A 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 offers a place for adults to
receive solid training with other adults in classes geared strictly for
the adult body.  

Sheila Defalco-Stumpf is a Canadian Dance Teachers' Association
(C.D.T.A.) Examiner and Life Member – 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. Sheila continued 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, 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. 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-class athletes, local and international  
recording artists, TV, film and stage actors as well as train students
that have gone onto achieve successful careers in dance,
entertainment and teaching.

This is the true reward - helping bring out the natural talent
                      in all of us!
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