A new dance facility where the focus is on providing adult students
with technical dance instruction through fun but disciplined small
classes.  There seems to be a lack of classes for adult dancers with
past training as well as beginner classes that don't dissolve after 3
months.  Defalco Dance Training Centre is offering a place for adults
to receive solid training with other adults in classes geared strictly for
the adult body.

Sheila Defalco is a Canadian Dance Teachers' Association (C.D.T.A.)
Examiner – Jazz and Tap and Associate Member – Ballet.  Teaching
                       for more than 30 years, her professional training was
                       under the careful eye of her mother in a variety
                        of dance disciplines at the family dance studio.  This
                       led to many overall dance awards and scholarships
                       and the opportunity to train with top instructors in
                       North America and Hong Kong.  Eventually Sheila
                       became Co-director and later Director of Scarcella
                       School of Dancing and Cabaret School of Dancing
                       here in Ottawa till the family closed the business in
                       1998.  Since that time Sheila has been teaching at
local dance studios and enhancing not only the technical strengths of
her students but their sincere love and appreciation for dance.  She
continues to develop her personal teaching style as an independent
teacher and choreographer, and is a well-respected member of the
dance community.

With an emphasis on strong technical training, her students have
received many top competition awards and dance scholarships;
several have gone on to enjoy professional careers teaching and
performing in the entertainment industry. Always busy preparing
young dancers for student and major examinations as well as
competition work, Sheila is regularly invited to guest teach and
adjudicate dance competitions, provide ongoing and membership
training to CDTA teachers and teachers in training, as well as provide
ongoing instruction and choreography for dance studios throughout
the country.

Over the years Sheila has had the opportunity to work with a variety
of artists including World Cup Freestyle skier Mike Nemesvary and
multi-platinum recording artist Alanis Morissette. Going onto TV, film
and stage are Klea Scott, Sarah Connell, Stephanie Ramphos, and
Alison Smyth as well as other students that have gone onto achieve
successful careers in dance, entertainment and teaching.

This is the true reward - watching your students pursue their dreams!
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Defalco Dance Training Centre Inc.
We are all dancers.  We use movement to express ourselves - our
hungers, pains, angers, joys, confusions, fears - long before we
use words, and we understand the meanings of movements long
before we understand those of words.
- Franklin Stevens