Squamish Dance Centre began it's journey with one studio and 86 students in January 2016. Fast forward to today and we are boosting with 600+ students and six studios. We contribute our continued growth to our loyal and supportive dance families, dedicated and talented instructors and our warm, efficient office team. Squamish Dance Centre is a place for youth to express, create, connect, learn and have fun in a supportive, inclusive and caring space. Offering a wide range of programs, SDC's instructors promise to create a safe space for your child to flourish, both inside the studio and in everyday life.
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Our Dream Team
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As the founder and director of Squamish Dance Centre, Sara Constantin truly believes that what can be learned in the studio goes beyond dance steps, and she recognizes that it is the soft skills like learning team work, resilience, setting goals, confidence, problem solving, creativity, self esteem, kindness and so much more that makes dance a worth while pursuit.
Miss Sara began her dance studies at age of three under the roof of Squamish's first dance school, Garibaldi School of Dance and then onto Miss Debbie's former dance school, Still Dancing. Miss Sara credits the skills she acquired through dance for shaping her into the person she is today. Born and raised in Squamish, Miss Sara is honoured to share her love of dance locally in the Sea to Sky Corridor. Miss Sara spent countless hours attending workshops, conventions and summer camps across the Lower Mainland. During her high school days, she found herself spending much of her time behind the studio walls of Vancouver Tap Dance Society. Where she studied under numerous world renowned tap dancers; learning repertoire, steps and absorbing an incredible amount of history. After graduating from Howe Sound Secondary School, Miss Sara began her full time teaching career at Still Dancing School of Dance. It was then that she expanded her passion and dedication working with children. Miss Sara is ADAPT (Associated Dance Arts for Professional Teachers) certified and qualified in Jazz and Tap. She continues to attend classes and workshops, furthering her knowledge and skills to pass along to the next generation. Sara is the recipient of the 'Youth Champion' award from the 2020 Squamish Business Excellence Awards, the 'Mentor Award' with Shine Dance Festival's 2023 Burnaby event and the 'Mentor Of The Year' award with Squamish Youth Council's 2025 Squamish Youth Excellence Awards. Miss Sara teaches our Kinder Combo, Jazz and Tap classes. Miss Sara is also our Studio Director, Event Planner and part of our front desk team. |
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Kim started her gymnastic career at the age of four. When she turned nine years old, Kim won the Western Canadian Gymnastics Championships and was subsequently asked to train with the U.S. Olympic Coach. As Kim continued her gymnastic career, she was also training full time in dance (Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Lyrical ,Musical Theater, Song and Dance, and Acrobatics) at Vi Cameron School of Dance. Kim was a Cast Member of the Surrey Arts Theatre which produced plays such as Finnians Rainbow and Fiddler on the Roof.
Kim has maintained fitness and learning to this day. Kim has successfully completed "Acrobatics Dance Teachers Association " courses from 18 months - Adults - Kinder , Junior, Intermediate, Senior, and Male Acrobatics, ADTA Certified Acrobatics Adjudicator“ also completed " Training Turnout and Flexibility” Workshop for Teachers. Kim is very passionate about teaching and loves working with every level of dancer who expresses interest in Acrobatics, For the past two decades, she has been an Acrobatic Dance Teacher and Choreographer for both competitive and recreational levels at both the National and International Levels for Acrobatics. Kim is a very talented Coach and Choreographer which has led her students towards a successful path and future. Many of her performing groups have won top honors at Local and International Competitions including taking top spot at the Tacoma Regionals and Hawaii Dance Experience in Waikiki Hawaii. During the 2016 and 2017 Dance Competition season, Kim led both of her Competitive Acrobatics Teams for both years to be undefeated and Provincial Acro Champions, and continues to lead her Competitive Acrobatics Teams, soloists, etc. with Overall High Scores, etc. each year. Kim has achieved high honors as a Trainer and Choreographer over the years and continues to do so each year. This includes Choreographer of the Year, Diamond Choreographer, Adjudicator's Choice and Teacher’s Choice at numerous competitions across the Lower Mainland. Additionally Kim has been recognized and was selected to receive the Arty Award in 2005 for all her contributions to the community of Abbotsford, Some of Kim’s credit in the community of Abbotsford includes choreographing for our very own B.C. Summer Games in 2004 and 2016, collaborative credit for the opening ceremonies for the Senior Summer Games and she has also had the opportunity to work with the community of Vancouver with the Fortheloveofit Youth on Granville Island,. Kim continues to share her love of dance and acrobatics with her students of all ages. Miss Kim teaches our recreational Acro, Tumbling and Competitive Acro Tech classes. Miss Kim also choreographs for our Competitive Team. |
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Samantha (she/her) is a dancer, educator, and choreographer in the Vancouver and Squamish area. Growing up in a dance studio since the age of 8, she has trained in contemporary, modern, ballet, jazz, lyrical, musical theatre/stage, and hip hop. After graduating high school, Samantha was accepted into the Simon Fraser University School for Contemporary Arts Dance Program, graduating in April 2018 with a BFA with a major in Dance.
