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  • Home
  • About
    • Our Company
      • Vision, Mission & Mandate
      • Profile
      • Select Accomplishments
      • Quotes
      • Bylaws & Board Nominations
      • Archives
    • Our People
      • Dancers
      • Artistic Team
      • Board 2024-25
      • Staff
      • Esteemed Members
      • Shumka 60 — Awards Recipients
      • Alumni Committee
    • Shumka and Studia Shumka Auditions
    • Harassment Policy
    • Listening & Learning
    • Studio Schedule
    • Shumka Dance Centre Office Space for Rent
  • Programs
    • Shumka for Everyone
    • Canada’s Ukrainian Nutcracker presented by Shumka
    • Student Matinees
    • Shumka In Studio Field Trips
    • Request a Shumka Performance
    • Syllabus
      • About
      • Instructor Workshops 2024
      • Member Content
    • Shumka’s UKRAINKA
    • National Ballet of Ukraine US Tour with Shumka October 2024
    • Common Threads Mural Project
    • Shumka’s Promised Land
    • Shumka Emerge
    • Shumka On Tour
    • Mosquito’s Wedding
    • Ancestors & Elders
    • Dancing On Eggshells
    • The Whirlwind Online
  • Studia Shumka
  • School of Dance
    • Shumka Summer Dance Camps 2025
    • About the SSD
    • Program
    • Schedule & Registration 2024-25
    • Instructors
    • Costumes for Sale
    • Costumes for Rent
    • Downloads for Families
  • Shumka Dance Festival
    • About Shumka Dance Festival
  • Support
    • Sign Up for E-Newsletter
    • Help Newcomers Dance in Canada
    • Shumka GEMs
    • 60 Years … 60 Faces
    • Donate
    • Supporters
      • Sponsors
      • Government Support
      • Donors
    • Shumka Annual Reports

Staff

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She/Her Darka Tarnawsky is founding president of Bottom Line Productions, an Alberta-based arts marketing firm, and has been involved in the industry as a performer, volunteer, supporter and professional manager…

Darka Tarnawsky

Executive Director

June’s background in the Arts began at the University of Alberta, where she earned a B.A. in Psychology and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance. She became affiliated with…

June Eeles

Programs and Outreach Administrator

Peter has been with Shumka for more than two decades, embarking on his Ukrainian dance journey at the age of eight when he enrolled at the Shumka School of Dance.…

Peter Eeles

Principal, Shumka School of Dance

He/Him Joshua Semchuk has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta in theatre and film production, communications, operations, and administration, and a Masters of Organizational Leadership from…

Joshua Semchuk

Production Director

Trinity set her sights on being a Shumka dancer when she was very young and realized her dream in 2001. Over the years she has seen the company change and…

Trinity Chopyk

Wardrobe Director

Erin Mihalcheon

Wardrobe Director, Shumka School of Dance

Canada's Ukrainian Shumka Dancers

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