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We believe in the transformative power of movement.
LET'S DANCE!
IT'S AS EASY AS 1, 2, 3
Dance has the power to transform—it builds confidence, strengthens your mindset, and changes how you move through life. Whether you're here to grow, recharge, or just have fun, we’re here to support your journey.
Step in, let go, and discover what dance can do for you!
Step 1: Create Your Account
Step 1: Create Your Account
Create Your Account and then come back here for step 2.
Step 2: Get Your Free Code
Step 2: Get Your Free Code
Try your first class for free! Use code: FIRSTFREE
Step 3: Book Your Class
Step 3: Book Your Class
What to Expect When You Arrive
What to Expect When You Arrive
Arrive 10-15 minutes early to get checked, pick a locker, and get familiar with the space. Wear comfortable clothing and shoes appropriate for your chosen style of dance— Footwear guidelines can be found in your class description. Outdoor shoes are not permitted inside of the dance studios. Don’t forget a water bottle to stay hydrated!
Parking and Location
Parking and Location
We offer free street parking on Portage Avenue, Strathcona Street, and Ashburn Street. Be sure to check signs for time restrictions.
Studio Etiquette
Studio Etiquette
Be mindful of others in the space. We recommend warming up before class and staying for a cool down to prevent injury. Respect the floors and avoid wearing outdoor shoes or broken heels without caps, as this could damage the studio floor. Leave your phone in your bag while class is on. Checking your phone during class, is rude. Exceptions made for those of you on-call!
How It All Started:
How It All Started:
Drop In Dance Winnipeg began in the summer of 2017, born from a love of dance and a desire to create more opportunities for movement in our city. At the time, I was looking for a way to keep dancing as an adult—something that wasn’t about competition or strict rules, just the pure joy of moving. Dance became my outlet, my anchor, especially after losing my dad. What started as a personal passion quickly became something bigger: a welcoming space where people could dance, connect, and grow.
From Humble Beginnings To a Space of Our Own:
From Humble Beginnings To a Space of Our Own:
In the early days, I cleaned studios in exchange for studio space, just so I could keep dancing and teaching. Word spread, and soon, others were asking to join. We started running classes out of NAFRO Dance Productions from Fall 2017 to early 2019, slowly building a community of dancers who wanted a space that felt good—one where they could be themselves. In 2019, we took a leap and opened our own brick & mortar, creating a home for everyone who loves dance, no matter their experience level.
What We're About:
What We're About:
At Drop In Dance Winnipeg, we believe dance should be fun, accessible, and free from pressure. Our studio is for everyone—whether you're an experienced dancer or just starting out, whether you want to refine your skills or simply move for the joy of it. We’re here to help you build confidence, find connection, and experience the art of dance in a way that feels good to you.
More Than Just Dance Classes:
More Than Just Dance Classes:
Life is busy, and finding time for yourself can be tough. That’s why we keep things simple—no rigid dress codes, no competitive pressure, just great classes and a welcoming community. Dance is more than movement; it’s a form of self-expression, a way to de-stress, and an opportunity to meet people who share the same love for it.
Join the Dance Revolution:
Join the Dance Revolution:
Whether you're dropping in for a single class or making dance a regular part of your life, we’re here to support you. Come as you are, find your rhythm, and be part of a studio that celebrates movement in all its forms.
Can’t wait to dance with you!
Maria Rawluk
Founder & Director of Drop In Dance Winnipeg
@dropindancewpg
THE FACULTY
THE FACULTY
We believe in the transformative power of movement.
Maria Rawluk
Maria Rawluk
Meet Maria Rawluk (she/her), a passionate dancer and the founder of Drop In Dance Winnipeg (est. 2017). With over 30 years of dance experience and 20 years of teaching under her belt, she is a true lover of all things dance!
Maria's mission is to provide a fun and welcoming dance experience for all, regardless of their dance background. At Drop In Dance Winnipeg, Maria and her team are dedicated to helping dancers of all ages and levels discover the joy and magic of dance. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or taking your first steps on the dance floor, you'll feel comfortable and supported at Drop In Dance Winnipeg.
Al Gilbert
Al Gilbert
Al Gilbert is a queer artist based in Winnipeg and Oakville, Ontario. With experience in dance, acting, and singing, Al has performed and taught within various Winnipeg companies, and he is currently studying Music Theatre Performance at Sheridan College (graduating Spring 2027). Al aims to use his craft to uplift others, drive change, and build a better future.
Alex Ireland
Alex Ireland
Aléxe Laroche
Aléxe Laroche
Alèxe is a dancer, dance instructor and choreographer with more than 11 years of experience. She has been training in many styles of dance for the past 16 years. Her passion for dance has brought her all around the world! She has trained everywhere from Vancouver to Toronto, Portland, Oregon to Brisbane, Australia and Chicago, Illinois. Alèxe currently teaches at Drop In Dance Winnipeg, Quantum Dance Academy and Heel Appeal.