At the age of 15, Sam became a devoted teacher’s assistant, and her love of teaching grew from there. Having now taught students from age 2-19, both competitive and recreational, Samantha’s passion for dance shines through her students. She has led soloists and groups to earn high score awards, and has won numerous choreography awards. In 2016, she had the opportunity to create a contemporary piece for the opening ceremonies of the BC Summer Games, which was performed for an audience of 8,000 spectators. Despite the awards, Sam’s favourite moments are the in-studio ones, when dancers allow themselves to fully give into the feelings and movements, whether it’s in a competition piece, technique class, or improv moment! All dance teachers should be well educated, so Sam is certified through the International Dance Teaching Standards program. In addition, she also attends teacher-physiotherapist workshops to stay up to date on the current science behind flexibility, turnout, and injury prevention. In February 2020, she attended the Sugarfoot Physical Therapy program for teachers and is certified in their dancer strengthening and injury prevention course, and uses their techniques in class daily. Sam is still furthering her education and will be pursuing her Masters degree in Physiotherapy in the coming years. (But she will never fully leave teaching!) Miss Sam teaches our Pre-Competitive Tech and Competitive Tech classes. Miss Sam also choreographs for our Competitive Team and is our Competitive Program Director. |
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Magnus has been breaking for 11 year’s, and teaching online for 3. He teaches all over the lower mainland in studios, and throughout the whole world through youtube and privately. Growing up, Magnus never felt like he knew his place, or his identity in life, until he found breaking. Being a Bboy was not just a chance to do the art form for Magnus, it became the way he gained confidence, social skills, health, wealth and relationships from close friends to family. His dance family is Now Or Never Crew (look them up!), he had the opportunity to dance, perform and compete next to his teachers/mentors and now brothers, which to him was always his goal growing up. But to be fair, what child doesn’t want to be exactly like their mentors? Magnus is lucky enough to be able to have achieved that. Dancing to him is the greatest foundation for life, as it was and still is his foundation to everything. There’s countless mental, physical and emotional tools, concepts and lessons that dance has taught Magnus, which he applies to daily life. Magnus is blessed enough to be able to have over 100 students locally, along with over 10,000 students internationally that follow his online endeavours. HIs single goal with teaching is to become the best version of himself, by providing his students the tools they need to become the best versions of themselves, so that they can become the version of themselves that they’ve always dreamt of becoming.
Magnus teachers our Breaking and Jam Skate classes. Magnus also choreographs for our Competitive Team. |
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Sarah spent her early and late schools years taking classical dance classes with Still Dancing School of Dance, while also being a helping hand at her mom's former daycare centre. Sarah's dance background coupled with her natural talent for working with children, makes her our official preschool queen! Sarah balances our high energy Preschool program with her soft voice, gentle nature, embracing hugs, voice of reason and negotiation skills that are like no other. You'll find Sarah around the studio helping a dancer with an untied show lace, giving a hug where it's needed, giggling at witty three year old remarks and so much more!
Miss Sarah is a certified Intellidance instructor. Miss Sarah teaches our recreational Ballet, Lyrical and Kinder Ballet classes. Miss Sara is also is our Early Years Program Director, Recreational Program Director, Event Planner and part of our front desk team. |
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Sally began her love of dance at the age of three. She trained extensively at the Goh Ballet Academy studying Vaganova technique and the RAD syllabus. After completing the Professional Training Program, she joined the School of Alberta Ballet and pursued studies in Human Kinetics and Dance at the University of Calgary. She later returned to Vancouver to perform in the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics, completed her BFA at Simon Fraser University, and served as Co-President of the Dance Student Union.
Wanting to share her passion for dance, Sally completed her Ballet Teaching Certificate and is now a Registered Teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance. She is also certified in Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) and is committed to making her classes both technically strong and enjoyable. Sally has been teaching on the North Shore for over 10 years. She recently moved to Squamish with her family and is thrilled to join the Squamish Dance community. She looks forward to sharing her expertise and experience with local dancers, and hopes to inspire the next generation with her dedication and enthusiasm! Miss Sally teaches our Pre-Pointe, Pointe and Competitive Ballet classes. |
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Briana’s love of dance began before she could even walk! She was constantly found moving and grooving to the music and found her sense of rhythm early on. She took her first dance class at the age of 2 and the rest is history.
