The Troupe

Linda Sellers  directs ARISE Ministry. She is a graduate of Ryerson's Dance Teachers program  and a qualified ballet, folk, creative and modern dance instructor.  She has performed, choreographed, and taught liturgical dance for 25 years.  She has studied mime under Marcel Marceau, Todd and Marilyn Farley, and Kevin Wood, and now performs and teaches. Linda has studied with Motus O Dance theatre. She was the assistant artistic director and a performer with From the Top, a mime and musical sign language troupe. She has also studied drama and sigh language and has ministered in Europe, as well as Canada. Linda teaches at York Dance Academy. She attends Unionville Alliance Church where she leads the dance and mime team.

Holly Brickell  has studied ballet, jazz, modern dance and musical theatre. She is a graduate of Unionville High School's Arts York Dance Program and The Performing Dance Program at George Brown College. Holly has participated in Arts and Liturgy workshops at Wycliff College and studied movement and choreography with the Motus O Dance Theatre. She is training to be a certified Royal Academy of Dance ballet teacher . Her talent and skill in dance, choreography, mime and sign language is visible even to the untrained eye. Holly has recently  been accepted onto The National Ballet's dance teachers program. She also ministers in her own church, Grace Church in Newmarket On.

Brenda Weafer first learned to love dance at the age of 4 in Montreal where she studied ballet under Eleanor Moore Ashton at the Montreal Ballet Academy. By the age of 13, Brenda was helping to teach the younger students as well as dancing in the Company of the Montreal Ballet Educator's Society.  As well as teaching ballet, she also studied Drama at Vanier College and choreographed for the Savoy Society at McGill University as well as performing in several Theatre Groups in and around Montreal. Since moving to the Newmarket area in 1991, Brenda has been heavily involved in performing and directing drama and mime in her local church. She presently leads the drama team at Yorkview Community Church in Newmarket and is thrilled to be serving the Lord with Arise Ministry

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