New Works Share Dance
New Works is here to SHARE DANCE with you! Get in touch with us to find out how the Share Dance Program can create unique workshops for your community.
About the Share Dance Program
New Works Share Dance pairs equity-owed dance artists with underserved communities to offer classes and workshops to underserved youth, children and families. Workshops are low-barrier, and tailored to meet the specific needs of the groups the dance artists work with. Communities are able to access dance programming that is designed with them in mind, explore self-expression through creative movement, and see their cultures and lived experiences represented among the teaching dance artists, who expand and develop their skills in adapting their teaching.
Why is this program important to support/be part of this program?
Share Dance provides opportunities for social and cultural recognition and reflection by utilizing dance as a means of communication that transcends language. As a result, the program is uniquely inclusive for newcomers, and people with learning, mental health, cognitive and physical challenges.
Share Dance 2025/26 by the Numbers
Each season the need to Share Dance expands, the Community Partners request more classes as they see the impact of dance in the wellbeing of their youth. Please consider becoming a partner, donor, or volunteer and help us bring the joy of dance to a wider community!
Share Dance facilitators
Community Partners
Free classes
Participants
New Works Share Dance Facilitators
Our Share Dance program gives teaching opportunities to Dance artists from diverse styles and provides them with trauma-informed tools to better support underserved and at risk communities. Some of the classes we currently provide are: Contemporary Indigenous, Hip-Hop, Contemporary, Jazz, Latin Dances and more! Get in touch with us to find out how the Share Dance Program can create unique workshops for your community.
Dance Victoria Share Dance Facilitators
*This program includes 18 facilitators in total—12 based in Metro Vancouver (listed here), and 6 working exclusively within their local communities in Prince George and Dance Victoria.
Learn more about our Share Dance classes and facilitators here:
New Works Share Dance Community Partners
The Share Dance Program partners with organizations to bring free dance workshops into schools, after-school care programs, or organizations which typically have little or no budget for artistic programming. Most of our community partners support underserved youth and at risk people in metro Vancouver.
Since 2014 Share Dance expanded by including new partnerships with organizations in the Downtown Eastside that serve children and youth not served by traditional school systems due to housing instability, immigration issues, and other complex and systemic barriers.
Community Partners
Some of the Organizations New Works is currently providing classes are:
Rainbow Refugee
Watari Counselling & Support Services Society
RayCam Co-operative Centre
Among 6 more organizations that prefer to remain anonymous.
New Works Share Dance Regional Expansion + Dance Victoria
Through support from the National Arts Centre’s Arts Alive program, New Works was able to partner with BC Movement Arts Society, Community Arts Council of Prince George, the Oliver Community Theatre Society, and Dance Victoria to bring Share Dance to communities outside of Metro Vancouver in 2024 and 2025.
We are excited to announce that Share Dance is continuing in 2026 in Victoria, spearheaded by the team at Dance Victoria. We are delighted that the magic of Share Dance dance is continuing to grow in Metro Vancouver and beyond!
Are you interested in becoming a Share Dance Facilitator or Community Partner?
CONTACT US
If you have any questions, suggestions, or would like to propose a workshop, please contact Natalia Martineau our Share Dance Coordinator at natalia@newworks.ca.
DONATE
Please consider supporting New Works’ Share Dance Program! Your contribution will help us reach more young people as well as support more local dance artists.
Make a Donation to the Share Dance Program!
Share Dance is generously supported by public funders and individual donations. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Metro Vancouver’s Regional Cultural Project Grants program, the City of Vancouver and the Province of BC, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada and the National Arts Centre with their program Arts Alive.
Without your support this program would not be possible!