Elementary Dance Education

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

Pomer is the author of two previous Human Kinetics titles: Perpetual Motion: Creative Movement Exercises for Dance & Dramatic Arts (2002) and Dance Composition: An Interrelated Arts Approach (2009). She creates study guides for boards of education, provides dance resources for dance companies and festivals, and designs interactive school tours and programs for art galleries and museums that incorporate creative movement as the catalyst for deepening students’ understanding and appreciation of the exhibits.

Barry Prophet is a composer, sound artist, installation artist, sculptor, and educator whose music has appeared in galleries and theatres in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Creating unique sounds since 1979, he has been praised for his innovativeness: “Prophet gently blows the doors off our settled notions of timbre and tonality” (Robert Everett-Green in Globe and Mail). He performs traditional and experimental percussion (including his microtonally tuned glass percussion performance sculptures), electro-acoustic compositions, and environmental sound art.

Barry’s outdoor interactive sound sculptures include “Synthecycletron,” commissioned by New Adventures in Sound Art as a seasonally permanent attraction on Toronto Island (2007-2018), and “Sound Booth,” which was part of W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery’s Ice Follies 2010 exhibition and was later featured in the book Mobitecture: Architecture on the Move (Phaidon, 2017).