Ms. Tooby-MacDonald is a member of the Professional Dance Teachers Association and The National Dance Education Association, and has successfully operated her own school of dance since 1973, aiding students to achieve recognition with performing awards at local, provincial, and national levels. A progressive, energetic and dedicated teacher Janice has trained with major L.A. and New York faculties in Vancouver, Calgary, Seattle, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Las Vegas, Maui and New York. This has allowed her to further her knowledge of the art of tap dance under the tutelage of such international dance luminaries as Savion Glover, Gregory Hines, Al Gilbert, Dianne Walker, Arthur Duncan, Heather Cornell and Henry LeTang. With an extensive background in tap dance, Janice has years of experience and knowledge to share with her students. Her many experiences include choreographer for the Butchart Gardens summer stage shows for 13 years, and a member of the teaching faculty of the Canadian College Of Performing Arts since its inception in 1998.

Since the age of 3, Julianne has been in her tap shoes. She started her training and performing in tap and acrobatics with our Irene Jupp as well as modelling at LDI Models.
By the time Julianne was 7 years of age, she had expanded her styles of dance at Sinclair Academy of Performing Arts. Under the mentoring of Arabella Martin and several others, Julianne trained in song and dance, flamenco, drama, and vocal training; and took R.A.D. examinations for her ballet and national dance as well as I.S.T.D. for her modern and tap. Having passed her associate tap exam, Julianne is a qualified I.S.T.D. teacher.

Christine Barrett found her passion for dance at a young age. Starting with ballet she quickly found herself where she belongs; with her tap shoes. She is trained in a wide spectrum of other dance disciplines including modern, jazz, lyrical, musical theatre and hip hop. She began her training at Sinclair Academy of Performing Arts participating in many festivals and representing Victoria at the BC Dance Provincials.
Christine gained further training spending three summers in New York with Tap Kids, working with a variety of tap masters and choreographers. Christine attained honours on her Associate Tap Exam, making her a well certified ISTD Tap teacher.

She is currently at Camosun College completing her degree in Business, while continuing to explore her career in dance.

Kelsey has been taking tap and jazz since the age of 4. She began dancing in Winnipeg, Manitoba before coming to Victoria in 1994 to be taught by local teachers such as Sherry Black, Alison Charlton, Gail Neuman, Marlene Abney, and Lynn Stevens.
As a young teen, Kelsey performed and competed at various festivals, recitals and benefits both nationally and internationally. She has taught for studios such as Excalibur Dance, and Broadstreet Dance as well as various recreation centres throughout Victoria.
Kelsey was also the Dance Captain/choreographer for her Universities Dance Team.
A bright, enthusiastic dancer both on stage and off, Kelsey has been seen on stage numerous times. Her positive and fun personality makes her a great addition to our studio family.

Dancing since the age of 2, Stacy's dance career has spanned nearly two decades. She has trained extensively in Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, Tap, Modern, Contemporary, Lyrical, and Stage. After training in Colorado until the age of 15, she moved to Victoria and began dancing over 20 hours a week. Right out of high school, Stacy landed a position in The Source Dance Company in Vancouver, where she spent the 2006/2007 season. After sustaining numerous foot injuries, she began teaching dance while in recovery and has since grown to love it. Always pursuing new dance experiences, Stacy has travelled overseas to Italy and performed in several cities around the country. Her personal dance achievements include scholarships to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Harbour Dance Centre in Vancouver, and numerous festival awards including Most Outstanding Jazz Dancer. Stacy's choreography has also been extremely well received. She is always bringing new ideas and styles into her classes, and her energy rarely goes unnoticed. Stacy is currently working towards a Kinesiology degree at the University of Victoria while remaining active and present in the local dance community.

Angela Mousseau studied modern dance at The University of The Arts in Philadelphia with choreographers, directors and dancers from Paul Taylor Dance Company, Martha Graham Dance Company, Philadanco, Momix, Limon Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Koresh Dance Company and more. While in Philadelphia, Angela performed in the Philadelphia Fringe and the National Dance Day in Philadelphia. Upon graduating in 2002, Angela moved to New York to dance professionally. In New York she performed with Jana Hicks, AKRNYM, The Fringe and many others. Angela's class focuses on Limon, Horton and Taylor modern dance techniques. After dancing and teaching for many years in the United States, Angela is back in her hometown of Victoria— excited to share her knowledge, experience and love of dance.

