Kristen Lewis is a dancer, yoga teacher, and performer with a lifetime's worth of movement training behind her---from competitive gymnastics as a child, to intensive dance training at the Halifax Ballet Theatre as a young teenager, through to a successful career as a distance runner in her late teens and early twenties. Kristen began putting on shows for her friends and family at a young age, and has never really stopped. Her first play, David and Davida, appeared in 2002 at the Atlantic Fringe Festival, to rave reviews. She has since created a number of plays, performance pieces, and dance dramas as part of an ongoing engagement in the creative process of dance and theatre.

Kristen is pleased to be returning to the Salt Spring Arts Academy for a second year, sharing her love of movement and performance with the next generation. Kristen is a compassionate, attentive teacher whose goal is to instill in students a natural love of movement, while encouraging them to develop the confidence, self-discipline, and sound alignment habits that create the framework for a healthy, lifelong engagement in dance. She regularly enhances her skills by attending continuing education workshops and classes, both on and off-island.

Kristen is teaching Creative Dance, Movement Explorers, Acro-Dance, as well as Pre-school and Ballet 1.

Creative Dance

STARTS January 10TH

Tuesdays

Ages 3 + from 3 to 3:30

Dance essentials with a focus on creativity and fun, as the basis for fostering a lifelong love of movement.
The class will encourage your child to discover new ways of moving while developing rhythm, strength, balance, flexibility, as well as listening and focusing skills. For girls and boys.

FEE $150.00

Ages 5 and up from 3:45 to 4:30

This class builds on the skills acquired in preschool Creative Dance---with a continued focus on  cultivating creativity, and fostering a lifelong love of movement. The classes begin with basic dance exercises aimed at developing body-awareness, spatial awareness, and rhythmic sense, along with strength, balance, and flexibility. We then move on to exploratory games where children are encouraged to discover new ways of expressing themselves through movement. We work together to create routines, some of which are presented at the Christmas and year-end recitals.

FEE $200.00

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