Janice Pomer

Janice Pomer has been teaching, performing and creating in the fields of dance, music, and physical theatre in Canada since 1976. Based in Toronto (Tkaronto) Ontario Janice offers dance and creative movement experiences for movers of all ages and abilities in urban, rural, northern, and First Nations communities visiting schools, post-secondary institutes, dance studios and cultural centres.

Janice is the author of three books on Dance and Movement Education published by Human Kinetics (USA) Perpetual Motion: Creative Movement Exercises for Dance & Dramatic Arts (2002), Dance Composition: An Interrelated Arts Approach (2009) and the newly released Elementary Dance Education: Nature-Themed Creative Movement and Collaborative Learning (2022). Her books have been hailed as ‘inspiring’, ‘invaluable’, ‘dynamic’, and ‘multidimensional’ by dance educators from around the world.