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.

Preschool Movement Explorers

Ages 3.5 - 5 years
SATURDAYS 1:00 - 1:30 pm
In a fun, playful environment children will be given the opportunity to leap, bound, skip, crawl, roll, somersault, move like animals and more.
Dance, tumbling and creative movement!
Encourage your child to develop a lifelong love of movement!

NO YEAR-END PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT.
 FEE:$100.00 January to June

Preschool Creative Dance

Ages 3 years+
TUESDAYS 3 - 3:30 pm

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 PER TERM

Preschool Ballet

Ages 3 years +
FRIDAY 9 - 9:30

Dancers begin to learn the rudiments of ballet movement using imagination and fun.

FEE:$400.00 SEPTEMBER TO JUNE

Ballet 1

Ages 4.5 years +
FRIDAY 9:30 - 10:15

FEE:$425.00 SEPTEMBER TO JUNE