Devon Stone
Owner and Director
“It’s important to build good habits and accurate basic technique in our youngest Prima Star Dancers (3-6 years) and 7-9 year-old Dancers to set them up to succeed in the more advanced technique and skills they will learn as they progress through our dance curriculum. This is why it’s important to me to hire the very best, well trained, qualified, expert dance educators to teach at my studio.” ~ Ms. Stone
Devon Stone is the Owner and Director of Collingwood School of Dance, and has studied classical ballet for over 25 years. Ms. Stone started CSD in 2007 to fulfill a need in Collingwood and the surrounding area for high quality, expert, certified and award winning dance training. Over the past 11 years CSD has become known as the go to studio for the best dance training in Collingwood. Ms. Stone only hires the very best, well-trained, expert dance educators to teach at CSD. She believes that no matter what a child’s aspirations are as a student at CSD – recreational or competition performance team, they deserve the absolute best dance educators and training. An expert dance educator teaches students how to master dance skills and technique, not just mimic them. Ms. Stone’s ballet exam students often receive high marks in their Cecchetti Ballet Exams, and her competitive students win numerous overall and special awards for their grace and exquisite ballet technique.
Devon Stone is the only Cecchetti Qualified Ballet Teacher in Collingwood that has graduated from a Professional Ballet Teacher Training Program from one of Canada’s Top Professional Ballet Schools – the School of Alberta Ballet.
Ms. Stone has been training in the Cecchetti Ballet Method since she was 6 years old, and has passed every exam with top marks of either Highly Commended or Honours. She has received expert training from world renowned choreographers and Cecchetti Ballet Teachers, including her Teacher Training mentor, Joyce Shietze, Chairman of Cecchetti Canada.
Ms. Stone is the only Cecchetti Qualified Ballet Teacher in Collingwood to train as a professional ballet student from age 13-18 from 3 of Canada’s Top Professional Ballet Schools – The National Ballet of Canada, the Quite Ballet School and The School of Dance.
Miss Stone is certified with the following dance organizations:
- Cecchetti Canada and Cecchetti International-Classical Ballet – Associate Diploma
- Acrobatic Arts Professional Curriculum for Acrobatic Dance
- Applied Anatomy and Physiology Relating to Dance
The history of Miss. Stone’s dance education:
After dancing recreationally for nine years, Miss. Stone was accepted into the Professional Ballet Training Program at the Quinte Ballet School at the age of thirteen. From there she attended Canada’s National Ballet School, and then The School of Dance in Ottawa, where she graduated from their five-year Professional Ballet Program under the Artistic Direction of Joyce Shietze and Marrilee Hodgins and Co-Artistic Direction of Celia Franca. After graduating from high school Ms. Stone attended the School of Alberta Ballet and graduated from their Professional Ballet Teacher Training Program.
Highlights of Miss. Stone’s dance training and performing experience:
As a student, Ms. Stone was always very successful in her Cecchetti Classical Ballet Examinations only ever receiving top marks of Highly Commended and Honours. In 1998 Miss. Stone received the prestigious Celia Franca Scholarship Award at The School of Dance in Ottawa. In 2000 she was given the honour of performing a solo contemporary piece called Psalmo de Vente, choreographed by Owen Montague for the Happy Birthday Celia Franca Gala, presented at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. In the summer of 2001 Miss. Stone was awarded a solo variation, choreographed by Brian Macdonald, while attending the Dance Training Program at the Banff Performing Arts Centre.
