Celebrating our 21st

season!

2004-2025

Caring for the Creators of Tomorrow

Dance Styles Offered

Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Jazz, Hip Hop, Acrobatics, Dance & Sing and Conditioning

Pre Professional Programs

Half Day En Avant
Evening En Avant

WAPA is focused on guiding each dancer as a whole and understands that dance can be many different things for different students. Every dancer is different in the way they learn, grow, set goals and process. WAPA is here to individualize each dancers’ training and find the best path for each person!

Studio Values

Creative Exploration

• Creative Exploration is the base of all our movement, artistry, choreography and studio visions. Fostering a creative outlook for everyone at WAPA invites out of the box thinking, ideas and integration. Creativity is a prominent life skill of the future

Wholehearted Community

• WAPA’s wholehearted community strives to lead by example, nurturing all people around them and consistently adding new training methods that bring out the best in each dancer. Take the leap and soar knowing you have the whole community cheering you on!

Integrity Promise

• We promise to uphold the integrity of our dancers, our quality of training and our business practices. Everyone can rest easy knowing we are all treated in a fair and individual way.

Everyone can dance with the right encouragement!

Our Studio is located on the unceded territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples. We acknowledge this first, learn from it and listen to it.

“WAPA provided me with the best possible training to accomplish my goal of attending SEAD in Salzburg.”

— Pearl Edmunds

OUR GRADUATES!

Julian Stark - Trinity Laban Conservatorie of Music and Dance London UK

Mira Sobkin - Alonzo King Lines BFA Program San Fransisco

Amélie MacDonald - Modus Operandi Dance Program Vancouver

Marin Crane - PERA Dance Program Cyprus

Larryssa Yolland - Kibbutz Dance Company Program Israel

Rachel Tarasoff - Capilano Collage Musical Theatre Diploma Program

Suzy Vining - Cecchetti Canada Teachers Associate

Melissa Burstall - Cecchetti Canada Teachers Associate

Allison McNeill - ISTD Modern Theatre Teachers Associates

Pearl Edmunds - SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance & RAD Solo Seal Participant

MacKenzie Poland - Harbour Dance Post-Grad Program

Danika Postle - Ryerson University Dance Degree Program & RAD Solo Seal Participant

Melissa Burstall - ISTD Modern Theatre Teachers Associates

Chloe Meissner - Convergence Contemporary Ballet Company

Cecilia Shang - Princeton University Dance Team Choreographer

Sara MacKenzie - Convergence Contemporary Ballet Company & RAD Solo Seal Participant

Julia Barrett - ISTD Modern Theatre Teachers Associates

Talita Nell - ISTD Modern Theatre Teachers Associates

Emily McNeil-Smith - RAD Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies

Melissa Kwan - Tap Kids

Alyssa Talley - Canada’s National Ballet School Teachers Program