Shared Steps: Families in Motion
Shared Steps: Families in Motion
Finding activities that are engaging and build connections between kids, parents, grandparents, or siblings can be a challenge!
Shared Steps is a 10-week, self-paced, online family movement program created to help families connect through doing and watching dance together at home, on their own time. Each week you’ll find simple, thoughtful prompts that invite movement, creativity, conversation, and shared attention all without pressure, performance, or the need for prior experience.
This isn’t an online dance technique class.
It’s a program that uses the artform of dance to help relatives be together in a new way.
Beat winter bordum and get moving!
Each week, families can log into their course to find a collection of easy-to-follow written and video activities including games, challenges, playlists, and activity sheets that prompt you to:
Watch and talk about movement
Try simple movement ideas together
Create dances, props, music, or ‘sets’ in your house and neighbourhood
Notice and talk about what you see and feel
Everything is designed to be flexible and adaptable across ages — whether you’re participating with a toddler, a teenager, an aging parent, or chosen family.
Activities take 10–30 minutes, can be done on your schedule, and revisited throughout the program!
What Shared Steps Includes
Shared Steps is for families in all shapes and sizes:
Parents and children
Adults and their aging parents
Siblings, grandparents, and chosen family
Anyone looking for screen-light, meaningful shared activities
You don’t need to love dance. You don’t need to know anything about it.
You just need a willingness to be curious — together.
Who it’s For
Once you purchase the program or register for our Family Audience in Residence, you’ll get access to an online course site. Access will be given to one family member through the email address that you register with. Starting on January 28, 2026 you can visit the course site every week to find your new activities, ask questions or share your successes if you want, and access additional resources!
How it Works
Pricing and Payment
Shared Steps: Families in Motion
10-week online program
Launches January 28
$30 per family
(plus tax calculated at checkout)
Shared Steps is offered at this introductory rate for Winter 2026 as part of Corner Brook Dance Hub’s participation in Balancing Act: Level Up!
Families registered in Family Audience in Residence receive free access to Shared Steps.
Dance for All
We are committed to accessible dance education. If this cost is a barrier, please email us for PWYC options.
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This is not an online dance class.
There are:
No techniques to master
No choreography to memorize
No expectations to perform
Instead, Shared Steps see dance as a shared practice — something you discover together, step by step.
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While it draws on a number of different dance forms, instead of teaching specific techniques (like jazz, ballet, folk dance, or contemporary), the program focuses on more foundational dance concepts — through ideas like movement, rhythm, space, effort, and relationship.
We know that dance is culturally specific and our experience and understanding of dance depends on our own cultural background as well as our personal preferences.
This program was created by people who have grown up in Canadian dance studio culture and who have trained and work primarily in contemporary dance forms. So, that lens informs many of the activities, but the program is also designed to be open and adaptable to many different types of movement. This means families can bring their own ways of moving, cultural references, and preferences into the experience.
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Shared Steps is for families in all shapes and sizes:
Parents and children
Adults and their aging parents
Siblings, grandparents, and chosen family
Anyone looking for screen-light, meaningful shared activities
You don’t need to love dance. You don’t need to know anything about it.
You just need a willingness to be curious — together. -
Shared Steps is created for personal use within your family.
All prompts, videos, and resources are original materials developed by Corner Brook Dance Hub and participating artists. Families are welcome to:
Use the materials together with the people they consider part of their family
Revisit prompts as often as they like during the program
Adapt activities to suit their family’s needs and interests
But, to support the artists involved and the sustainability of the program, we ask that materials are not shared, copied, reposted, or redistributed outside your family, including on social media and websites.
If you’re an educator, organization, or community group interested in using Shared Steps materials with a larger group, please get in touch — we’re happy to talk about licensing or custom options.
Thank you for helping us care for the work and the people who make it.
Still have questions?
Meet Your Program Creators
Candice Pike is a dance artist, educator, and administrator based in Corner Brook, NL. She uses a gentle approach to create, interpret, and share dance through both a somatic and intellectual lens. With an eclectic background of movement, artistic, and administrative experience she continues to consider ways of developing and sharing dance practices in rural areas.
Candice has an MA degree in Dance from York University, is an ISMETA Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, and has a post-secondary certificate in dance education. As an arts educator, she is committed to empowering people to understand their own incredible potential for movement and creativity. She has facilitated classes and workshops using her unique approach to movement, improvisation, and creativity education for private studios and community organizations over 20 years and has also developed and taught integrated arts curricula in public schools and post-secondary institutions.
Candice Pike
Family Audience in Residence is supported in part by Balancing Act Canada as part of the Level UP! initiative. Balancing Act supports artist parents and caregivers in Canada, by advocating for greater equality, accessibility, and inclusion within the arts workforce.
