Corner Brook Dance Hub

10/05/2026

A huge congratulations to Joël on receiving the Roberta Thomas Legacy Award!

We’re so grateful to have Joël as part of The Corner Brook Dance Hub team, and to witness the creativity and passion they bring to their work and to our dancers. Well deserved! 🤍

We are so excited to introduce our 2026 Roberta Thomas Legacy Award Recipient: Joël Azevedo ()

Joël is a contemporary dance artist based in Corner Brook, NL / ktaqmkuk. Their practice spans choreography and performance, dramaturgy and stage management, and more recently administration and producing. They lead with curiosity and love unknotting knots, whether fibrous, logistical or creative. Their practice is firmly rooted in contemporary dance and dance-theatre, but their research and training also includes forms like karaoke, zumba, social dance, and arts leadership - as well as being influenced by clowning and devising. Joël gravitates toward collaborative and community-engaged processes.

This 2026 Roberta Thomas Legacy Award supports the development of a template for “dancing autobiographies”; a creative framework inviting people to explore and communicate their stories, memories, pleasures, fears and hopes through movement. The project grows from Joël’s interest in dance as a form of communication beyond spoken language and their commitment to accessibility, collaboration and community engagement. The award will support initial research and development with collaborators in Corner Brook, NL.

Corner Brook Dance Hub
Photo by Tyler Brown

10/03/2026

Get to know Hilary, one of our talented teachers at Corner Brook Dance Hub! 🤍

Hilary Knee is a dance artist, choreographer, and dance instructor based in Corner Brook, NL, and has a diploma in contemporary dance from Dance Arts Institute (formerly The School of Toronto Dance Theatre). She studied pedagogy and anatomy as well as Graham, Limon, and Horton techniques, ballet, improvisation, composition, and clowning as part of her post-secondary education in dance.

As a dance instructor, Hilary values healthy teaching practices, positivity, curiosity, learning through dance, building new skills, encouraging confidence in the young dancers she teaches, as well as a strong technical foundation.

Hilary has enjoyed teaching full-time since returning home to NL in 2021, teaching in Corner Brook (Dance Studio West, Graham Academy), Deer Lake (Nomad Stages) and as part of Kittiwake Dance Theatre’s Summer Intensive faculty (2022, 2023). Hilary has experience instructing students ages 2 to adult in dance styles including ballet, contemporary, modern, jazz, pre pointe, creative movement, dance fitness, and more! Knee has experience teaching private, semi-private lessons, and group classes.

Q: What is your favourite form of dance to teach/dance?

Modern/Contemporary

09/30/2026

Hello!
We are looking to borrow an electric typewriter (in working condition) for our show tomorrow.
Please let us know if you have one we can borrow from you.
Thanks 🤗

09/30/2026

Final rehearsals are underway as we get ready for Found in Translation and Other Dances tomorrow evening!

Join us at the Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre at 7 PM and come see what we’ve been working on.

09/30/2026

We go up TOMORROW at the Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre. We can't wait to share this program with you!

Get your tickets at the box office or online here: https://artsandculturecentre.com/cornerbrook/online/

Join us for a fun and inspiring evening of dance theatre!

The evening begins with Jacinte Armstrong’s Found in Translation, an engaging, interactive dance piece structured like a game of broken telephone. Input your ideas into the machine and see what emerges when professional and student dancers work together in an exciting improvisation challenge!

The second half features a special showcase of short contemporary dances for Corner Brook audiences. You’ll see old favorites, remixes, and new experiments by Josh Murphy, Joël Azevedo, Candice Pike, and Julia Carr.

Performed by the choreographers, Corner Brook Dance Hub Dance Leaders, and some favourite local performers, this collection showcases an engaging mix of music and themes from memory to comedy to, um, airport security procedures?!