Briana grew up dancing in Squamish & spent countless hours at the studio-practicing and pushing herself to be a better dancer, student and peer. She completed both her RAD & AIDT dance examinations as well as participated in competitions across the lower mainland. Briana continued to grow by taking every class she possibly could, in genres such as: Ballet, Contemporary, Modern, Lyrical & Musical Theatre…But nothing sparked her joy more than her love of Jazz and Hip Hop. Briana also traveled worldwide to take classes with teachers such as Mia Michaels, Twitch, Brian Friedman, Tyce Diorio, Dave Scott, Wade Robson, Laurieann Gibson, NappyTabs, Cris Judd, Shane Sparks and MANY MORE. Briana began working as a receptionist at Squamish Dance Centre in 2017 & began teaching in 2019. She became a full time teacher and Competitive Dance Instructor in 2021. Briana's creativity has received choreography awards, as well as her students being recognized for their high energy and spirit with adjudicator's choice awards. Briana teaches Hip Hop, Jazz, Kinder Combo, Variety, Adult Hip Hop & Competitive classes at Squamish Dance Centre as well as the Heels Program for Adults at Luminesque. Dance has always and forever been Briana’s happy place. She loves that she is able to share the space with her dancers to create confidence, magic and light in such a positive environment such as Squamish Dance Centre. Miss Briana teaches our Hip Hop, Jazz and Variety classes. Miss Briana also choreographs for our Competitive Team. |
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Jamie is a contemporary dance artist and teacher located in Vancouver, BC. She has studied at Modus Operandi under the direction of Tiffany Tregarthen, David Raymond, and Kate Franklin, and EDAM under the direction of Peter Bingham. As an independent artist, Jamie has had the pleasure of interpreting works for Justine Chambers, Company 605 and Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg. As a choreographer, she has created works that have been shown at Dance Victoria, Boombox, Gold Saucer Studios, The Banff Centre, The Scotiabank Dance Centre and Citadel+Compagnie in Toronto. She is the most recent recipient of The Dance Centre’s biennial Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award. Jamie has been commissioned to create original works for Festival of Recorded Movement and The Happening’s Senior Company. She has created multiple movement based film works which have been screened both nationally and internationally. Jamie is an experienced and engaged teacher, having had the opportunity to lead multiple classes and workshops throughout the lower mainland. As a teacher, she hopes to empower students through technical and creative development, encouraging them to develop their own interests and excitements surrounding movement. She intends to create classes that are fun, safe, and fulfilling and that can value each individual's experience equally.
Miss Jamie teaches our Competitive Ballet, Pre-Competitive Tech and Competitive Tech classes. Miss Jamie also choreographs for our Competitive Team. |
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Katheryn found her passion for all things movement at a very young age as an avid dancer and tree climber. She spent many of her formative training years in the pre-professional ballet program at Pacific Dance Arts in Vancouver, studying mainly ballet, pointe, and pas de deux. At 16 she decided to broaden her spectrum and dove into dancing competitively in Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Modern, Tap, Stage, and Hip Hop . She was fortunate to receive many scholarships that enabled her to train from Paris to Los Angeles with some of the worlds top professionals.
She then began a 3 year journey as a member of the Canadian National Dance team, and represented her country at the world dance championships in Germany & Poland. For 2 years she was the Team Canada Junior & Children’s team assistant, overseeing and helping with the creation, instruction, and rehearsal of the teams. After graduation, Katheryn was hired by Princess Cruise Lines as a production show dancer, fulfilling a lifelong dream of hers, and over the course of two years she completed four contracts, around the globe and has the privilege of performed a dozen shows varying in styles from Disco, to Latin, to Waltz, and Jive. Following a near career ending injury, Katheryn stumbled upon the world of Circus and her life was changed - spinning, daring, acrobatics was all she could ever want, so she spent 3 years training aerials, rou cyr, handbalancing, and importantly strength, flexibility, and injury prevention, as a part of The Circus Lab’s Artist Preparatory Program. After being privileged enough to spend the past few years train with professional artists from Cirque du Soleil and other various companies, it was a natural next step to begin to share her knowledge and love of all things acrobatic with as many people as possible. Katheryn’s has a deep affection for the performing arts and has been lucky to share that with thousands of students over the past decade. She is committed to continue to learn and improve and share her knowledge in teaching the next generation of artists in the studio. She is currently registered with the Acro Dance Teachers Association, and is so excited to help you grow! Miss Katheryn teaches our Aerial Hoop and Trapeze classes. |
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Paula grew up in Langley BC where she began her dance training at the age of 6 years old. She has extensive training in Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical and Modern, as well as Traditional Ukrainian dancing. She is also well versed in conditioning and improvisation for dancers. Receiving the award “Most Promising Jazz Choreographer” from Surrey Festival of dance at the young age of 13, Paula continued to and has been choreographing and teaching since then receiving numerous awards from festivals and competitions. Paula's choreography can been seen on the TV hit show “Supergirl”. She has trained throughout BC, and Ontario, at such schools as York University, and Toronto School of Dance.
