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Deborah
Lundmark
 Founder and Artistic Director
Deborah Lundmark ranks among Canada’s leading specialists in
movement for the young with thirty years’ experience as both a ballet instructor
and a supervisor of teachers-in-training. Ms. Lundmark founded the School of
Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre in 1983, where she has trained the studio’s
second generation of teachers, some of whom began as children in her Creative
Movement classes. She has
developed, refined and taught Ontario curriculum-related material
over the past two decades.
Ms. Lundmark played a key role in both the
development and the delivery of the Toronto District Board of
Education’s Drama/Dance Project, and frequently is called upon
by educators to share her experience of dance and the child. She is
Artistic Director and Senior Arts Education Outreach Teacher for the
Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre performing company.
Touring nationally and abroad with CCDT, Deborah has shared her
expertise with teachers from Barrie to Beijing. She has been a
faculty member of Ryerson Polytechnic University’s Department
of Dance since 1992, specializing in teacher training.
Our School Faculty &
Staff
Faculty
Creative Movement:
Syreeta Hector, Joel Seaman, Whitney Mah
Ballet: Deborah Lundmark,
Carmen Duncan, Bob McCollum, Syreeta Hector
Modern: Arwyn Carpenter, Joel
Seaman
Jazz: Kalie Hunter
Tap: Shannon Bond
Hip Hop: Miranda Abbott
Music & Movement: Anne Stadlmair
Accompanists
Paul Bircher, Craig Ziebarth, Gordon Brown, Dimitry
Zavrotsky, Marina Moroz, James Langevin, Blake Howard, Robin Buckley
Staff
Deborah Lundmark, Artistic Director, e-mail: dlundmark@ccdt.org
Laura Kappel, School Administrator, e-mail: schoolofccdt@ccdt.org
Heather Campbell, Marketing
& Development, e-mail:
development@ccdt.org
Teachers
Arwyn Carpenter
Modern
 Arwyn Carpenter strives to encourage the dance that is
inside of everyone. She wants particularly to welcome more boys/men to the art form and
people with non-traditional dancers bodies.
She is a respected teacher
of modern and creative dance, yoga, African, classical ballet, Brazilian,
hip hop, poetry, storytelling, Limon modern technique and incorporates
elements from these into her classes.
She holds an MFA in dance performance
and choreography from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and is writing
her second dance-related book, this one focusing on the unique experience
of male dancers.
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RBS (TC) AISTD Cecc, Mod, Nat
Ballet
 Born in England, Carmen
Duncan began her training at the Arts Educational School, Tring continuing
on to the Royal Ballet School, London to gain her teaching qualifications.
From there she proceeded to teach internationally, maintaining close
connections with the Royal Ballet through her work at their annual Summer
Schools, Associate Programmes and often working at the Royal Opera House
with students involved in the Nutcracker.
While in Cyprus she was
assistant principle of a Dance School and has coached many students
through their RAD and ISTD exams taking pride in her commitment to train a
new generation of intellectually vibrant dancers. In 2006 she began a 3 year Degree in Dance Education in
her pursuit to continue her on education in tandem with that of her
students. An interest in Notation has seen her complete a 2 year
correspondence course in Benesh Notation in the hope one day to be a fully
qualified Choreologist.
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Miranda Abbott Hip Hop
 Miranda began her professional training at 10 years at the
National Ballet School of Canada. To broaden her dance training, also
studied at L’École Supérieure de Danse du Québec. In 1996 Miranda joined
CCDT. The next three years were spent touring across Canada and performing
the original and memorable works of many choreographers including David
Earle, Carol Anderson and New York’s Keith Lee.
Miranda completed her
studies at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, having received classes
from some of the country’s most gifted dancers and teachers. She has also
performed the works of Sonya Biernath, Lesandra Dodson, Christopher House,
José Limón, Coralee McLaren, Sharon Moore, Julia Sasso and Michael Trent. In addition to teaching at the School of CCDT, Miranda
is on the teaching staff at The York School and the Royal Conservatory of
Music. With the Conservatory, Miranda is one of many Ontario artists that
are members of Learning Through the Arts, a program that places artists in
schools across the GTA to teach school curriculum through art, and in her
case, dance and movement.
Kalie Hunter Jazz
 Originally from Victoria, BC, Kalie
Hunter is a 2004 graduate of the School of Alberta Ballet and the
University of Calgary. Upon graduation, Kalie was lucky enough to
participate in a dance travel study to Poland, where she toured, performed
and learned from some of Europe's best.
On return to Canada, she spent one season dancing with
Calgary based contemporary company, "La Caravan Dance Theatre." Going back
to her jazz roots, Kalie spent some time in Montreal training with Les
Ballets Jazz de Montreal, before heading on a Silverseas world cruise
where she performed in jazz, ballet, contemporary, tap and as a featured
silks aerial acrobat.
Currently she considers Toronto home, and is a member
of Ballet Espressivo, The Dance Company, and she continues to train in
jazz under full scholarship at Metro Movement.
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