Dance Instructors
Daylan Braude
Daylan has been teaching Tap and Jazz at the Shadbolt Centre since 2000. In her youth, she danced and competed with various local studios; she continued her studies at SFU in the Contemporary Arts Program. After receiving her BFA in Modern Dance, Daylan explored new territory in Calgary with “Decidedly Jazz Danceworks” and “Youth Dance Unlimited”. Upon her return to BC, Daylan was involved with many local shows including 12 Minutes Max and Dancing on the Edge. Daylan currently teaches full-time in the lower mainland and continues to hone her craft by attending dance workshops in the off-season.Katie Brownhill
Katie is a graduate of SFU dance program and is now teaching ballet and yoga for the City of Burnaby. After graduation, Katie travelled to New York to dance in the Merce Cunningham intensive, and in the summer of 2007 travelled to Winnipeg to participate in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Teacher’s Seminar. When not teaching or training, Katie is rehearsing with dance collective 30Toes. During the 2006-07 season, 30Toes was awarded Artist in Residence at the Scotia Bank Dance Centre and completed an excellent year of creation and development.Heather Carpenter
Heather is a graduate of the National Ballet School Teacher Training Program and the London Contemporary Dance School in England, from which she holds a choreography certificate. She holds her Intermediate and Associate Diploma Cecchetti teaching degrees. Heather has been teaching in the Lower Mainland for the past eight years.Corinne Chepil
Corinne (a.k.a. Corinne Corinne the Dancing Machine/Queen) has taught a variety of dance and movement classes for over 25 years. She has studied ballet, modern, jazz, tap and circle dance, and is a graduate of the Dance Teacher Training Program (Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton) and SFU’s Dance Program. Corinne especially enjoys teaching and inspiring beginning students.
Salomé Diaz graduated from the Dance Program of the School Board of Education and National Institute for Fine Arts in Mexico City. She has been a freelance dancer and a dance instructor for over 20 years. Since 1992, she has worked and performed with Kokoro Dance Company, a butoh-based company under the direction of Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi, and taught dance at numerous dance schools and academies in the lower mainland.
Leslie Dyer
Leslie’s lifelong foray into dance has fuelled her passion for movement and life! She spent her youth at various dance studios, including the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Regina Modern Danceworks, and eventually earned a BFA degree in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University in Montreal. Leslie then experimented with professional dance and teaching in Montreal and Victoria before moving to Vancouver in 1994. She is enjoying teaching modern technique at the Shadbolt Centre and leading the Youth in Motion Junior Company as Artistic Director.
Jenni Higgins
Jenni finished her early training with the Kidco Training Company in Victoria as well as with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The Banff Centre for the Arts and Dancetheatre David Earle. In 2003 Jenni graduated from the University of Calgary with a B.A. in dance. She then made her way to London, England where she spent the next two years teaching and performing. Now back on the West Coast again, Jenni is excited to be teaching Tap and Ballet at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.Heather Kirkland
Heather is an independent dancer and teaches dance to children and teens in the Vancouver Lower Mainland. She trained and performed in the Arts Umbrella Dance Company and MainDance, and went on to graduate from the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. As a performer she has had the privilege of working with choreographers Julia Sasso, Andrew Gidday, John Ottmann and most recently, Wen Wei Wang, as well as many of Vancouver’s best emerging artists. She has also performed with LinkDance and has worked with the Jumpstart Apprenticeship Program. She is currently teaching modern dance and ballet, and is director of the Youth in Motion Senior company. Heather is excited to share her passion for performance and healthy technique with her students.Trevor Klushin
Trevor went to Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton where he received a Diploma in Dance Performance in 1992. He received the Evelyn Davis Scholarship for excellence in modern dance and choreography in 1993. He danced with Brian Webb Dance Co., Mile Zero Dance Co., and Ballet North. His chorography has been presented in the Cayman Islands, Canada, Brazil, Holland, and US. He has done independent films and commercials. A Creative Dance specialist, his passion is creating dances and teaching. Also known as Mr. Trevor by his students and their parents, he has been teaching his love of dance to young children at the Shadbolt Centre for many years.Karen Kobel
