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Chapter 38
DANCE MASTERS OF CANADA
A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF CERTIFIED DANCE EDUCATORS
TEACHER REJUVENATION
Dance Masters of Canada is pleased to welcome the following faculty to our 2024 Teacher Rejuvenation. This event welcomes registered teachers for an engagement of education, restoration, and connection.
Sunday, November 3rd, 2024
Saturday November 2nd, 2024
Rythum Plus Dance Company
613 Hwy 8, Stoney Creek, ON.
Event schedule: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Registration & check-in: 4:30-5:00 p.m. (View full schedule below).
Alexandra Herzog
Next Up Founder and lead coach
Alexandra Herzog, is a certified Life Coach and Performer Mindset coach. With a background as a professional dancer, actor and choreographer, Alexandra founded the Dancer Mindset program to provide performers with the mindset tools necessary to perform at their best.
Next Up has helped many competitive and professional dancers who previously crumbled under pressure and lacked belief in themselves, to emerge as empowered and confident artists, ready to own their training, performances and potential! After working together, dancers are equipped with the mindset tools necessary to coach themselves through high pressure situations! Dancer Mindset coaching helps competitive dancers of all ages reach their full potential with calm, clarity and confidence.
RONALD A. TAYLOR
Artistic Director, Ronald Taylor Dance
Ronald A. Taylor is the Artistic Director of the Toronto-based company Ronald Taylor Dance founded in 1993.
After leaving Trinidad/Tobago in 1986, home to the renowned Astor Johnson Repertory Dance Theatre and Taylor’s mentor/teacher, Ronald moved swiftly to pursue his dream and enrolled in the Juilliard School Dance division in New York. His stay with Dance Theatre of Harlem afforded him two prestigious awards; The DTH Scholarship Award, and the Maxwell and Muriel Bluck Scholarship Award.
Taylor’s move to Canada in the early ’90’s and eventual MA from York University, catapulted him to a “leading force in dance”. Over the course of many years, Ronald Taylor Dance has premiered many thought-provoking productions. Remaining true to his Caribbean roots, his cutting-edge work fuses Caribbean Folk, Modern and traditional Ballet, in a distinctive style which Taylor best describes as “Contemporary Caribbean” Ronald is presently on the teaching staff at York University.
www.ronaldtaylordance.org (Under construction)
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Donna Bender
Founder and Director of Centre Stage Dance Studio
Donna Bender is the Founder and Director of Centre Stage Dance Studio in New Hamburg, ON
and former Kitchener location, Unlock Unleash Control by CSDS. With over 38 years of industry
experience, she has worked with thousands of young dancers, and many of her students have
gone on to pursue professional careers in the arts.
Donna is an Advanced Member, Master Teacher and Examiner for the Society of Classical
Ballet (Vaganova Method), a Full Stage Member of the Canadian Dance Teachers Association,
a certified Pilates Instructor in matwork and equipment through the PhysicalMind Institute/Body Harmonics, as well as a Health & Wellness Coach through the Eben Pagan training program.
Over the years, Donna has adjudicated for numerous dance competitions. Since 2004, she has
worked closely with Master Teacher, Paula Morgan, in technique and foundations for dancers,
completing her full teacher certification in 2017.
Out of her passion to empower dancers with a safe and solid technical foundation, Donna
co-created Groundforce Technique in 2020. She continues to guest teach students, as well as
train and certify dance educators across North America in the Groundforce Technique method,
sharing this knowledge in caring for and inspiring the next generation.
Join Dance Masters of Canada at our upcoming Teacher Rejuvenation on Saturday November 2nd, 2024, at Rythum Plus Dance Company. Registrations can be facilitated via Dancebug.
