ABOUT US
Kristi Reck and Carolyn Brown, the directors of Strive Dance Challenge, are life-long friends who both have a passion for dance and performing. They have both had many experiences at countless dance competitions throughout North America both as dance teachers, dance parents and competitors.
Kristi is an award winning choreographer with over 25 years of teaching experience in dance as well as with the Toronto District School Board as an Educational Assistant. Kristi has a genuine love for dance and children and takes pride in the many accomplishments her own students have achieved over her teaching career, both professionally and academically.
Carolyn taught dance recreationally for over 20 years and has worked in various Managerial and Finance roles in the Audit, Property Management, Mining and Beverage sector. Carolyn continued to dance, teach and compete into her adult years as a way to keep involved in the dance industry.
Kristi and Carolyn talked for many years about starting a dance competition as a way to give back to the dance community and apply the best practices they have noted throughout their experiences at competitions over the years. In 2003, they started scoping out theatres and held their first two venues at York University and Birchmount Collegiate in 2004.
Since then, Strive Dance Challenge has kept evolving to meet its clients’ needs year after year. We boast over a 90% return rate of studios because we listen to the feedback and apply what is required to ensure our competition continues to run in a positive atmosphere, efficiently and fair. Our competition has been developed with our competitors, parents and studio directors in mind. This will continue to be the backbone of why we do what we do at each and every venue we run.
Strive Dance Challenge will always remain small. We run fewer venues than most competitions so that we can dedicate the time needed to ensure each venue is personalized to our participants and that nothing is left undone.
Thank you for visiting our website. Please feel free to browse our website or contact us with any questions you have.
Kristi & Carolyn
Co-directors
STRIVE DANCE CHALLENGE…..the competition that puts you first!