Amy Thomas
Amy Thomas
Amy Thomas pronounced Amyboo is a committed & passionate dancer, and choreographer. She has been dancing & training at Drop In Dance Winnipeg since March of 2019. Since taking dance classes at Drop in Dance Winnipeg it’s remarkable how fast she has grown as a dancer.
During the pandemic Amy had continued to train consistently and take advantage of the virtual classes offered allowing her to train with choreographers from all over the world. She has travelled to many cities including LA, New York, Toronto, Montreal and most recently London, England to continue her training.
Amy is incredibly thankful for her wonderful mentors, teachers, students, friends, and family that give her endless energy and light! Bringing other choreographers' creations to life as well as working on her own choreographic creations is what fuels her.
Amy views dancing as an expression outlet. She uses her online platform to share the message that it’s never too late to start moving and dancing no matter your age or your life stage, it’s never too late to use dancing to share your message and what you are passionate about with the world.
Alia Ross
Alia Ross
Breanna Markiewicz
Breanna Markiewicz
Brooklynn Wood
Brooklynn Wood
Brooklynn Wood danced for 12 years, mainly hip hop and jazz, before aging out at her studio. She found Drop In Dance a few years later and after only a month of dancing here, got a position at the front desk! From both working and dancing here, Brooklynn always talks about how friendly and supportive everyone is and how she’s become friends with many of the dancers here. It has even encouraged her to try new dance styles, like heels.
Working here for over 3 years now, Brooklynn works on creating social media posts for Instagram like editing the Dancer Spotlight and POV reels, as well as the weekly schedule posts.
Cassie Burns
Cassie Burns
Cassie has been been dancing since she was 3 years old. She grew up as a competitive dancer, learning various styles, and now is working as a professional dancer for Disney Cruise Line, a role she's held since 2020. Throughout her childhood, she trained at Industria Dance Centre, and later continued her dance education at Kick It Dance and Royal Winnipeg Ballet Studio for a year. Cassie then went on to further her training at LA Dance Academy and Westwood Dance Program, as well as Drop In Dance Winnipeg. Her first class at Drop In was a heels class, and she immediately fell in love with the studio. As an instructor, Cassie mainly teaches lyrical, contemporary, jazz, and jazz technique at the studio.
Chelsea Humble
Chelsea Humble
Dana Lance
Dana Lance (she/her/elle) is a mover, dancer, teacher, and emerging choreographer that has been dancing for roughly 12 years while residing on Treaty 1 territory. She currently teaches at CCFM (Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain) and with the RET Life program. Her love of teaching comes from her passion of encouraging students and mentoring them wherever they may be in their dance career. She has been teaching for various events and workshops making her adaptable to various age groups and sizes.
Dana has been fortunate enough to train in various styles of dance such as Hip Hop, Breaking, House, and now with a focus on Vogue and Waacking/Punking. Her love of freestyle has been instilled with the mentors she grew up with and is incorporated into her practice. This has also lead her into battling in the local Winnipeg dance community for various events. In addition she co-leads 393 dance troupe, a local performance troupe that showcases in Hip Hop/street dances. She is also one of the original founders of illicit dance crew, a Kpop cover dance crew that has been performing regularly since 2017. Dana hopes to continue as both teacher and a student in dance for as long as she can.
Delaney Giesbrecht
Delaney Giesbrecht
Delaney Giesbrecht is currently living in Los Angeles California at AMDA studying for her BFA in dance theatre. Delaney has trained with top choreography under Teddy Forance’s CLI Conservatory program along with teacher from the AMDA NYC & LA campus. Delaney is alumni from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s ITP and ensemble programs and is also alumni from the pre professional program at Shelley Shearer School of Dance. Delaney has been apart of a couple local productions here in Winnipeg like Shrek the musical, Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, The Wizard of Oz (Rainbow Stage) and Billy Elliott (RMTC). Delaney is very excited to bring her knowledge she has gained over the years and share her choreography and artistry with her hometown. Looking forward to spending her summer with all the talented dancers in Winnipeg!
Ellie Natoza
Ellie Natoza
Ellie has been dancing with Drop In Dance since 2019 and later joined the faculty in 2021. She trained in Hip Hop and is associated with HopsKotch dance crew as a member, as well as a choreographer. She is also one of the creators of the segment you often see on our Instagram - Sunday Funday Kpop Reel.
Emma Petit
Emma Petit
Emma Petit is a Canadian dance artist originally from Montreal and is now based out of Winnipeg, Mb and Regina, Sk. Emma is in her third year studying in the Professional Program at the School of Contemporary Dancers and has trained in various styles of dance for 14 years.
