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Led by Artistic director Davi Rodrigues, the program offers dancers the opportunity to immerse themselves in a high level of technical training, original choreography, study with accomplished teachers and learn the motivation behind a professional dance company. Lamondance was established as a contemporary training and performance company for emerging professional dancers in 2009 by Lara Barclay and Monica Proença.

Lamondance provides the dancers with the opportunity to explore dance and allow them to perform throughout the community and abroad. It also provides a forum for choreographers/teachers to develop and present their own works. The mandate of the program is to provide dancers with the opportunity to learn dance techniques, individually or as a group, which will assist in developing a well-rounded dancer with self-confidence, discipline and focus; which will promote good work ethics and help them in their quest to achieve higher standards and better performance. Through the program, we teach our dancers to mentor their peer group and lead by example; with the intention of not only creating model citizens but model dancers.

Former Lamondancers have gone on to international companies such as “São Paulo Cia de Dança” (Brazil), “Divinadança” (Brazil),“Nordhausen Ballet” (Germany), “Theater Osnabrück” (Germany), “Halle Opera House” (Germany), “Grazer Oper” (Austria), “Tanzkompanie der Oper Graz” (Germany),Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, “Wen Wei Dance” (Canada), among others.

The program operates as a Not-For-Profit Society, working under the umbrella of RNB Dance and Theatre Arts, based in North Vancouver.