Melissa Mahady Wilton

ConCorpsDance

Melissa Mahady Wilton is the founder and Director of ConCorpsDance Inclusive Dance Programs, a Kingston-based organization devoted to creating dance programming accessible to all people, regardless of their ages and/or abilities.

Ms. Mahady Wilton is a dance educator who holds a Master's degree and doctoral training in Clinical Psychology, and has worked with children, adults, and families with special needs for over ten years.

Ms. Mahady Wilton has over twenty years' formal dance training across a broad range of disciplines, including classical ballet, jazz, tap, international ballroom dance, folk, and flamenco. She currently provides inclusive, integrated movement programming, including wheelchair dance, to a number of organizations in Kingston; including: the Kingston School of Dance, H'art School of Smiles, Extend-A-Family, the Kingston Family YMCA, Holy Cross Secondary School and Winston Churchill Public School.

Ms. Mahady Wilton is also the Vice Chairperson of the Board and Fundraising Coordinator for Canada DanceSport, Inc. She possesses current Red Cross Standard First Aid and CPR certification.

Ms. Mahady Wilton is passionate about the joy, creativity, and physical awareness that dance can provide to people of all abilities. She hopes to challenge common misconceptions about the limits of who can participate in dance, and hopes to inspire her students to become "dancers without borders."