Guelph Youth Dance

Name: Guelph Youth Dance
Address: Guelph, ON, CA
Telephone: +15198038829
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Guelph Youth Dance

Inclusive dance school in downtown Guelph offering Contemporary, Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Creative Dance, Parent & Child, Conditioning and Youth Companies.

Exceptional training with live percussion. Bright studios available for rentals. guelphyouthdance.ca The Guelph Youth Dance Training Program & Guelph Youth Dance Company stress the importance of discipline, technique and creative expression as well as the joy of contemporary dance. This is a dance program that promises thorough training as well as the opportunity for young people to discover their own unique language, all supported by a healthy, positive learning environment.

09/12/2026

Meet our amazing team!💫

We are over the Moon🌙 to welcome Hugo Bascur to GYD this year!

Hugo Bascur is a Waterloo based street dancer born and raised. He has been dancing for 18 years and competing for over 10 years.

Specializing in dance styles such as breaking, hip hop, and popping, he is currently pursuing the knowledge in other street styles such as locking, Krump, and house. Hugo’s goal is to share the knowledge and culture of street dance and pass on all he has learned to others and future generations!

Check out all the Hip Hop classes we are offering this year!
https://www.guelphyouthdance.ca/guelph-youth-dance-classes/hip-hop/

09/11/2026

GYD Dance classes start this Saturday!

For those already registered: keep an eye out for your class welcome email
with reminders about what to wear, parking, drop-off, and other helpful details to help you prepare for your first day.

We can’t wait to see you in the studio soon!

There is still time to register for the fall classes and we would ❤ to dance with you!
Fall and Full-Year registration is still open, and classes are filling quickly.
If you’re not yet registered, take a look at the schedule below to see which class might be the right fit.
https://www.guelphyouthdance.ca/schedule-2026-2027/

09/10/2026

to our spring show where we find these kids having no fun at all🤣

We are smiling like these kiddos because we are back to the studio in just two sleeps!

There is still time to join the fun this fall and we have classes for the whole family from Parent and Child all the way through to Adult classes there is something for everyone!
Head to our website for the full fall schedule!
https://www.guelphyouthdance.ca/schedule-2026-2027/

📸 Dan Charlebois ~ Bloom Media

09/09/2026

Looking for a place where you or your child can move, create, and connect?
At Guelph Youth Dance, our mission is to offer a welcoming space where dancers of all ages and abilities can feel at home in their bodies and express themselves with freedom and joy.
We’re a non-competitive dance school specializing in contemporary dance, with classes in:
🌟 Creative Dance
🌟 Contemporary
🌟 Ballet
🌟 Jazz
🌟 Parent & Child
🌟 Hip Hop
🌟 Youth Dance Company
…and yes, we offer classes for adults too including Contemporary, Ballet and Hip Hop and Jazz.
Classes start next week!!🎉🥳

👉 Visit our website for class descriptions, schedules, and online registration https://www.guelphyouthdance.ca/guelph-youth-dance-classes/

09/04/2026

Meet our incredible team!💫
Georgia Simms
Georgia Simms is a Guelph-based performing artist, educator, choreographer and facilitator. Her dance performance career spans 25 years. As a company member with Dancetheatre David Earle, she has performed David’s classic and new works across Ontario since 2005. Her work as a freelance artist has taken her to different parts of Canada, France and South Korea having been invited into projects by different choreographers and collaborators including Suzette Sherman, Julia Aplin, Janet Johnson, Karen Kaeja, Judy Oberfelder, Maxine Heppner, Robert Kingsbury, Julia Garlisi, Dong-Won Kim, and Jeff Bird.

Since 2005, she has hosted technique classes for adults that honour the lineage of modern dance offered to her by David Earle and Suzette Sherman. In 2014, she established a class in dancetheatre improvisation and continues to investigate the magic of spontaneous group composition with this community. She also offers workshops for local arts organizations including Art Not Shame, the Guelph Youth Music Centre, and the Elora Centre for the Arts.

As a choreographer, she regularly works with high school youth in the MADE Urban Arts Program and as a guest creator with the Guelph Youth Companies. Her choreographic work has been presented at the Guelph Dance Festival (2011, 2013) and by the City of Guelph (2012, 2013). She remains grateful for the opportunity to have been an artist-in-residence with Guelph Dance (2020-2021) and to have been presented as part of the Improvisation Festival (IF) at the University of Guelph (2000-2024).

Alongside her dance career have been academic pursuits including a Master’s Degree in Geography, sessional teaching, consulting in program design and evaluation, and she will soon begin her PhD with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation.

She has been a guest teacher and choreographer with the Guelph Youth Dance Training Program since 2012 and is thrilled to be part of the faculty this year.

