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GETTING IN RHYTHM WITH MY SOUL

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Keren Brown is a lifelong lover of dance and movement, and is delighted to incorporate this into her work as Founder of GoGreenInside, a resource and community supporting women to create their healthiest, happiest most sustainable (mid)life — through online and live programs, wellness coaching, and marketing consulting for women creative entrepreneurs.

Keren is excited to be a member of the extended family at CDC, having danced as a junior and Amateur, and now Pro-Am, with CDC Director Brian Torner.

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Pat’s DJ Service provides the best in DJ entertainment and sound services in the Toronto area.

Although specializing in ballroom dancing events, we also DJ at Weddings, Dinner Dances or other social events where great music is needed, and can also act as Master Of Ceremony to help any event run smoothly.

The quality and quantity of our Dance Music includes over 20,000 Standard, Smooth, Latin and Rhythm titles, as well as a large collection of Salsa, Hustle, West Coast Swing and Argentine Tango.

All our music has been time corrected to strict tempo using International Dance International Federation & National Dance Council guidelines.

With over 30 years of experience we select music to cater the specific function spanning both traditional ballroom titles as well as contemporary ethnic music and Billboard Top Hits from any era through the present.

Pat Gullo DJ Services will insure that everyone at your function or occasion as a favorite song to get-up and dance, that’s a promise.

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Born into an artistic and musical family on a farm in rural Ontario, Chris has always felt a deep connection to sound and nature. He has over 20 years’ experience in nature-based spiritual practices and is a passionate explorer of holistic, energetic and creative arts. He is a graduate of the Evolving Spirit Yoga Teacher Training Program at The Yoga Sanctuary, and has sound and vibrational arts training through the Spiritual Director and Energetic Studies programs at the Transformational Arts College of Spiritual and Holistic Training. He is currently studying Integral Sound Healing with the Sound Healing Academy based in the U.K. Chris’ sound healing sessions are unique in that they incorporate his training in creative arts, yoga, reiki, crystal and aromatherapy, as well as his love of flowers, trees, animal lore and mysticism. He is a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) and incorporates the knowledge of Druidry into his sound healing. In addition to artistic and spiritual studies, Chris is a lover of hiking and travel, and has visited many sacred sites throughout Europe, North and Central America. Blending the spiritual with the creative, he is currently working on illustrations for the development of a deck of oracle cards. Chris is a graphic artist and creative director in the education field and provides on-going Elemental Healing Sound Baths at Wonderworks. He is a member of the Canadian Reiki Association and has a private practice in Toronto. 

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Ann Harding is a respected Coach and Adjudicator. She was a former Australian Champion and Blackpool Finalist. She is the co-organizer of Can-Am DanceSport Gala.

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Cynthia Kozlow began her professional dance career with Arthur Murray Montreal. When she moved to Toronto she joined Arthur Murray Etobicoke as a teacher and was promoted to Studio Manager in 2008. For 17 years she was one of the top Arthur Murray competitive instructors dancing with and coaching amateur dancers from Bronze to Scholarship levels including Scholarship Pro/AM Champions and Finalists. She also had an extensive professional competitive career culminating with her winning The Canadian National Rhythm title in 2007 and making the Smooth Finals the same year. In 2011 she won the Dancing For the Kids charity held in Edmonton with her celebrity partner TSN’s Bryan Mudryk. Cynthia is a Certified Examiner in American Smooth and Rhythm.

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Nathaniel Kozlow began his professional dance career at the age of 14 joining the corps de ballet of the Baroque Opera company, Opera Atelier. At 19, he joined the National Ballet of Canada dancing in the corps until 2009. With both companies he toured Europe, Asia and North America performing in many of the most famous theatres across the world. He was a part of the creation of James Kudelka’s last 4 full length ballets creating demi soloist and corps roles. In 2010 Nathaniel joined the Arthur Murray Dance franchise and quickly became a successful American Smooth and Rhythm teacher competing Pro/Am in both genres at Canadian, American and European AM comps from Newcomer to Scholarship levels. In 2016 Nathaniel was awarded the Arthur Murray Winners Circle as the Second Place Top Teacher in the world. Nathaniel has numerous film and television dance credits including Barney’s Version, Reign Seasons 1-3, The Magic Flute Diaries, Persee The Making of an Opera. Nathaniel has done extensive work coaching and choreographing for professionals and amateurs in Ballet, Baroque and Ballroom dancing. Nathaniel is certified as a Silver Instructor in American Smooth and Rhythm and is a certified Advanced Fighting Actor.

