Dance

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Our Ballet/Modern adjudicator for 2026 is Geraldine Potter!

Geraldine Potter began her dance journey at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Professional Division, graduating in 1991. Her performing career took her across the globe – from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet to Geneva Ballet Theatre, Hanover Ballet, and several companies throughout France, including Dance á Lille, Les Ballet Classique, and Crasto. During these years, she danced in works by Nacho Duato, Maurice Béjart, Renée Mencini, and Marlies Delante – choreographers whose vision would deeply influence her own creative path.

When she stepped off stage, choreography called. She created her first piece for two students at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, entering it in the company’s Fast Forward competition, where it won the Patti Stone Award for Best Choreography. That same work, Liberte, was later performed at Ballet in the Park in Winnipeg and in Japan. This early success led her to found Fresh Feet Productions in Vancouver, where she served as Artistic Director, creating workshops at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre that brought together professional dancers from Ballet BC, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and companies across Canada. Moving to France, she continued developing her choreographic voice, mounting pieces and full productions for various companies throughout the region.

Teaching became equally central to her artistic life. She completed both the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School’s Professional Division Teacher’s Certificate and France’s rigorous National State Teaching Certificate. Over the years, she taught students across Europe and Canada, adjudicated festivals, including the BC Festival of the Performing Arts, led masterclasses internationally, and taught summer intensives at professional schools, including the Edmonton School of Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, and Les Ballets du Nord. In 2006, she co-founded The Nanaimo Ballet School, serving as Co-Director until 2010, and remained a sought-after private coach until she retired from dance to pursue graduate studies in psychology.

Today, Geraldine is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors and runs her own practice, Konect Counselling Services. Her client work often brings her full circle – working with dancers navigating performance anxiety, disordered eating, and perfectionism, struggles she understands from both sides of the mirror.

She’s delighted to return to the dance stage as adjudicator, bringing not just her eye for artistry but decades of pedagogical insight to support young dancers in their technical and creative development.

Our Stage Dance adjudicator for 2026 is Liz Tookey!

From a very young age, Liz knew she needed dance to be a part of her life.

Her career has allowed her to experience a wide scope of what the industry has to offer.

She started performing with Princess Cruises, travelled to Tokyo, Japan, where she was part of the featured pas de deux couple in “Encore!” at Tokyo Disney Sea, and also to Egypt and Israel performing in a show tour for the Canadian military.

Liz was able to exercise all of her skills in dancing, acting and singing when the love of the stage drew her to the world of musical theatre. Throughout her career, she got to play a wide variety of characters. In Theatre Calgary’s production of “Anne of Green Gables”, The Arts Club production of “Spamalot”, and a dream come true performance in the North American Premiere / Toronto Mirvish production of “Dirty Dancing”, she performed as ensemble and 1st “Baby” understudy.

Liz can be seen on various episodes of the CW Network’s “Hellcats” as a featured dancer and as Ashley Tisdale’s dance double, as Maggie Lawson’s dance double in the musical episode of “Psych”, a featured dancer in ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”, Nickelodeon’s “Jinxed”, “The Layover”, NBC’s “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” and Paramount’s “Rise Of The Pink Ladies”.

Transitioning to the world of choreography, Liz began by assisting choreographers on “So You Think You Can Dance Canada”. She was also part of the creative team for ‘Reefer Madness’. Liz’s choreography can be seen on Super Channel’s “When Calls the Heart” and ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”. She was the personal dance coach for award-winning actor Domhnall Gleeson for the feature film “Crash Pad”, and most recently directed the opening and closing numbers for Air Canada Vacations’ national corporate tour.

Liz loves to share her passion for what she does with pre-professional and professional dancers across North America via master classes, adjudicating and choreography.