Janice Pomer

Dance education and creation for movers of all ages and abilities.

  • Dance artist Janice Pomer performing at the Tree Museum, ON Canada. She is crouching down on a rock in a forest with a large quiver of bamboo poles balanced on her back.
    Janice Pomer, The Tree Museum, ON, Canada

    Based in Toronto (Tkaronto) ON Canada, Janice Pomer has been teaching, performing and creating in the fields of dance, music and physical theatre since 1976.

    Her books on Dance and Movement Education are published by Human Kinetics USA. Perpetual Motion: Creative Movement Exercises for Dance & Dramatic Arts (2002) and Dance Composition: An Interrelated Arts Approach (2009) have been hailed as ‘inspiring’, ‘invaluable’, ‘dynamic’ and ‘multidimensional’ by dancers and educators from around the world.

    In November 2022 Elementary Dance Education: Nature-Themed Creative Movement and Collaborative Learning was released in e-book and print.

    Two elementary school aged dancers face each other in a mirrored image they created inspired by lightning.

    ‘Whether you’re an experienced dance educator or just beginning to incorporate movement and dance into your classroom, Pomer’s supportive presence as a mentor to teachers radiates through the pages of this book.’ Dr Lisa Sandlos, York University, Provocations Journal for Drama & Dance Educators 2023. For Kindergarten through Grade 6 Available in e-book and paperback.

    The cover shows a blurred image of dance artist Lin Snelling in front of drawings and text fragments created by visual artist Shelagh Keeley.

    ‘Pomer’s book is filled with practical ideas [on] how you can teach and explore dance and choreography as creative processes of aesthetic learning and communication. It is about creativity in movement and dance as a multidimensional process.’ Idrott Reviews, Lis Engel, Institute of Exercise & Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen 2010. Designed for secondary and university level. Available in paperback.

    Two college-level physical education students create a symmetrical shape by joining hands, while in deep lunges positions and tilting backward.

    ‘If you are teaching dance and/or drama, and especially if you are teaching in the school system, you need this book. Author Janice Pomer gives invaluable ideas for the integrated uses of arts in education and the crucial facts that prove the value of the arts in education…’ Dance Teacher Magazine, USA 2002. Designed for elementary & secondary dance & drama programs. Available in paperback.

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