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Miroslav Bata Marcetic was a leading performer, soloist and choreographer, with the Serbian National Folk Ensemble “Kolo” in Belgrade, Serbia for seventeen years and is the recipient of numerous awards for his artistic work.

Miroslav created a great number of choreographies which have won either first or second prizes in competitions, both in Former Yugoslavia and in Canada. Under his artistic direction, many ensembles have won artistic awards.

In 2004 in Toronto, ON, Miroslav established his own dance school, “Academy of Serbian Folk Dancing” which consists of more than 350 dancers of all ages and a folk band.

He simultaneously works with the international folk dance community (link: http://www.marcetic.com/workshops.htm ) where he teaches Serbian and East-European dances.

Miroslav Bata Marcetic has devoted his entire professional career to the preservation and perpetuation of folklore and dance. His contribution to the Canadian Serbian folklore community is immeasurable.

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Instructor in Folk Dancing and Special Liason to AoSFD.

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Ms. Sanja Ranković, PhD, graduated from the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade (1994), Department of Ethnomusicology, and received her master’s degree in ethnomusicology (2001). She defended her PhD thesis in 2013, at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade also. Topic of her PhD dissertation was “Vocal dialects of the Dinaric Serbs in Vojvodina”. Sanja Ranković , PhD, is currently working at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade as an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology. So far, she has worked in numerous institutions where she taught traditional singing. In addition to working at the university, she also actively cooperates with all institutions where she worked prior to her employment at the Faculty of Music Arts.

Immediately upon graduation in 1994, she started working as an ethnomusicologist in the National Ensamle “KOLO“. In 1995, she started the Department of Traditional Serbian Singing and Playing at the Music school Mokranjac, where she runs the Department and works as a professor of traditional singing. Along with her students, she has had notable performances in Japan, France (Paris), Croatia (Zagreb), FIROM (Skopje), Switzerland, Cyprus, Hungary, Russia, etc. She was the author of traditional music concerts within BEMUS twice (in 2007, and in 2010).

Since 1998, she has also been teaching traditional singing to the students of the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade, at the Department of ethnomusicology. In association with Vienna Academy of Music (Austria), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), and Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest (Hungary), she and her students have also staged numerous concerts in Serbia and abroad. In 2012, pupils and students of her class won two first prizes, and one second prize at the Optina Spring competition, held in Russia, and one second prize at the International Voice Competition in Braila (Romania).

Since 2003, she has been a full – time associate at the National Ensemble Kolo, as an expert in traditional music programs. Apart from concert activities with the performers of the ensemble Kolo, she was the author of two full – length musical stage plays, which were performed at the National Theatre in Belgrade, Raša Plaović Stage (Images of the Folklife, and Kosovo and Metohija Testimonies). She has been a perennial associate at the Society of Culture and Arts Stanko Paunović in Pančevo, where she has been teaching traditional singing as well.

She has delivered numerous lectures, seminars, and workshops in the country, as well as abroad (Switzerland, Germany, France, Macedonia, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, etc.). Her lectures at the DMUBC Ilija Nikolovski Luj in Skopje, Department of Traditional Music and Dance, and Music school Hector Berlioz in Paris were especially notable. She has achieved cooperation with the Department of Ethnomusicology at Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, where she also delivered a lecture and organized a concert of her students and pupils (2011). For almost two decades, she has been working as a traditional singing lecturer at the Serbian Folk Dance and Song Study Centre of the National Ensemble Kolo.

In 1993, she has started a female singing group MOBA, with which she still performs traditional music at numerous concerts in Serbia and abroad (Russia, Greece, Germany, France, etc.). Sanja Ranković participated as a performer in recording of several audio editions, published by a vocal group “Moba”, in music for films like “Savior” and “The Dagger”, and in the jazz pianist Vladimir Marčić’s project, under the name “Ritual”.

