CDPA Centre for Dance & the Performing Arts

CDPA’s Framework for Dance Education includes Foundations level classes, Progressive Curriculum tracks, and Recreational classes. Our approach to dance education supports the cross-disciplinary study of dance in support of the whole child, integrates academic enrichment, and uses dance as a therapeutic tool to support the social-emotional learning losses of the COVID-19 experience and restore a sense of self-confidence and community bonds! We continue to follow protocols as needed and may revert back to temporary mask usage to limit exposure to communal sicknesses that typically interrupt activities!

Our classes are Dance-Focused Integrated Arts Experiences, using Dance in a variety of genres, to spark the students’ creative impulses to develop ideas, choreograph, design, direct, write and produce action-based movement expressions, performance art, and dance. In addition to dance technique, the areas of art, music, creative writing, arts-integrated academics, functional kinesiology, health, and nutrition may be incorporated into our weekly classes. The progressive curriculum at CDPA, designed and detailed nearly 28 years ago embraces these concepts in order to apply emerging best practices.