09/03/2026

GYD Adult Classes
Our Adult Dance classes are geared to adults who want to be physical, creative, meet new people and learn new skills.
JAZZ
Monday, 5:30-6:30pm

HIP HOP
Tuesday, 7:30-8:30pm

BALLET BASICS
Tuesday, 6:30-7:30pm

CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUE
Wednesday, 7:15-8:15 pm

No special skills required, you just need to be brave enough to sign up!
Classes are offered by Full Year , Fall, Winter/Spring and Spring sessions.

https://www.guelphyouthdance.ca/guelph-youth-dance-classes/adult-classes/

09/02/2026

Meet our spectacular team💫

Evadne Kelly
Evadne Kelly is a dance artist, educator, and interdisciplinary scholar. Since graduating from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre in 1997, where she studied composition with Trish Beatty and Elizabeth Chitty, she has had the honour of working with Dancetheatre David Earle as a core dancer for fourteen years and, subsequently, as a guest. As an independent artist, Evadne has also performed works by choreographers D.A. Hoskins, Allen Kaeja, Learie McNicolls, Sharon Moore, Carly Wong, Graham McKelvie, Patricia Beatty, and Julia Sasso (including 2004 Dora award winning Variété directed by Ross Manson).
Parallel to her dance career, Evadne worked as a fully certified pilates instructor (Stott) for 20 years as she gained degrees in Equity Studies, Women’s Studies, Anthropology, and Dance Studies (PhD, York University). Her dissertation culminated in the publication of her 2019 peer-reviewed book, Dancing Spirit, Love, and War: Performing the Translocal Realities of Contemporary Fiji (Univ. Wisconsin Press).

Building on her 25+ years of professional dance experience and scholarly pursuits, Evadne focuses her arts-based research and creation work on community-engaged and devised methodologies for social justice aims. Evadne recently led the co-creation of a project series that exposes and counters histories and legacies of eugenics, including the exhibition Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario (recipient of the 2019 Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Award for Excellence in Conservation) and the online knowledge platform Into the Light: Living Histories of Oppression and Education in Ontario. The projects have formed collaborations with First Nations and settler survivor-activists and practitioners across various disciplines and sectors.

In addition to teaching contemporary composition at Guelph Youth Dance, Evadne is an Adjunct Professor at Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice, University of Guelph. She also works as a Sessional Instructor in Theatre Studies at University of Guelph and in Dance at York University.

09/01/2026

With back to school right around the corner so are fall activities! do you have a curious young mover at home? Our Contemporary classes might be just the thing!
Our contemporary training combines technical development with improvisation, composition, musicality and creative exploration. Classes are organized by age and experience, with opportunities for dancers to develop strength, coordination, and confidence.
What make out program really stand out is that all contemporary dance classes are accompanied by live percussion, elevating the dancers’ experience while deepening their musicality, creativity and artistry.

Contemporary classes are offer for all ages 6+ and that means you too adults!
https://www.guelphyouthdance.ca/guelph-youth-dance-classes/contemporary-technique/

08/31/2026

Meet our amazing Team💫

Tara Butler.
Tara has been teaching ballet to our GYD company for a few years and also holds the role of GYD Company Director.

Tara began her dance career with The National Ballet of Canada after graduating from the National Ballet School. She then danced for The Alberta Ballet and was a celebrated Principal dancer for Canada’s Ballet Jorgen for 16 years. Bengt Jörgen created many lead roles in full length ballets for Tara including Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Anastasia, Coppelia, and The Nutcracker. She had the opportunity to guest perform and teach internationally with The Hong Kong Ballet, The Ohio Ballet, Banff Festival Ballet and The Miami Hispanic International Ballet Festival. She has worked with many of Canada’s most sought after choreographers including Gioconda Barbuto, Roberto Campanella, Allison Cummings, Robert Desrosiers, David Earle, Robert Glumbek, Allen Kaeja, Karen Kaeja, Malgorzata Nowaka-May, Crystal Pite, Kathleen Rea, and Wen Wei Wang. Tara worked on many creative dance project with Proartedanza, DNA Theatre, and Allison Cummings and was featured in Michael Greyeyes short dance film ‘Seven Seconds’. Tara was also featured in the award winning dance film ‘Old Country’ by Allen Kaeja. Since moving to Kitchener and having her second child, Tara has been teaching and coaching young dancers, and choreographing, and performing as a freelance artist. She has been a guest coach and teacher for Canada’s Ballet Jorgen , George Brown College, Metro Movement and multiple dance studios across the GTA and Waterloo Region. Tara is excited to be teaching and sharing her knowledge and passion for dance with Guelph Youth Dance.

08/30/2026

Do you have a kiddos at home intrested in dance? Perhaps curious about Ballet?
Our ballet classes in Guelph provide students with a strong foundation in classical ballet technique, movement vocabulary and musicality. Through a progressive series of set exercises, students develop and refine their coordination, strength, flexibility, endurance, body awareness and understanding of ballet technique. Classes also encourage self-expression, confidence and a deeper understanding of anatomy and quality of movement, supporting dancers as they progress in their ballet training.

Classes are offered by Full Year, Fall and Winter/Spring sessions.
We have options for Children, Teens and Adults!
https://www.guelphyouthdance.ca/guelph-youth-dance-classes/ballet/

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Guelph, ON

Telephone

+15198038829

Website

http://guelphyouthdance.ca/

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