Our Teachers

Our Founder

Lacey Blowers - Dancer, Teacher, Mother

It has been a lifelong dream of Lacey's to create an inclusive collaborative dance community, in which she could share her skills and love of dance not only with her own children, but with her community at large.

Lacey has over 30 years of dance experience in a wide variety of styles including Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Ukrainian Dance, Latin and Ballroom Dance and competitive Irish Dance. She holds a Blas Fine Arts Accreditation in Irish Dance and Culture from the University of Limerick, Ireland and is a registered member of the Cumann Rince Náisiúnta (CRN), based in Dublin, Ireland.

Lacey has a professional background in teaching with a Bachelor of Education from the University of Manitoba, a professional teaching certificate held in both the provinces of Alberta and Manitoba, and over 10 years teaching experience within the public education system as both a classroom and resource teacher.

Lacey’s drive for creative exploration and constant pursuit of synthesizing new information for the purposes of meaningful collaboration comes from her professional training and experiences as an Intelligence Analyst with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Lacey and her husband Michael are raising their five beautiful children on their family grain farm, located just outside the town of Balmoral, Manitoba.

The foundation of Prairie North Dance is the harmonization of Lacey’s three deepest passions in life: dance, teaching, and most of all, family.

Lacey at home with her husband Michael and their five beautiful children.

Our Teaching Assistant

Interlake's own Madison Hildebrand

Madison first fell in love with dance at a young age. Since her first dance class at age 5, Madison has amassed over 13 years of dance training and experience in tap, ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary and hip hop.

Madison has 6 years experience as both a Teaching Assistant and Dance teacher in tap, ballet, and jazz with the Jansen School of Dance.

Madison has competed at dance festivals around the Interlake, as well as larger competitions like Dance Canada, Dance Manitoba, and The View. In both 2016 and 2017, Madison won the Interlake Award and had the opportunity to perform at the Rockwood Festival of the Arts Showcase.

Madison is currently studying at the University of Winnipeg, obtaining a degree in Anthropology, which she hopes to use to pursue a career in Archaeology.

With support and mentorship from Lacey, combined with her extensive dance background, Madison is so excited to step into the world of Irish Dancing.

Our Assistant Choreographer

Adult Competitive Dancer and Choreographer Karin Love

Prairie North Dance is incredibly lucky to have Karin Love as both a collaborator and choreographer for both our Adult dance program and our CRN competition division.

Karin began Irish Dancing at the age of 12 and quickly fell in love with it. Over the last two decades, she has competed throughout North America and has performed extensively in local festivals and events such as Folklorama.

She also danced professionally with “Ireland…Where the Song and Dance Began” an Irish stage production created by Will Millar of the Irish Rovers.

Karin “retired” from competitive Irish Dance at age 19 to pursue her education and other life endeavors. She now has two beautiful and energetic children with her husband Steve. She enjoys spending time outdoors and doing triathlons.

Karin is thrilled to be able to rekindle her love of Irish Dance and share this passion with others through the Prairie North Dance Community!