As education is very important to Paula, she continues to educate herself on a regular basis taking workshops and teacher intensives. Most recently Paula graduated from the Royal Academy of Dance CBTS program and she attained her Registered Teachers status. She also has completed her level one and two in the International Dance Teaching Studies, as well as became certified in Marie Walton-Mahons Progressing Ballet Technique program. Paula’s passion for dance really shines through in her teaching and she is very concerned with the health, happiness, and positive learning experience of the individual dancers and helps them strive to be the best they can be. Miss Paula choreographs for our Competitive Team. |
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Sydney started her dance journey with Still Dancing at the age of three years old and then onto Squamish Dance Centre upon its launch in 2016. Throughout her years as a dancer, Sydney trained extensively in ballet, jazz, acro and contemporary, later furthering her passion for movement in hip hop and lyrical. Sydney spent eight years on Squamish Dance Centre’s Competitive Team receiving numerous top accolades and scholarships as part of our groups, duos and as a soloist. Sydney also spent many years as a successful student teacher with Squamish Dance Centre’s Student Teacher Education Program helping inside and outside the classroom with our next generation of dancers.
Upon graduating high school in 2024, Sydney spent our 2024/25 dance season with an internship position shadowing Miss Sara and Miss Briana inside the classroom to expand her passion for working with children and teaching dance. With Sara and Briana’s guidance, Sydney had the opportunity to create lesson plans, lead exercises, teach new skills and create choreography. Sydney was also our resident substitute teacher where she furthered her experience as an independent teacher. Sydney will be officially stepping into her teacher shoes for our 2025/26 season, we are so excited to have her part of our team! Sydney successfully participated in The Dance Leadership Institute’s “Leadership In Dance” certification program, deepening her knowledge in passionate and safe education. With more training courses and experiences in her horizon, Sydney is sure to become an unstoppable leader for our dance family. Sydney teaches our Jazz, Contemporary, Lyrical and Acro classes. |
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Chloe started her dance journey with Still Dancing at the age of three years old and then onto Squamish Dance Centre upon its launch in 2016. Throughout her years as a dancer, Chloe trained extensively in tap, ballet, jazz, contemporary and hip hop. Chloe spent ten years on Squamish Dance Centre’s Competitive Team receiving numerous accolades as part of our groups, duos and as a soloist. Chloe was part of Squamish Dance Centre’s first Disneyland trip in 2019 where she performed down Mainstreet USA and participated in workshops with Disney characters. Chloe spent many years as a highly successful student teacher with Squamish Dance Centre’s Student Teacher Education Program helping inside and outside the classroom with our next generation of dancers. Showing great promise as a leader, Chloe was awarded the role as our STEP Leader in 2024 where she managed Student Teacher applications, parent and teacher communication, created our STEP schedule and supported our Student Teachers’ development.
Upon graduating high school this year in 2025, Chloe will spend our 2025/6 dance season with an internship position shadowing Miss Sara and Miss Briana inside the classroom to expand her passion for working with children and teaching dance. With Sara and Briana’s guidance, Chloe will have the opportunity to create lesson plans, lead exercises, teach new skills and create choreography. Chloe will also be our resident substitute teacher where she will further expand her experience as an independent teacher. Chloe participated and successfully received certification in The Dance Leadership Institute’s “Leadership In Dance” program to further her knowledge in safe education. With more training courses and experiences in her horizon, Chloe is sure to become an unstoppable leader for our dance family. Chloe will be interning as a teacher with our Kinder Ballet, Kinder Combo, Jazz, Tap and Hip Hop classes. Chloe is also our Student Teacher Education Program Director. |
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Here's a bit about our irreplaceable right hand man and lady. Charlotte (aka Miss Sara's momma bear) helps keep things in order at the studio. She enjoys chatting with parents and dancers, assisting in any way she can. Although Charlotte has no dance training herself, she has a good grasp of the industry while being a huge driving force during Miss Sara's training and career. During her years behind the scenes, Charlotte has become an expert in helping with Recital and other event preparations and attending countless performances; all while keeping up with the fast paced environment. Charlotte has a vast resume in the customer service industry from retail to food. She spent 3 years in management for Fields and administration for her husband's business. Miss Sara's dad (aka Bob The Builder) is our handy man around the studio. You may see Bob working on maintenance or bringing a construction plan to reality. Bob has been an appliance repair technician for over 25 years, owning and operating his own business, Combined Appliance Center. Bob has proven himself to be a brilliant handy man, devising and building structures around his home. Now he does the same for our dance home! You can chat with Bob while he does odd jobs at Rehearsal, Recital and other studio events.
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Located at 38924 Queens Way (unit 1, 3 & 4) Squamish BC
Across the bottle depot and beside Golden Crust
Across the bottle depot and beside Golden Crust
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Our 10,000 square foot dance home includes:
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