Karen has been dancing for the past 25 years, teaching for the past 13 years and performing. With a BFA in Dance Performance from East Carolina University, she has performed for various artists such as Mia Michaels, Jay Norman, Marjon Van Grunsven, Tomi Galaska, Mary Carbonaro, Peter Grey Terhune Presents on the Regal Princess and Crown Princess Cruise ships, Madora, and some other local artists. She is also a STOTT certified Pilates instructor. Karen has also studied with Lynn Simonson, Mary Carbonaro, Katiti King, all Simonson certified instructors.Jessica Lin
Inspired by Laban / Bartenieff Studies, Jessica believes in the connection between brain and body, how it is really about dancing with “your heart”, and that there is a strong mathematical aspect to the whole equation. She is a professional dancer, choreographer and dance instructor with a wide range of influences. She grew up in Taiwan and received a BA in dance from the Taiwan National University of Physical Education in 2000. She has performed professionally throughout Europe and Asia and taught in Taiwan and Canada since 1999. Jessica continues to pass on the passion of dance to the next generation.Natasha Lutz
Originally from Brampton Ontario, Natasha has been teaching people of all ages and stages since 2003. She is a graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre's Professional Training Program, where she learned from a number of renowned artists from Canada and abroad. Over the years Natasha has also enjoyed a wonderful performance career working with many amazingly talented people, and dancing on various stages throughout Canada. She loves sharing her passion for dance with her students from whom she is always learning and gaining inspiration, She is proud to be a part of the Shadbolt community.
Jeannine Miller
Jeannine Miller is a graduate from the dance teacher training program at Grant MacEwan College and a graduate from the PTI program at Main Dance. Jeannine worked as a dance teacher at the Shadbolt Center for the Arts for 13 years and was one of the artistic directors for the Youth in Motion Jr. Dance Company. Jeannine has worked as an independent dancer in Edmonton, Vancouver and Calgary and has twenty years experience teaching dance to students of all ages and levels including a term for the Calgary school board as an Artist in Residence. Jeannine has recently returned to Burnaby and the Shadbolt is thrilled to have her back!Jane Osborne
Jane holds a BFA in dance from SFU and is now pursuing a career as a contemporary dancer. Since graduating, Jane has worked with various artists such as Martha Carter (apprenticeship), Rob Kitsos and Chengxin Wei, during Dancing on the Edge, and at the Hong Kong Dance Festival. Jane recently apprenticed on a collaborative project by Alvin Tolentino and Peter Chin, she apprentices in an ongoing fashion with dance-theatre artist, Tara Cheyenne-Friedenberg, and most recently with Dancers Dancing. In March 2007, Jane completed her first dance film “Drive7”, which has screened at several festivals internationally. Jane teaches children of all ages in Ballet, Creative Movement, Jazz and Hip Hop — and she absolutely loves it!Donna Redlick is a Certified Movement Analyst from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies, a graduate from the dance program at Grant MacEwan College of Fine Arts (Edmonton) and a graduate from the University of Saskatchewan. She was the founder of Continuum Dance Company and artistic director of the Youth In Motion Dance Company for many years. Donna has also taught for MainDance, Vancouver School Board, as an assistant instructor for the Laban Program at Ryerson University, and as a sessional instructor at Simon Fraser University.
Marcia F W Jones
Marcia is passionate about dance and sharing it with adults, children and infants. She has over 10 years experience learning and practicing body-focused therapies and dance/movement. She has trained in Brain-Compatible Dance Education and Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT). She also holds a professional certificate in Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP). As a board member of Movement Matters Association, she is able to help build a community inspired by somatic approaches to healing and creativity. She also supports and participates in the community of dancers of Gabrielle Roth’s 5 Rhythms™.
Kimberly Tuson
Kim Tuson is a professional contemporary dancer who has enjoyed a successful career for over twenty years. Since graduating from Simon Fraser's Dance program she has danced with some of Vancouver's leading choreographers including, Jumpstart Performance Co, Kinesis Dance, DanStaBat, Joe Ink, and Wild Excursions. She is currently working with Tara Cheyenne Performance and Raven Spirit Dance co as well as creating and performing in her own work. Kim is also certified in Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis (Yoga for dancers) as well as Japanese Acupressure. She is excited to be back at the Shadbolt to share with the students of the modern dance program and the Continuum dancers.
