Lila is a current Minto Dance Academy student and she is very excited to bring her dance skills and ideas to teach the youngest dancers for the 2025-2026 dance season!

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Lila has a dance and gymnastics background where she began both at a young age starting with ballet, jazz, tap, recreation gymnastics, then participated as a dancer in local theatre productions as well a community dance club helping participants learn the choreography. Lila was looking for more dance technique training and found that with MDA’s ballet exam classes. Since coming to MDA, she has enjoyed ballet, acro, pointe, lyrical, contemporary and commercial dance classes. To further her development, Lila successfully completed her Royal Academy of Dance Intermediate Foundations Ballet Exam and also participated in an Acro Intensive at Performance Dance Academy (PDA) in Guelph.

 

Lila has received awards and high marks for her dance performances at area festivals including a Bruce Power Scholarship Adjudicator Award for her Open class solo (a blend of contemporary, acro and lyrical) at the South Western Ontario Rotary Music Festival. More recently, Lila pursued growth in dance instruction and leadership skills as part of a high school co-operative learning course. Her placements included assisting with teaching summer dance at MDA and at an acro dance camp at PDA as well as training as a leader for Camp Spark, a local performing arts/theatre program of Studio410.

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When she’s not in the studio, Lila is a gymnastics coach, enjoys participating in various sports, shops consignment boutiques and spends time with family, friends and her bunnies Lacy and Daisy.

Lila is passionate to inspire young dancers to learn and grow in an active, fun environment with a foundation of dance technique while providing inclusive spaces supporting each dancer’s needs.