WHAT WE DO
We provide cross cultural dance fitness education to all ages across Manitoba through our mobile licensed educators. Difinity Dance Educators are licensed to teach one or more of our trademarked programs within their territory and province. Educators can be booked to facilitate our programs in the form of workshops, programs and summer camps across Canada.
OUR MISSION |
OUR MANDATE |
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DDSP COMMITMENT TO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT |
MEDIA COVERAGE |
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We believe that DDSP dance students and educators must demonstrate the following character qualities on the dance floor of life whether in rehearsals, on stage, at home, and in their community.
1. Commitment - Your yes must remain a yes, or say no regardless of the challenges you face, keep your commitments and rise above your circumstances. 2. Determination - If there is a will, there is a way. Life is not a cookie cutter path, find yours and life it out. 3. Gratitude - Be grateful for the mentors, friends, family, opportunities, and food on your plate, every day. 4. Hardwork - Be more than your talent and wisdom, push yourself everyday in all aspects of your life, never settle, never stop. 5. Integrity - Integrity means doing the right thing even if your standing alone, or stand to loose everything. 6. Truth - Be honest about who you are, and what you want to be. Start with this, and healthy boundaries will follow. 7. Openess - Try new things, explore other cultures and communities different than your own, do not be quick to judge. 8. Preserverance - When all seems lost or hopeless, do it anyway. 9. Reliability - Be reliable even if the benefits of the engagement change. Be the person who is there through the good and hard times. 10. Justice- Forgive those who have hurt you, and share your story and advocate for positive changes in your community. |
DDSP cares about Manitoba's diverse communities, and we are in constant pursuit of improving accessibility of our programs. Here are some of our recent successful endeavors. Clicks the link below to hear more about our stories:
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DDSP'S COMMITMENT TO KIDS & FAMILIES |
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU |
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All of our Educators are required to complete the following before they are accepted into our Educator Training Development courses:
Depending on our Educator's chosen specialty of expertise with DDSP, they will also be required to obtain specific coaching and fitness designations in Sport, Fitness, and Dance, or renew all applicable certifications. Our Educators also under go extensive year round training with DDSP, and dance organisations across Canada. When booking a DDSP Educator, we provide the host with all applicable copies of certifications our Educators have upon request. |
Your experience with us is very important to us. From consultation to booking your services we commit to provide you with the following:
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OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & FOUNDER BIO
Stephanie : Breaking Performer Stereo Types!
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Stephanie Strugar founded Difinity Dance Studio and Productions in 2008 with the goal to collaborate with community organizations to provide therapeutic performing arts services to at-risk youth, disabled youth and adults, and the elderly.
This goal was achieved as she developed programs and workshops for dance studios, fitness centers, and community arts organizations across Manitoba. Through grant funding and strategic partnerships her innovative dance, fitness, and music services were provided to children across MB. in schools and daycares.
As a choreographer, dance & fitness educator, model, actress, R&B singer and songwriter and certified body painter, Stephanie lives and breathes the arts. She has entertained family and corporate audiences for over 10 years as a professional clown, mascot, celebrity impersonator, event comedian and Emcee.
She is also the founder of Manitoba's 1st all-deaf dancers dance crew, DEF.UP! Which made national news.
Her focus is to utilize the challenges she's faced as a youth to inspire DDSP students. As a youth she was bullied and developed an eating disorder and depression, but her involvement in performance arts and visual arts kept her on a straight path. She is a body positive activist who offers wellness coaching to all her students promoting holistic nutrition, meditation, fitness, and involvement in the arts. She is a trailbazer who has competed locally as lead in Bachata dancing who rejects the idea that a woman can not be physically strong, or only strong in certain "body types." Her community advocacy includes teen talks about the subject of self worth, and this is a philosophy her Teen Girl Empowerment Project Initiative "GEM POWER" focuses on.
As a mother of one, Stephanie has increased her focus on developing whole family, cross generational community performance arts programs for the City of Winnipeg, and isolated Manitoba rural communities.
She was born with a physical disability called Scoliosis, and a learning disability called motor-sequencing disorder. This lead her to have social anxiety and depression as a youth as she struggled to keep up academically in the classroom, and physical education in school. From middle school on she was bullied for her disability and this lead her to develop body dismorphia disorder. Her childhood trauma as an at-risk youth developed into PTSD as an adult. It was Stephanie's creative abilities in dance and art that helped her channel her negative feelings into these positive outlets.
In summer 2019 after years of research on how to create inclusive dance education opportunities for person's with disabilities and/ or health conditions, Stephanie and a group of professional board of directors founded Manitoba's 1st non-profit organisation dedicated to expanding inclusive dance education. She currently serves as the Artistic Director, and Chair. To learn more: www.difiedance.org
This goal was achieved as she developed programs and workshops for dance studios, fitness centers, and community arts organizations across Manitoba. Through grant funding and strategic partnerships her innovative dance, fitness, and music services were provided to children across MB. in schools and daycares.
As a choreographer, dance & fitness educator, model, actress, R&B singer and songwriter and certified body painter, Stephanie lives and breathes the arts. She has entertained family and corporate audiences for over 10 years as a professional clown, mascot, celebrity impersonator, event comedian and Emcee.
She is also the founder of Manitoba's 1st all-deaf dancers dance crew, DEF.UP! Which made national news.
Her focus is to utilize the challenges she's faced as a youth to inspire DDSP students. As a youth she was bullied and developed an eating disorder and depression, but her involvement in performance arts and visual arts kept her on a straight path. She is a body positive activist who offers wellness coaching to all her students promoting holistic nutrition, meditation, fitness, and involvement in the arts. She is a trailbazer who has competed locally as lead in Bachata dancing who rejects the idea that a woman can not be physically strong, or only strong in certain "body types." Her community advocacy includes teen talks about the subject of self worth, and this is a philosophy her Teen Girl Empowerment Project Initiative "GEM POWER" focuses on.
As a mother of one, Stephanie has increased her focus on developing whole family, cross generational community performance arts programs for the City of Winnipeg, and isolated Manitoba rural communities.
She was born with a physical disability called Scoliosis, and a learning disability called motor-sequencing disorder. This lead her to have social anxiety and depression as a youth as she struggled to keep up academically in the classroom, and physical education in school. From middle school on she was bullied for her disability and this lead her to develop body dismorphia disorder. Her childhood trauma as an at-risk youth developed into PTSD as an adult. It was Stephanie's creative abilities in dance and art that helped her channel her negative feelings into these positive outlets.
In summer 2019 after years of research on how to create inclusive dance education opportunities for person's with disabilities and/ or health conditions, Stephanie and a group of professional board of directors founded Manitoba's 1st non-profit organisation dedicated to expanding inclusive dance education. She currently serves as the Artistic Director, and Chair. To learn more: www.difiedance.org
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