My Life’s Mission? Helping People Turn “Pooh” into Fertilizer…

As a result of the ParticipACTION Television Launch during the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to connect and re-connect with so many passionate people. As much as my role is to help ParticipACTION inspire others to take up »

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ParticipACTION: Get Inspired! Get Moving!

ParticipACTION is the national voice of physical activity and sport participation in Canada.  The organization’s goal is to inspire Canadians to increase their level of activity and to inspire society to make it easier to become more physically active.
I’m finally »

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So You Think You Can Dance?

“So You Think You Can Dance” has provided a wonderful opportunity for dancers and choreographers to showcase their talents to a mass television audience.  In North America, just the mere mention of “Benji”, “Nico”, “Mia”, “Blake”, “Jean-Marc”, “France”, “Mary”, “Melanie”, and “Tony” almost brings about the same type »

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Dragons’ Den Part I: Out of the the Ballroom and into the Fire

On Wednesday, September 15th at 8:00 p.m., CBC will air the “Dragons’ Den Season 3 Special”, in which danceScape will be included as part of the lessons learned from the Den.  There have been times where I thought, “Why, oh why, did we »

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Welcome to my official blog!

It’s hard to imagine that it has been almost 10 years since I first contemplated leaving the corporate world to become a “Ballroom Dance Instructor” with Beverley, the love of my life.
It sounds crazy in hindsight.  
But those inner voices – or maybe it was just innocent blind faith – said that it was the right time to do it.  Just as »

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