancer shine with “Better When I’m Dancing" by Meghan Trainor, song chosen by two of our dancers from our Alliston location. A heartfelt thank you to our amazing volunteers, dancers and teachers who are submitting choreography videos so that everyone can keep dancing together at home. Check out the video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/r2pEPegec5U Make sure you watch it until the end! Miss Jade and Miss Mallory have a surprise for you! We hope you [...]
Welcome to week 3 of our #KeepDancingChallenge: “Some Things Never Change” from Frozen 2 movie!
Welcome to week 3 of our #KeepDancingChallenge! This week we’ve chosen a song from the new Frozen 2 movie: “Some Things Never Change”. Even though we are going through a lot of changes right now, it is important to remember that we have each other and we can keep dancing at home. We realize now more than ever the power of our community. Thank you to our amazing volunteers and dancers who are submitting choreography videos so that everyone can keep dancing together at home. Check out the video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/xSzdMOiTTeU We hope you sing, dance along [...]
Congratulations to Nicole Teplin, our Volunteer of the Month for March!
Although this is Nicole's first year with the Dance Ability Movement, her enthusiasm, attention to detail, and willingness to jump into unpredictable situations make us feel as though she's been on our team for years. Nicole brings a wealth of energy and light to our studio. She is consistently seen taking initiative in the class to support the teacher, implementing different techniques to enhance participation, and celebrates all the successes of our dancers no matter how "small" they may appear. Nicole brings genuine passion to our Dance Ability classes and it is clear that she has a love for working [...]