About Us

In partnership with Squamish Dance Centre, the Collective offers a welcoming space for dancers in the Sea to Sky community to move together under the shared belief that dance can inspire, connect and uplift. Drop-in classes at accessible community rates are offered sessionally in a variety of styles such as contemporary, jazz and lyrical. The collective also offers occasional ballet, contact improv and heels workshops with guest teachers.

By invitation, for those at an intermediate/advanced level who commit to weekly rehearsals,  additional dance training is offered for a small membership fee. During this time members of the Collective work collaboratively to build on choreography, bringing to life artistic, and entertaining dance performances for the Sea to Sky community. Funds generated from drop-in classes and performances are donated to local charitable organizations.

Alongside weekly rehearsals, we collaborate with guest artists, create original productions, and participate in community events that bring people together through the joy of movement.

We are currently taking a pause as we recently comlpleted our 4th benefit production: TEMPUS. Inspired by the novel Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman, TEMPUS was a groundbreaking collaboration between The Sea to Sky Dance Collective and talented hard-of-hearing composer, Michael K.Hewitt, director of the newly formed Create-Able Arts Society, which supports artists with disabilities. TEMPUS marked the fourth production that Michael and the Collective had worked together on and offered audiences an evocative journey through sound and motion unlike we they had created before.

TEMPUS intertwined original music and dynamic contemporary dance choreography to explore how humans experience time—through stillness, motion, and connection. Each chapter of Einstein’s Dreams is a glimpse into a different imagined world, with its own version of time, where it can flow slowly, race, loop endlessly, split or stand still. These are not scientific theories, but emotional truths—Explorations of how human lives are shaped by the nature of time.

$8000 in proceeds from Tempus were donated to the Sea to Sky Hospice Society, whose work honours time in its most profound form—by accompanying individuals and families through life’s final transitions with grace, presence, and dignity.

In a world where time behaves unpredictably—compassion, art, and connection remain constants.