ABOUT OUR STUDIO

We are dedicated to our mission of ensuring the very best in dance instruction while providing memorable class experiences and performance opportunities for students of all ages and abilities. We strive to provide a welcoming, stimulating, challenging and enjoyable experience for all levels of dancers and their audiences. Ultimately, NLSD is committed to promoting and implementing the philosophy that dance is another way of walking.

Students at NLSD are given instruction that is both competitive and relevant in the current Canadian artistic context. Our instructors receive regular professional development training to maintain their skills and remain current in the ever changing dance milieu.

The programs we offer help dancers advance according to competencies and technique, rather than just age. This approach ensures that both recreational and intensive program students' needs are met as they strive towards their personal artistic goals.

Our Staff and Volunteer Board of Directors

NLSD is run by our essential volunteer Board of Directors, and is currently composed of the following individuals for the 2025/26 fiscal year:


President:  Marilyn Marquis-Forster

Treasurer: Kristie Anne Boucher

Secretary: Shannon L'Heureux

Director: Ketsia Houde

Director: Taryn Mechalchuk

Director: Amanda Taylor

Our Mandate 

As a community-based organization, Northern Lights School of Dance has a strong sense of responsibility to fulfill all aspects of our mandate:


  • To contribute to the development of artistic expression, the arts, and the artistic community in the Yukon
  • To give our students and audiences an appreciation for dance and its place within the community
  • To develop the whole person through dance: physical, artistic, emotional, social, psychological and spiritual being
  • To provide a stimulating, challenging, and enjoyable environment where students and teachers can achieve their maximum potential
  • To create a balanced approach to learning, application of knowledge, and living
  • To prepare and train emerging artists for the reality of the arts world
  • To create well-rounded citizens of the Yukon through arts, who will be capable and competent representatives of themselves to the community and in the world at large

Our Mandate 
As a community-based organization, Northern Lights School of Dance has a strong sense of responsibility to fulfill all aspects of our mandate:
  • To contribute to the development of artistic expression, the arts, and the artistic community in the Yukon
  • To give our students and audiences an appreciation for dance and its place within the community
  • To develop the whole person through dance: physical, artistic, emotional, social, psychological and spiritual being
  • To provide a stimulating, challenging, and enjoyable environment where students and teachers can achieve their maximum potential
  • To create a balanced approach to learning, application of knowledge, and living
  • To prepare and train emerging artists for the reality of the arts world
  • To create well-rounded citizens of the Yukon through arts, who will be capable and competent representatives of themselves to the community and in the world at large

 

Ways You Can Support NLSD


SPONSORING

Northern Lights School of Dance's Corporate Sponsorship Program looks to partner with local businesses that share our vision of enhancing the lives of Yukoners through community and the arts.


For more information contact us by phone at: (867) 668-6683, or email at board@nlsdyukon.com


VOLUNTEERING

We could not produce our annual performances without the help and support of our amazing parent volunteers. We ask that you please keep an eye out for any emails or other calls for volunteers, especially as performance times approach!


FUNDRAISING

Our fundraising is necessary to continue our high quality programming offered by our qualified and passionate instructors, and to help keep registration and costume fees reasonable. We rely on our fundraising efforts and work to keep these demands to a minimum.

Our Amazing Sponsors

(Updated December 2024)