Latin Night at Joseph Brant Museum featuring danceScape Get ready to taste, move, and experience culture in motion at Joseph Brant Museum during the dine & dance series presented alongside the special exhibition eat make share: a taste of immigration. This unique evening invites guests to explore culture through food, music, storytelling, and dance. Guests will enjoy hors d’oeuvres and beverages inspired by different regions of the world...

Bringing Culture to Life Through Food, Music, Movement & Shared Experience The Museums of Burlington has invited danceScape to help lead a series of community cultural activations connected to eat make share: a taste of immigration — an exhibition exploring how food, tradition, memory, and shared experiences shape the immigrant journey and multicultural life in Canada. Designed to move beyond traditional exhibition viewing, these...

A Conversation on Organ Transplants, Faith, Family, and Resilience with Aradhana Massey A conversation with Aradhana Massey about organ transplantation, gratitude, faith, immigration, family, resilience, healing, and community connection through the Sakura Project and danceScape. There are conversations that stay with you long after they end. Not because they are loud.Not because they are dramatic. But because they are honest. Our recent...

Strength, Dance, Storytelling — and the Meaning of the Moments In Between There are conversations that inform. And then there are conversations that stay with you. Our recent conversation with Deborah Jayne Riley Smith was the latter. What began as an interview became a reflection on family, illness, caregiving, creativity, and the moments that matter most when life becomes uncertain. A Connection That Began with Dance We first met Deborah not...

Honouring Loved Ones Beneath the Cherry Blossoms — and the Beauty of Passing Moments A Spring Gathering to Honour Loved Ones who have Passed & Ancestors Spencer Smith Park, Burlington 🗓 Saturday, May 2, 2026⏰ 10:30 – 11:15 AM📍 Spencer Smith Park (by the cherry trees along the lake) Click here to RSVP A Moment Beneath the Blossoms Each spring, the cherry blossoms bloom along the lake at Spencer Smith Park in downtown...

Pre-order Mark Zelinski’s new photographic book Land Between Waters through danceScape and help support the danceScape Endowment Fund — a legacy initiative investing in arts, culture, and community well-being in Burlington and beyond. Sometimes a book is more than a book. Sometimes it becomes a bridge — connecting art, land, community, and the stories that shape who we are. danceScape is honoured to collaborate with award-winning Canadian...

On April 29, 2026, danceScape was invited to bring the joy of movement to Good Shepherd SAM Central in Hamilton, Ontario, for International Dance Day. A Heartfelt Thank You A big thank you to Erin and the entire team at Good Shepherd SAM Central for the warm welcome and for inviting us to celebrate International Dance Day with your wonderful group. Your clients brought so much joy and energy to the room — the smiles, laughter, and enthusiastic...

Cha Cha, Cherry Blossoms & Community Impact At Spencer Smith Park, with cherry blossoms set to bloom in the coming weeks, danceScape marked an important milestone alongside Megan Tregunno, President & CEO of the Burlington Community Foundation. With a contribution of $20,000, the danceScape Endowment Fund has now grown to over $25,000 in endowed capital — reaching the level where it can begin supporting local registered charities...

At danceScape, we have always believed that movement, music, and human connection are powerful forces for well-being. That belief is at the heart of the danceScape Endowment Fund, established through the Burlington Community Foundation to support community initiatives that bring the benefits of movement, arts, and cultural experiences to people of all ages. One example of this mission in action recently took place on April 16th at Florence...

Strength, Dance, Storytelling — and the Meaning of the Moments In Between There are conversations that inform. And then there are conversations that stay with you. Our recent conversation with Deborah Jayne Reilly Smith was the latter. A Connection That Began with Dance Deborah first connected with us not long after she arrived in Canada in 2001 — when she reached out with her background in ballroom dance from South Africa. There was something...