Are you ready for a Holiday Story Time? Grab your pillows and blankets and enjoy the book “Dashing Through the Snow: A Canadian Jingle Bells” by Helaine Becker. Join our volunteer Kelly and a wild cast of Canadian characters as they take over the Christmas holidays to the familiar tune of "Jingle Bells”! Don't forget [...]
We know this has been a difficult year so we’ve decided to run special events throughout the month of December to lift our dancers’ spirit and keep our community virtually connected! All our present and past dancers, volunteers and staff can join these events for FREE! Everyone Can Dance with Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli When: Part [...]
The Dance Ability Movement offers classes for dancers of all abilities in a safe, inclusive, and fun environment! Qualified instructors and Occupational Therapists (OT) who have a passion for dance and celebrating differences lead engaging virtual and in-person classes that provide dancers with the opportunity to connect, be physically active, and learn new moves! We [...]
If you are interested in offering a Dance Ability Movement Virtual Workshop to your community, or with your own group of friends, please contact us for more information: contact@danceabilitymovement.com. We are happy to work with you to arrange a workshop to meet the needs of your dancers and your organization. Check out our Virtual Dance [...]
In this post, as part of our 2020 World OT Day celebration, we would like to recognize Miss Mara, one of our new OTs who joined our team this season! We hope you enjoy it! Don’t miss tomorrow’s interviews with Miss Amanda and Miss Nadia! How you’ve been reimagining participation in occupations throughout your career? [...]
Continuing with our 2020 World OT Day celebration posts, today we are sharing with you an interview with Miss Elyse, one of our wonderful OTs! We hope you enjoy it! Stay tuned for the next interviews! How you’ve been reimagining participation in occupations throughout your career? To me, being an occupational therapist means using a [...]
Every year, the World Federation of Occupational Therapists creates a campaign to celebrate World Occupational Therapy Day, which takes place on October 27th. The 2020 campaign theme is ‘Reimagine Doing’ and the main goal is to celebrate the expertise of occupational therapy for reimagining participation in occupations that provide value and meaning to everyday life. [...]
We’ve been trying to find ways to better support our dance community and contribute to the positive health and well-being of our dancers and families during these challenging times. Therefore, we’ve made a few changes to our programming to offer virtual drop-in classes to our dancers who want to keep dancing with us but can’t [...]
If you are a DAM dancer, a DAM dancer’s sibling who dances or a volunteer who volunteers in other DAM classes and answered YES to the question above, then our Dance Ability Performance Crew classes might be a great fit for you! Our Performance Crew gathers virtually for choreography classes only, once a week, to [...]
Our last season looked a little different for everyone, especially for our Performance Crew that didn’t get to “perform” on a stage. But nothing stopped this amazing crew from dancing together. The challenges and change sparked new creativity and our dancers performed their hearts out from home - and created our first video performance - [...]