She has had the pleasure to train and work with The Fada Dance Company, Youth Ballet Company, Wind Flower Dance Co, Toronto Dance Theatre, Nafro Dance Productions, and many other establishments along the years. Emma is also an emerging choreographer and teacher in the dance scene and is currently working on honing her skills in, mostly but not exclusively, contemporary dance.
Genie Baffoe
Genie Baffoe
Eugene "GeNie" Baffoe is a freestyle dancer, educator, choreographer and DJ originally from Montreal Québec. GeNie has been training, instructing and studying Hip Hop culture for over a decade filling each class with high energy movement with historical perspectives, stories and context. Come party with ya boy!
Greg McGlenning
Greg McGlenning
Hannah Arras
Hannah Arras
Jaimi Deleau
Jaimi Deleau
Katrina McQuade
Katrina McQuade
Katrina McQuade is an artist that places passion at the forfront of her craft. Katrina has been dancing and choreographing for the better part of her life and a leader in the local community since 2013. Katrina has trained in many styles of dance locally, virtually, and internationally, most recently dancehall in the Mecca of Jamaica which heavily influences her artistic syling. A versatile artist with a special interest in street styles and secondary interest in female empowerment within the heels discipline, Katrina is credited in many local shows and music videos. Katrina can also be caught working/ teaching at Heel Appeal and directing the local dance crew she founded, hopsKotch.
Kay Macdonald
Kay MacDonald started teaching at the studio this spring and has quickly become a favorite among her students. She brings warmth, fun, and a love for ballet, jazz, and musical theatre to every class. Kay goes above and beyond to make sure every dancer feels supported, learns lots, and has a great time. She’s also a student nurse, serves on the board for the Selkirk Dance Association, and is the event coordinator for Tarantism Dance Company.
Kelsey Thomas
Kelsey Thomas
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Kelsey Thomas has been dancing and choreographing for much of her life. She studied ballet extensively growing up and completed her Royal Academy of Dance graded exams. She began teaching ballet as an adult and found that she had a knack for explaining difficult technical concepts in a simple and hands-on manner.
Kelsey is experienced in creating tap, lyrical, contemporary, ballet, and jazz pieces for the stage.
Having studied instruments and singing in choirs growing up, her teaching and choreographic style reflects her keen understanding of musicality.
She has honed her craft by attending classes and workshops throughout Canada and the US, and has taken classes from esteemed dancers such as Sarah Reich, Bril Barrett, Evan Ruggiero, and Jim Hibbard.
Monica Muiro
Monica Muiro
Nenette Mayor
Nenette Mayor
Raina DeGroot
Raina DeGroot
Roley Leyson
Roley Leyson
Sam Hutchings
Sam Hutchings
Samantha Navarro
Samantha Navarro
Sharlyne Chua
Sharlyne Chua
Shyanne Carriere
Shyanne Carriere
Shyanne Carriere has been dancing for 23 years. She is trained in ballet, lyrical, tap, jazz, hiphop, heels, bollywood, Bharatanatyam (classical Indian dance), salsa, bachata and Cha-cha.
Shyanne has won multiple awards in many styles nation wide including WLDC Pro-Am bachata champion 2015, Ultimate Threat at Triple Threat Dance Convention 2017, and holds many Cecchetti ballet exam certificates labelled as Highly Commended. She has also been featured as Winnipeg’s Miss. Multicultural for her vast knowledge in many cultural dance forms through Folklorama, as well as Miss. Dance Icon in 2016 for Miss. Asia Global Manitoba Pageants.
Shyanne is a proud teacher and Director of International Dance Styles at Drop-In Dance Winnipeg.
Being a dance educator for 7 years, Shyanne uses her knowledge in Kinesiology to teach students how to dance safely by preventing injury and how to come back to dance safely post injury.
Sontje Skabo
Sontje Skabo
Sontje Bohn has been dancing for 16 years, including training in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Canada in various styles. After starting with Breakdance and Hip Hop she quickly also discovered her passion for Jazz, Modern, Lyrical, Contemporary and Ballet. Sontje is currently training in the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers and got to dance with the My Move Dance Crew, Dance Expressions Jr., Senior Company Art and Dance, Nafro Dance Productions, WindFlowerDanceCo. and more in the past. She started collecting teaching experiences 7 years ago and is thankful to be able to teach Youth and Adult classes at Drop in Dance. She is happy to be the studio manager.
Sophie Kil
Sophie Kil
Verena Schultz
Verena Schultz
From Verena's first plié at age six, she has been captivated by ballet. Which led her to compete internationally and dance professionally for five years. Since 2016, while pursuing her bachelor's degree in psychology, Verena has shared her passion for ballet by teaching adults. Today, she is able to blend her expertise as a counsellor and ballet teacher, using both fields to enrich her guidance and instruction.
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