What Dance Can Do is a dance-based health arts organization
in Central Ontario, Canada.
in Central Ontario, Canada.
WHO WE ARE
What Dance Can Do's founding teacher and executive director, Miriam Goldberger, has a B.A. in Dance from Goucher College and has studied Dance Therapy at Lesley University in Boston and the Haliburton School of the Arts; Miriam founded Preggae Woman, Canada's first pre-natal/postpartum movement and support program in Toronto and is an advanced Dance for Parkinson's instructor through Canada's National Ballet School
and the Mark Morris Dance Group in NY.
and the Mark Morris Dance Group in NY.
Gentle Moves instructor and regional coordinator, Marilyn Muir, is a recently retired registered nurse and a certified developmental service worker with specialty certification in geronotolological nursing, Marilyn worked for over three decades in the health care field. She has completed the Canadian National Ballet School’s Sharing Dance for Seniors teacher training program offered in partnership with the Baycrest Institute as well as the Dance for Parkinson’s introductory instructor training program through Canada's National Ballet School and the Mark Morris Dance Group in NY.
Our Programs
GENTLE MOVES
Rediscover the pleasure and fun of moving!
A dance class for those with chronic pain, movement disorders such as Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), acquired brain injury or early dementia.
Click here to learn more and view times and locations.
Gentle Moves programs are also offered through
retirement homes, long term care facilities and memory units.
Learn more about What Dance Can Do's onsite programs here.
Rediscover the pleasure and fun of moving!
A dance class for those with chronic pain, movement disorders such as Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), acquired brain injury or early dementia.
Click here to learn more and view times and locations.
Gentle Moves programs are also offered through
retirement homes, long term care facilities and memory units.
Learn more about What Dance Can Do's onsite programs here.
BALLET LIGHT
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MOVE FREE
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Move Free is a fun-filled, self-expressive dance, song and theatre experience for the adult cognitively impaired community. Click here for details.
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ENGAGING CONVERSATIONS
Engaging Conversations with Living Memories is a new initiative working in partnership with the Orillia Museum of Art and History to collect stories of Orillia's past. Visits with seniors at retirement homes and long term care facilities include enjoyable music, dance and museum artifacts that bring forth personal stories of Orillia's colourful history which are recorded and transcribed into the museum's historical database.