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ID 9521
Date May 10, 2022
Title Youth Training Program Open House
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/youth-training-program-open-house/
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Summary YTP OPEN HOUSE – JUNE 6-8 Join us for an exciting week where prospective Youth Training Program (YTP) students can experience our classes and their parents can learn more about DJD at nightly information sessions with the YTP assistant Director, Leanne Kidd. Please see below for the Open House schedule & level descriptions. All classes are free of charge. To join in, please fill out the registration form here  WHAT...
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ID 5515
Date September 23, 2021
Title DJD Dance Centre Relaunch Protocols & Policies
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/protocolsandpolicies/
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Summary Created: June 22, 2020 Updated: April 30, 2022 MASK UPDATE  Masks are no longer required beginning March 1. If you are more comfortable wearing a mask we encourage and support your choice to do so. ADULT STUDENT EXPECTATIONS Students are expected to familiarize themselves with all published protocols and policies prior to entering the facility. These protocols will be emailed to you upon reserving your space in class. All students...
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ID 8445
Date June 15, 2021
Title Celebrating Founder-in-Residence Vicki Adams Willis
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/celebrating-founder-in-residence-vicki-adams-willis/
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Summary On June 15, 2021, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation announced the recipients list for the 2021 Distinguished Artist Awards, which comprises a trio of powerful women including our very own Vicki Adams Willis alongside artist  Faye HeavyShield (Blood Reserve, Kainaiwa Nation, AB), and writer and filmmaker Cheryl Foggo (Calgary, AB). We offer our sincere congratulations to all of the recipients. In the announcement , Her Honour, the Honourable Salma Lakhani, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta refers to...
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ID 5524
Date June 28, 2020
Title Summer Camp Protocols & Policies
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/summer-camp-protocols-policies/
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Summary Created: June 27, 2022 Updated: This document will be updated as needed to be compliant with any AHS guideline updates. STUDENT EXPECTATIONS Families are expected to familiarize themselves with all published protocols and policies prior to entering the facility Parents & guardians will be asked to complete the COVID19 self-screening tool behalf of their child prior to entrance into the studio and commencement of any activity. Any student that is...
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ID 5435
Date April 29, 2020
Title International Dance Day Message 2020
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/international-dance-day-message-2020/
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Summary My Fellow Dancers, don’t forget what we have in us how it feels to get down and to soar to laugh and cry with our bodies and how we can physically speak in ways even poetry can’t don’t forget touch and what it feels like to sync with other bodies harmonize breath to take up space to embody music the deliciousness of becoming those beats, that riff, that groove how...
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ID 5368
Date March 27, 2020
Title Happy 36th Birthday DJD!
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/happy-36th-birthday-djd/
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Summary Please enjoy a poignant birthday message from our Artistic Director, Kimberley Cooper. Happy 36th Birthday DJD! Forgive me for being extra sentimental today. Sometime shortly after we moved in to the DJD Dance Centre, someone asked me to write something for something, I can’t remember what… I imagined I was the building and wrote this and I don’t think it ever got used, so here it is for you on...
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ID 4967
Date January 21, 2020
Title Thoughts from an English Teacher on Juliet & Romeo
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/thoughts-from-an-english-teacher-on-juliet-romeo/
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Summary Juliet and Romeo: a beautifully haunting reimagining of the “star-cross’d lovers” for the 21st century By Curtis Petrie Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ Juliet and Romeo is a 21st century meta take on William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Kimberley Cooper and Cory Bowles’ adaptation is sinuous proof of the eternal relevance of the Bard’s version. The trope of the star-crossed lovers lives within the human condition and thus our literature. From Odysseus and Penelope...
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ID 4643
Date November 19, 2019
Title Artistic Director’s Message From the Road
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/artistic-directors-message-from-the-road/
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Summary MESSAGE FROM THE ROAD Wednesday, November 13 Here we are in St. Catharines Ontario. I’m sitting in my hotel room waiting for my laundry to finish. It’s easy to lose track of days as time is all slippery on the road. It snowed A LOT here on Monday, which meant cancelling some of our workshops yesterday as busses were cancelled for schools because the roads were so bad in the...
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ID 2613
Date April 18, 2018
Title Message from MIMIC Co-Creators Kimberley Cooper & Peter Balkwill
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/message-mimic-co-creators-kimberley-cooper-peter-balkwill/
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Summary It feels like we have been talking about this show for some time. Kim was always going to Old Trout shows and noticing how the performers were in a state of dance connected with the puppets, and Pete has been sneaking into the tap classes at DJD for years trying to quench his desire to be a professional dancer–to be able to move in ways that defy the gravity that...
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ID 2104
Date November 16, 2017
Title Message from Artistic Director, Kimberley Cooper on Velocity
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/message-artistic-director-kimberley-cooper-velocity/
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Summary The act of making dance is not for the faint of heart. To pull movement from the air and your body, to speak through that movement, to be abstract, to be literal, and see your ideas through a jazz lens is a huge challenge. It takes courage, rigour, and ideas. It can feel like being on a runaway train. It can be terrifying, exhilarating and fun, it can also be...
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