Artistic Director & Faculty:
Devon Stone, AISTD (Assoc. Dip. Cecchetti)
Artistic Director
Devon Stone, Artistic Director of Collingwood School of Dance, has
been teaching for over ten years. Miss. Stone is a graduate of the
intensive School of Alberta Ballet Teacher Training Program. Her
credentials include Associate Diploma membership with the Imperial
Society of Teachers of Dancing Cecchetti Society Classical Ballet
Faculty, the Cecchetti Society of Canada and Cecchetti
International-Classical Ballet. Miss. Stone has also successfully
completed the Applied Anatomy and Physiology Relating to Dance course.
Miss. Stone’s professional ballet training began at the Quinte Ballet
School at the age of thirteen. She then attended the National Ballet
School; and settled in at The School of Dance in Ottawa, where she
graduated from their five-year Professional Ballet Program. While in
Ottawa, Miss. Stone received the prestigious Celia Franca Scholarship
Award. During her final year, Miss. Stone performed Psalmo de Vente, a
solo choreographed by Owen Montague for the Happy Birthday Celia Franca
Gala, presented at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
In the summer of 2001 Miss. Stone attended the Dance Training Program at the Banff Performing Arts Centre, where she performed and was awarded a solo variation, choreographed by Brian Macdonald. Miss. Stone teaches all dance classes at Collingwood School of Dance, insuring that each dancer gets the very best training.
Collingwood
School of Dance would like to introduce our NEW Jazz, Lyrical and Hiphop
Instructor, Amanda Hunter.
Amanda was born and raised in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and began her
training in dance at the tender age of three. She took classes locally
at Turning Pointe as well as Studio Dance Arts, under the direction of
Richard Kim. Her studies included the disciplines of ballet, jazz, tap,
modern, hiphop and lyrical. She became a competitive dancer at the age
of eight and traveled to competitions in Canada and the United States.
Amanda was also a fixture of many Sault productions including, Arkangel
Drumdance, the Ontario Winter Games Opening Ceremonies, events for
Algoma Fall Festival, the Madrigal at Kewadin's Dreamworks Theatre as
well as the Musical Comedy Guild's Chicago.
Amanda studied dance at Toronto's George Brown College, graduating from
Dance Foundations as well as the Commercial Dance Program. While
attending school, Amanda was a company member of Combustion! The Young
Company under the direction of Annie Wood. She participated in many
performances in the Toronto area including a showcase with
Toronto's Female Hiphop group, The HoneyKats and FfIDa.
Upon graduation Amanda accepted a contract with Celebrity Cruise Lines,
performing on their ship, the Zenith as well as Celebrity's Infinity.