She has directed her scientific – research work to studying vocal practices in Vojvodina, Central Serbia, Eastern Serbia, Southern Serbia, Southwestern Serbia, Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She collaborates on ethnomusicological projects of Matica srpska from Novi Sad, the Department of ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade, and Serbian Folk Dance and Song Study Centre of the National Ensemble Kolo.

She was awarded with the recognition of Association of Music and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia for the successful annual (2001) and perennial (2006) pedagogical work. As a performer, she has participated in six audio editions, and that is also the number of those she prepared with other groups (the singers of the National Ensemble Kolo, students of Music school Mokranjac from Belgrade, vocal group “Studenac” from Kragujevac, and vocal groups of the Society of Culture and Arts Stanko Paunović from Pančevo).

She is an active member of the Serbian Ethnomusicological Society’s Managing Board and author of several traditional music concerts organized by this society. The themes of her ethnomusicological interest are from the field of applied ethnomusicology, as well as the issues of vocal practices. During 2013 and 2014, she took part in two projects in the field of culture, which were funded by the EU. Moreover, she is a member of the International Association of ICTM (Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe). Besides performing and pedagogical activities, Sanja Ranković has also published several scientific papers and two books. One of the books represents a manual for learning the art of Serbian traditional singing.

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Victor and Helen Ross are former 4-Time Canadian Latin Amateur Champions. They are respected Coaches and Adjudicators and are available for Private and Group Dance Lessons at the Continental Dance Club in Mississauga.

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Professional Ballroom Dancing Competitive Achievements

1. Blackpool Dance Festival British Open Professional Standard Championship – Grand Finalist six years consecutively – The only Canadian dancer to have achieved this
2. World Professional Standard Championship – 3^rd Place
3. World Professional 10 Dance Championship – 3^rd The only North American dancer to have reached the top three in the world in two categories of World Championships.
4. Blackpool Dance Festival British Open Professional Rising Star Latin – Two times Champion
5. United Kingdom Professional 10 Dance Championship – Two times Champion
6. Canadian Professional Championship – 13 times Champion
7. European Professional 10 Dance Championship – 2^nd Place
8. Blackpool Dance Festival British Open Professional Latin Championship – Semi-Finalist
9. German, US, French, and Japan International Open Championships – Grand Finalist

Professional Performances

Performed shows in more than 25 countries over 5 Continents including

1. Guest of “Giants in Cabaret” at the International Championship held at the London Royal Albert Hall
2. Partner to Madonna in the movie “Evita”
3. Partner to Jennifer Lopez in the movie “Shall We Dance”
4. Guest demonstrator at the European Professional Latin Championship
5. Guest demonstrator at the European Professional Standard Championship
6. Guest demonstrator at the Super Japan Cup

Teaching/Coaching Experiences

Teaching and coaching worldwide since 1978.  Many of Mr. Tremblay’s students went on to become World Champions and Finalists, Blackpool Dance Festival Champions and Finalists, Canadian Champions and Finalists. Other highlights include:

1. Blackpool Dance Festival World Congress guest lecturer
2. Team Denmark guest teacher
3. Danish Youth Camp guest teacher
4. USA, China, Holland dance congress guest lecturer
5. Team Diablo (Italy) dance camp guest teacher and lecturer

Adjudicating/Judging Experiences

Qualified adjudicator of

1. International Society of Teacher of Dancing (I.S.T.D.), England
2. Canadian Dance Federation (C.D.F.)
3. International DanceSport Federation (I.D.S.F.)

Adjudicating/judging since 1978 including:

1. National championships in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, and Russia.
2. World championships in Denmark, South Korea, Russia.

Mr. Tremblay started ballroom dancing in 1970, had extensive training in classical ballet and jazz, and lived and trained in London, England between 1986 and 1997.  He now resides in Canada and trains competitors at all level.

Contact:

Email:  denis@denis-tremblay.com

Telephone: 1-866-517-0483 (within North America)