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For BCTF Teachers, the conference fee includes:
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membership to the BC Dance Educators’ Association PSA
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access to the members-only section of the website
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admission to the conference, including:
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access to recordings of all conference sessions
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chance to win a door prize
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Student teachers, retirees/EOCs/FTE<.5, subscribers (non-BCTF members), dance studio teachers, and private school teachers are welcome and encouraged to attend as well.
Early Bird rates are applicable until September 25, 2021.
Regular rate apply until 10pm until October 21, 2021.
For the conference schedule please scroll through the image gallery to the left or click here to download a copy.
Clinician details & workshop information can be found below.
$40
$50
Street Dance
(All Levels)
Carlo Atienza
Workshop Description Coming Soon
Afro-Fusion (All Levels)
Amanda Okafor
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
Afrofusion is a blend of dance styles and grooves that come from the continent of Africa. Focusing mainly on the Western, Central and Southern regions, this 90 minutes workshop will explore different social dances from both a historical and modern context in relation to African culture. Participants are encouraged to acknowledge the cultural significance of each region in order to properly share learned material with their own students.
Rooted Jazz Dance (Secondary)
Joanne Baker
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
Jazz dance, at its core, is born of African American resilience, creativeness and community with influence from the many voices of African ethos. This workshop will push educators to physically embrace the true foundations of jazz dance (spirit, community, musical connection, grounded execution, freedom of the torso, improvisation) in collaboration with discussion around the de-colonization of your jazz practice. Time will also be spent exploring various thru-roads in incorporating European aesthetics and codified jazz forms responsibly.
Pow Wow Glow (All Levels)
Shyama Priya
We begin our class with yoga. Yoga means union and this brings together our breath with movement. When our breath and movement are working together this facilitates for the release of tension we maybe carrying or holding onto within our body. The way we breath can tire us or energize us. This will warm up our body to learn the different pow wow dance styles. The facilitator will share pieces of their regalia and the meaning behind each of the dances. The steps from each style will build strength in different parts of your body. At the end of our session we will close with a meditation/mindful breathing to gain a deeper awareness of self. Yoga, pow wow, and meditation, together are the healing medicine of movement and stillness.
Body Positivity (All Levels)
Gillian Goerzen
What is Body Positivity? And why is it so important? In this session we're going to go beyond the buzzword to explore what taking a "body positive" approach means in practice and how we can create a more body positive environment for our students in the classroom and beyond.
Gillian Goerzen is a Body Positive health + fitness coach and author who is passionate about helping women ditch Diet Culture and reclaim their time, energy and JOY for living a healthy lifestyle. She has a degree in Kinesiology and is currently pursuing her Masters in Counselling Psychology.
Jive Open Work (Intermediate / Secondary)
Dale Neale
Workshop Description Coming Soon
Connecting Creative Dance with Curriculum (K-7)
Get your students moving! This interactive workshop focuses on integrating dance across subject areas for the elementary school population. Participants will be guided through embodied and artistic ways of understanding curricular concepts in Science, Math, Language Arts, and Social Studies - with additional attention paid to children’s literature as a springboard into creative dance.
Participants will leave with a practical knowledge base for connecting dance with the core curriculum providing joyful, creative, holistic learning experiences for their students. Please be prepared to move, work in break-out rooms, and share!
** In advance of the workshop, please go out and find an interesting rock to bring to the class (any size, shape etc)**
Race & the Dance World (All Levels)
Dr. Henry Daniel
Workshop Description Coming Soon
Contemporary (Secondary)
Taylor Hunt
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
Contemporary expression often reflects many aspects of our lives including but not limited to our deepest emotional ties to political climate, cultural environment, societal influences etc. Participants are encouraged to honour where Contemporary Dance originated and reflect about how it has come to evolve into the sub-genres of contemporary movement we see today. How can we create a safe space for dancers to be open-minded, free-thinkers that want to create movement poetry that speaks to their current life experiences?