Dance Projects

Welcome to Dance at Collingwood! We are excited to be dancing together again at Morven! Check back here for our new projects throughout this school year and please feel free to browse our work from lockdown in the Spring of 2020.

Holiday Dances 2020

Check out the new creations from the dancers based on some fun and fabulous holiday classics!

Click the link to see what we we were up to in (and out!) of the dance studio in December!

Remembrance Day Assembly Dance FINAL NEW.mp4

Remembrance Day Dance 2020

The Collingwood Dance Company created this video as our tribute to Remembrance Day. Donning red masks in honour of the poppy, the dancers performed in a distanced way...searching for communication. We included elements of sign language to allow us to say more than we feel we can right now in our masked state.

Thriller Dance Company 1.mp4

Happy Halloween 2020!

Turn out the lights and join in on our spooky vibes as the Dance Company celebrates our Halloween style with you!

Welcome to the first ever Spring Dance Showcase on Screen! Stepping away from the stage and towards an online format was an exciting prospect. Please enjoy the performances from the classes and companies!

Dance at Collingwood, like the rest of the world, took a turn in the end of this school year. Where we would normally be preparing and presenting our Spring Dance Showcase we paused, took a step back and into ourselves and began to create our art in a new way. Fuelled by a hope to continue manifesting dance work, feel one with our community and still truly connect with an audience, we began to develop projects from home, and yet ultimately, also from the heart. Our dance family reflected in the written word, honoured and learned from dance happenings around the world, danced in our homes “together” and built videos to make a new version of a show online. Lessons were around every corner. Teaching and learning dance became a whole new adventure. Reaching out as a performer through the computer screen presented a phenomenal challenge. Though, as true artists we make. And we discover. It is in the playing and the doing that we find our breath, our solace and then our voice. To dance is to embody our feelings and to attempt to lead others, our audience, to believe in the importance of awakening and acknowledging their own truths. This time of exploration in a new realm has been an awakening. We now notice anew. We absorb on a different plane. We have danced ourselves into new understanding. And we step forward with care. Dancing all the while.

Right now I find myself stuck between whether I am truly growing or if I have taken a pause. In normal times I feel like the way I mentally grow is through being around other people, going on adventures, and having new experiences. However, during this pandemic I have started to learn other ways I can grow, like being outside, spending special time with my siblings that I normally wouldn't have and just doing everything a little slower to see the beauty of the simple things. When I take a step back and look at how dramatically my life has changed in only one month, it makes me think of how messy but amazing life is. It is very unpredictable, but so is growing. It happens when you least expect it.

To me, this photo connects to dance through the feeling of relaxation and peace I get from looking at it, personally, Dance is a way of clearing my mind, and having some fun. Dancing gives me a feeling of relaxation that I can only describe through this image, a hot summer sunset at a cabin on the water, no noise, no people, just you and the world. This is how dance truly makes me feel.