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Dance Mania 08
Friday, April 4 to Sunday, April 6, 2008
Click
here for competition results.
Click
here for Award winners.
Adjudicator
- Margaret Stephen
 Margaret
Stephen received her dance training in Ballet, Tap and Highland dance
in Scotland and performed with The Scottish Ballet.
Margaret immigrated to Canada in 1981
with her husband and two children and was happy to find North
Battleford to be an active arts community blessed with talent in dance,
music and drama.
Margaret joined the artistic staff at The
Dance Connection, North Battleford, in 1991 as ballet Director and
trains ballet students from "Tiny Tots" to Advanced 11 levels.
Margaret regularly attends workshops and
teacher's courses to stay current with new teaching techniques and
believes that dance is a life long passion, which continues to grow.
Margaret is an award winning
choreographer and dedicated teacher who enjoys teaching students of all
ages She is proud to have many students who have achieved careers in
dance, as teachers and performers, who continue to keep in touch and
return to the Dance Connection to take classes and visit.
In addition to her position of Ballet
Director at the Dance Connection, Margaret has recently accepted the
position of Practical Teaching Supervisor with Royal Academy of
Dance.
Margaret is very pleased to be a part of
the Rose Valley Dance Competition and wishes all participants and
enjoyable and rewarding week ahead.
 Adjudicator - Kelsey Stone
Kelsey is
an independent choreographer in Saskatoon who has spent the last two
years teaching at The Performing Arts Warehouse. Since before Kelsey
could walk, she’s been dancing. Trained at La Danse, she
participated in many exams and competed in different festivals across
Canada.
While living
in Calgary after graduating, Kelsey was able to train at Decidedly Jazz
Danceworks and go to school for Radio Broadcasting at SAIT. Kelsey returned to the
stage while touring with JDT (The Big Thrill,
Canadian Disco Idol), then settled in Prince Albert to work
with Broadway North Theatre Company.
She performed
and choreographed in Beauty and the Beast (Belle), Footloose (Choreographer,
Rusty), Cinderella (Choreographer), Cabaret (Koste,
Dance Captain), Annie (Choreographer,
Grace). Kelsey
also got the chance to teach at The Performing Arts Warehouse and won a
choreographer’s award at Rhythm Dance Festival in Calgary her
first year teaching.
Kelsey was
recently featured as Saskatchewan’s Emerging Choreographer at
Dare to Dance ’07. Her love for creating beautiful dances for
beautiful dancers has taken her to Saskatoon where she is currently
working at La Danse and with Fireside Singers.
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