Dance

Our Dance Program

Arts Umbrella Dance is a vanguard of developing relevant and wide-reaching dance arts and education. Our holistic and integrative approach is unique, nurturing young dancers to achieve their full potential.

Our Dance Program graduates go on to perform with some of the world’s most prestigious companies. Arts Umbrella students are applauded as valuable company members for their maturity and understanding of the tenets of professional dance.

The Arts Umbrella Dance Program has fostered integrity and inspired creativity in a generation of performers. And that growing legacy moves us forward.

Visit our program pages below for more information.

Admissions and Registration

Arts Umbrella’s Dance programs range from ages 2 to 22 and admissions requirements vary.

Learn more about the registration or admissions process for our programs and whether your program requires an audition.

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Program Areas

Ages 2-6

General Dance Program

Professional Training Program

Summer Dance Intensives

Post-Secondary Programs

Arts Umbrella Dance Company

Outstanding instructors

Arts Umbrella’s exceptional faculty members are dance artists who have achieved great success in their careers. Their commitment shows in each class, as they collaborate to further the level and standard of dance. Each instructor’s unique expertise strengthens the program foundation in classical ballet, jazz, and contemporary. Our program also offers opportunities to perform world-class choreography, and work with local and international guest artists.

Our curriculum

Our Dance Program commits to every dancer, from first dance class through elementary, secondary, and into post-secondary schooling. Unique, rigorous, and supportive, the program offers challenges in order to develop the tools needed for success in and out of the studio. The curriculum balances physical development with emotional and intellectual growth, allowing each dancer to build confidence and fully realize his or her own potential. We provide a dance education that is life-changing, having an impact long after graduation.

Arts Umbrella Dance Fundraisers

Each year we host a number of fundraisers to help support our programs and performances.

Interested in donating? Learn more here!

Instructors

All Instructors

Artemis Gordon

Penelope Boyse

Ackerley Cooper

Katrina Cruickshank

Livona Ellis

Lina Fitzner

Maddy Gilbert

Sakiko Januki

Marquita Lester

Sabra Perry

Ashley Sanderson

Lynn Sheppard

Lesley Telford

Chengxin Wei

Jenifer Zschoerper

Zenon Zubyk

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Fundraising Events

Arts Umbrella donors, volunteers, and sponsors share the same belief: that arts education can transform a child’s life. Whether attending an event, making a monthly gift, or donating time, our supporters are vital to helping us inspire creativity for good through the arts.