Dance Jam at Parkgate Community Centre
Dance Jam 2019
Active, accessible and open to dancers of all abilities. Back to basics dance fun using traditional and contemporary formats for learning.
Personal Style
Have you got great moves? Come and share your style with others who want to learn while you learn too! New to dance? You can easily learn to freestyle in this class!
Testimonials
Thank you Virginia Duivenvoorden! It was an amazing experience that opened new pathways of thinking in my brain.
-Stephanie
Thank you Virginia for such an amazing dance session. You gave us so many wonderful ways about thinking about movement.
-Wendy
Low Cost
NVRC is kindly offering this class as a low cost program to make it accessible to more people.
Fall 2019
Working with professional dance artist and class facilitator, Virginia Duivenvoorden, participants explore movement as a means of expression through creative prompts. Learn to improvise, freestyle and create dance art and your own choreography. Move with the music and emote with various dance styles that may include hip-hop, K-pop, contemporary and more.
Pain Management
Gentle Movement and Relaxation
Learn pain science with a focus on the nervous system functioning in relation to persistent pain and chronic pain.
Five Weeks
Practice breathing techniques to calm the nervous system. Learn in a beautiful and inspiring location at the Dance Centre in Vancouver.
Chronic Pain
Chronic pain has been recognized as pain that persists past normal healing time. Usually pain is regarded as chronic when it lasts or recurs for more than 3 to 6 months.
Personal Progress
Evaluate your progress using pain and movement-based resources and use lessons to experience gentle movement exercises. Additional support is available with Anderson Performance Clinic.
Drug Free Pain Management
Integrate gentle movement-based exercises as part of self-management strategy for people living with chronic pain.
Low Cost
Welcome to the Gentle Movement & Relaxation Program.
The goal of this program is to teach those living with chronic pain how to use movement as a safe pain management practice.
Tuesdays at the Dance Centre
Five Week Session
Welcome to the Gentle Movement & Relaxation Program.
The goal of this program is to teach those living with chronic pain how to use movement as a safe pain management practice.
Imagery Exercise
Learn
Exercise the neuromuscular connection between brain and body. Discover new pathways and build on knowledge.
Adapt
Do you desire to improve your health, fitness or mobility? You can adapt exercise to your changing needs.
Refresh
Take some time to feel restored and inspired through the power of imagery.