Summer 2022
Quality Performing Arts Education
in the Cowichan Valley
Quality Performing Arts Education
in the Cowichan Valley
Registration is NOW OPEN for Summer 2022
Weekly classes and workshops for youth and adults, and day camps for children age 4+
Registration is NOW OPEN for Summer 2022
Weekly classes and workshops for youth and adults, and day camps for children age 4+
Mission and Vision
Mission and Vision
Our Mission
Warmland Dance exists as a place of belonging where aspiring and professional artists come to learn and express life through dance and creative process. We elevate dance instruction to cultivate high-level technique, nourish creativity, and inspire modern learners to realize their highest human potential.
Our Vision
Warmland Dance is a global influencer in innovative movement exploration, development, and instruction.
Our Values
Community: We recognize and support one another as a diverse group of human beings with individual strengths. We nurture human connection, a sense of warmth, pride, and belonging.
Growth and Transformation: Human potential is realized at Warmland Dance. Opportunity, challenge and quality mentorship is offered to all learners in a safe environment fostering vulnerability, curiosity, creativity, striving, and strength of character.
Freedom: Joy is fundamental to dance as an art form emphasizing “process versus product”. Connection to self, others and our surroundings provides opportunities for free expression.
Structure and Technique: Careful attention and respect is paid to student readiness, dance foundations and classical technique. Unhurried learning processes, individualized goal-setting, clear assessment criteria and feedback provide an exceptional quality learning experience, measurable progression and notable student excellence.
Leadership: Robust values-based leadership, highly proficient administration, and a world-class teaching faculty forms our most diversely experienced, highly qualified dance studio organization. Sharing a passion for lifelong-learning, our team’s collaborative growth-mindset and commitment to excellent communication enables us to offer a holistic, modern, elevated arts education for the next generation of performing artists.
Testimonials
Testimonials
My kids had an absolutely wonderful time in class today. They are dying to come back!
-Bonnie Louden, Parent
It was very evident that the attitudes and educational perspective that informs your work is beautifully child-centered, and approaches what movement, body image and the spirit of performance can be, for maximizing the health and well-being of the young people you and your staff work with.
-Grandparent/Retired Teacher
The technique these dancers have is something to be proud of... great training. These dancers are so clean, and have such chemistry onstage, you can tell they love it.
-Justine Fraser, Cowichan Music Festival Adjudicator - Ballet
"Too often dance instruction focuses on sexualizing or trivializing children, and the framing of life. Your approach is refreshingly the opposite, and developmentally honours children. So, thank you for your supportive methods in engaging kids in the joy of movement and dance."
-Grandparent/Educator