Experience the joy of our regional dance community in a celebration of artistic connection and community! 🤍

For tickets, visit the Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre box office or website: https://artsandculturecentre.com/cornerbrook/Online/default.asp

09/29/2026

Our Dance Leaders have been hard at work with Jacinte Armstrong, getting ready for Thursday’s Found in Translation and Other Dances!

Come see what they’ve been creating and join us for an evening of dance! 🤍

Tickets can be purchased at the Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre box office, or online at: https://artsandculturecentre.com/cornerbrook/online/

09/26/2026

Get to know Joël, one of the familiar faces helping make things happen at Corner Brook Dance Hub!🤍

Joël began dancing around the age of 12 in Moncton NB, and eventually fell in love with it (after a few years of not really knowing what they were getting themself into). Growing up Joël studied ballet, tap, modern, jazz, and more before heading to Simon Fraser University to focus on contemporary dance performance. Now they work as a professional dance artist creating and performing works all over the country. At Corner Brook Dance Hub you might see their name on emails, or their face behind the front desk, in addition to inside the studio teaching.

Q: What is your favourite form of dance to teach/dance?

I started to really enjoy doing and teaching ballet during the pandemic. I love that every class follows a predictable structure and I can let go of all the other dramas of my day while I'm doing the barre. Even when it's slower or simpler, I can still work very hard because there are always little things to remember.
I also love trying new dances, there are so many different kinds! The last new style I tried was a South Indian dance form called Kuthu -- and I had a blast even though I didn't know if I was doing anything right.

09/22/2026

Keira will be performing in a special presentation of Turncoat Hill this weekend. If you're looking for something fun this weekend, we recommend supporting local performing arts :)

“The settings are so intimate that one can become totally engaged with the actors and truly feel the stories. This is the performing arts at their finest."
- A J Graham Post Show Survey

Make sure to purchase your ticket today for Turncoat Hill, a co-production between Camber Arts and King's Point Theatre Project, written by Rory Lambert, follow the story of Beth and Thomas, of young love blossoming, and of the stories we tell each other and ourselves.

Featuring: Ian Locke & Keira Clarke
Director: Kassie Lukeman
Designer: Harry Tibbo
September 25 & 26, 7:30 PM Blow-Me-Down SkiLodge, outdoor performance. Bench seating is provided, patrons are welcome to their own seating.
Tickets are available through the Camber Arts box office, online at www.camberarts.ca/events, or by phone at (709)638-1956. Office hours Monday to Friday 11-4.

09/22/2026

Join us for a fun and inspiring evening of dance theatre!

The evening begins with Jacinte Armstrong’s Found in Translation, an engaging, interactive dance piece structured like a game of broken telephone. Input your ideas into the machine and see what emerges when professional and student dancers work together in an exciting improvisation challenge!

The second half features a special showcase of short contemporary dances for Corner Brook audiences. You’ll see old favorites, remixes, and new experiments by Josh Murphy, Joël Azevedo, Candice Pike, and Julia Carr.

Performed by the choreographers, Corner Brook Dance Hub Dance Leaders, and some favourite local performers, this collection showcases an engaging mix of music and themes from memory to comedy to, um, airport security procedures?!

Experience the joy of our regional dance community in a celebration of artistic connection and community! 🤍

For tickets, visit the Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre box office or website: https://artsandculturecentre.com/cornerbrook/Online/default.asp

06/15/2026

Registration is now open for our 2026/2027 Dance Season including classes for every age, skill, and experience level. Whether you're looking for Parent & Tot classes; Jazz-Pop, Tap, Ballet, Modern classes for young dancers; or ready to try classes for yourself, now is the time to visit cornerbrookdancehub.com to view our Fall schedule and register.

🐦Early bird registration expires June 30th, so act quickly to save on all of our year-long classes.

Enjoy your summer and we'll see you in the Fall 😎

Registration Group ClassesRegistration for our Term 3 is now available! Check out our updated class schedule here. You can register for an account on the Class Manager Portal and enrol using this link. There you will be prompted to create a customer account and for yourself/your family, add students...