Kids Etc's Youth Movement Company Dance Studio

At Kids Etc's Youth Movement Company our faculty is a milieu of talented and caring people, each with the primary mandate of nourishing our students.

Move your mouse over a faculty member for a detailed biography.

Rheesa Schachter
Artistic Director

Kids Etc started out in an elementary school auditorium with 12 students. Over the years, the school has grown to over 1000 enrolments. Keeping a personal touch is important to Rheesa as she tries to know all the dancers and their families. Rheesas background includes training at Torontos York University as well as over 25 years of teaching dance in Winnipeg! Kids Etc provides a healthy learning environment for dancers of all ages. Some of our students have gone on to careers in dance performance nationally and internationally.

Brianne O'Neill
Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical

Brianne studied tap and jazz for many years. Her dynamic approach to dance generates a unique and exciting performance quality from all her dancers. She is a recipient of many honors and awards at Regional and National Dance Competitions.

Joey Davies
Jazz, Hip Hop, Pre-school, Lyrical, Musical Theater

Joey is an alumni of Kids Etc. Joey graduated from Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts in 1995, and was on the Randolph faculty as a Jazz and Musical Theatre teacher for 6 years. Aside from the many stage and television performances Joey has done while living in Toronto, including choreographing dance numbers for the television show A Class Act, Joey is very proud of the Competitive Jazz and Musical Theatre division she created at The Dance Institute in Markham.

Chantalle McCarville
Ballet

Chantalle has obtained her associate designation from the Cecchetti Society. A graduate of the renowned Quinte Ballet School in Ontario, she trained on a full scholarship at the prestigious Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland. Chantalle studied the Vagonova method, eurythmics, anatomy and pilates. Chantalle brings over 25 years of ballet training and 9 years of teaching experience to our faculty.

Lauren Friesen
Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Jazz-Tap

Lauren started dancing at Kids Etc at the age of 3 where she studied jazz, tap, lyrical, modern, musical theatre and ballet. She received an Honors award for her Senior Certificate Cecchetti ballet exam. In addition to her many gold and gold honors awards at dance competitions over the years, she was the first recipient of the Erin Bricker Achievement Award for Lyrical Dance.

Tammy Snell
Jazz

Tammy studied dance with the George Randolph School of Dance in Toronto. She is a recipient of several gold medals in competition and has choreographed many gold and gold honors performances for the Manitoba Provincial Dance Festival. She most recently completed her training in Stott pilates.

Laurie Alston

Tap, Jazz

Lauries training includes The Banff School Of Fine Arts, Broadway Dance Center in New York and The EDGE in L.A. She performed professionally with Ballet North as a Principle Dancer, and worked numerous contracts as a lead singer and dancer at Tokyo Disneyland. She enjoyed working in the cruise ship industry.

Erin Paul
Lyrical, Modern

Erin has studied dance at Kids Etc since the age of 4. Ms. Paul has received many awards and recognition for her performance over the years. A scholarship recipient at the Manitoba Provincial Dance Festival, Erins unique choreography both entertains and motivates her students.

Rachel Corrin
Musical Theatre, Tap, Pre-school

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Rachel has more than 17 years of performance experience. She has studied dancing, singing, acting, film, radio and modeling. Ms Corrin has won numerous dancing and singing competitions across Manitoba. Rachel has appeared live on stage in Winnipeg, New York and Orlando, Florida, done a number of radio advertisements, choreographed fashion shows and directed musicals and plays for people aged 3 to 30. In 2004, after being accepted into the prestigious Randolph Academy of the Performing Arts, a leg injury cut short the promise of Rachel's stage career. She has decided to share her love of performance with children. Through acting, singing and movement, children learn how to express themselves creatively and solve problems. Rachel's goal is to eevelop a positive environment with enough structure so that children feel safe, and enough whimsy to make movement and performing arts lots of fun.


rheesa	brianne	joey

chantalle	tammy	laurie

lauren	erin	etsuko

amber	taylor	rachel

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