Ms. Rumsey is the General Manager of Boston Dance Collective and teacher of Jazz, Lyrical and Musical Theatre. Previous to running BDC, she was the Principal for Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Studio. Ms. Rumsey earned a Bachelor of Art in Dance from SFU, and a Master of Arts in Theatre from UNLV. Ms. Rumsey’s recent choreographic works include: Hair, Rocky Horror, The Hobbit, Silverwing, Aladdin, Working The Musical, I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change, The Mahaghonny-Songspiel, The Mummer’s Mask, Pandora’s Locker and Filament.
She has had an extensive professional career that allowed for much traveling. She spent 5 years working as a dancer, singer and swing in Las Vegas at the Rio Hotel and Casino’s Masquerade Show in the Sky, as well as shows at Caesars, Harrah’s, and Studio 54 at MGM. She was a cast member of lavish Broadway revues in Japan and raucous Can-can shows in the Yukon. She was a dancer and singer in the 2001 World Tour of Sixties Mania. Most recently she danced at The Butchart Gardens in Love Matters.
Ms. Rumsey has previously taught dance classes in Toronto, Vancouver and in Victoria at Dansko Studios and Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Studio. She has been a guest jazz and ballet teacher at Canadian College of Performing Arts. Ms. Rumsey is pleased to be involved with Boston Dance Collective and is looking forward to a great year!

Danielle trained and graduated at the ‘Laine Theatre Arts College’ in London, England.
Upon completing her training in a vast array of styles,
Danielle found a real focus in Musical Theatre, Commercial and Contemporary styles.
Immediately upon finishing her training, Danielle landed the Role of ‘Joule’ in the
Original Uk Tour of ‘Starlight Express’, which she was apart of, on and off for four years.

Danielle has been a Professional Dancer/Choreographer for eight years, and her passion for all forms of dance, has allowed her a plethora of opportunities.

Danielle recently completed one year of touring the Original UK production of
‘We Will Rock You’, Queen’s West End Smash Hit Show, throughout Ireland, Scotland and England.
As well, experiencing such jobs as; a Music Video with Modonna, Presenting and Choreographing a Pop Music Video for ‘Sony BMG’ and appearing in the
Royal Variety Performance in front of the Queen. She has also been fortunate enough to take part in Professional Commercial Dancing and top end Fashion Modeling at major events in New York, Paris and London.

Danielle has also enjoyed five truly pleasurable years as a Dance Teacher at the biggest chain Stage and Dance School in England, ‘Stagecoach’.
This involved teaching all styles of Dance including; Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary, and Musical Theatre to kids ages 3-19.
She has also been teaching / choreographing her own Free-Style, Commercial, Hip-Hop classes to age’s 10-Adults and would then perform the routines with them for various events and shows around London. Danielle is very excited about the opportunity to be a member of the teaching faculty of the Canadian College Of Performing Arts

I am truly grateful that my Husband is from Beautiful British Columbia,
and that we chose to make a life for our-selves in this amazing place.
I love to Dance/Choreograph, I love Teaching and I am very excited to share my experiences and passion through teaching, here, in Victoria, at the Boston Dance.

Roberta Bierman is a passionate performer known for innovative choreography, great musicality and an energetic teaching style. Dancing since the age of five, Roberta studied many styles but the day she was introduced to hip hop, it truly captured her heart. Her hip hop crews and choreography have been recognized throughout many competitions and festivals throughout BC. Roberta’s choreography was featured in the music video "Teachers Pet" by the local group "Death to Sexy". She was chosen as a partner and instructor for Victoria’s local “Dancing with the Stars” fundraiser, “Stars on Stage”. Roberta has trained extensively throughout the U.S including New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Texas. While training in Los Angeles she had the opportunity to dance in the Silly Walks for Hunger charity event choreographed by Rich and Tone Talauega. Most recently, Roberta was invited to perform in Montreal and Austin, Texas with Tri-Tone Productions. Now residing in Vancouver BC, Roberta can be found rehearsing with TwoFourSeven Company and Diamonds in the Rough.