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Cultivating Creativity: QBSC celebrates their alumni Back to video
In celebration of International Dance Day (April 29) we’re sharing this article from the Spring 2001 issue of Umbrella magazine, available now. Established in 1972, the Quinte Ballet School of Canada (QBSC) (formerly known as the Quinte Dance school and renamed in 1992) has had a storied history of faculty members, artistic advisors and, of course, graduates. These are just two of those stories.
Sonja Boretski, a Belleville local now based in Toronto, graduated from QBSC professional training program in 2013. She says her training expanded her: “In my first year a new artistic director, John Ottman, was coming in. He brought a whole new way of viewing dance using improvisation and experimentation with movement. I thought in a linear way of dance in terms of structure and this expanded my lens,” she says. “I learned that we can utilize techniques but ultimately it’s the individual that brings this movement to life.”