Codi Dalen RAD RTS, AAC

Codi Dalen is a Registered Teacher (RTS) with the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), Acrobatic Arts (AAC) and Alixa Flexibility Level 1 Certified.

Her experiences as the Founder and Director of Soul Funktion Dance Studio in Whistler, BC, and also, in her search to help her students connect to that confident and innocently pure centre of expression within, she was guided to the Bartenieff/Laban principles. These principles offer a guide through the physical deeply into the connections with the mind and spirit. She’s had the opportunity to study this material with Mariah-Jane Thies, Vancouver, BC; Bill Evans, Brockport State University, NY; and Peggy Hackney and Janice Meadon, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
During the last two and a half decades of teaching dance, with an extensive background in Ballet, Tap and other commercial disciplines, Codi has come to believe the following “FUNdamentals;”
- An essential way we learn is through the body,
- Emotional involvement is required to learn,
- Engaging a student in an exploratory learning process is an invaluable skill for a teacher. Thus motivating one's emotions, and therefore a consequent desire to learn,
- Everyone has a right to feel comfortable in their body and be able to express feelings through movement in a safe environment,
- And lastly, children come from a place of knowing spirit and come from a place of joy.