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 Winnie Yu (Dancepooh) was the leader of the winning team of the Millennium Dancing Competition organized by the Fairchild Radio and Fairchild Television in 1999. Her team was the champion in the Line Dancing Sub-group of that event.
Winnie has more than 10 years of professional line dancing teaching experience; she has accumulated lots of insight and experience, ready to be shared with all dancers. Winnie organizes her dancing lessons in a systematic and unique fashion, and she adjusts teaching pace and methods suitable to individual student’s learning needs. Hence, students of different ages and levels can learn line dancing in a comfortable environment, with full attention from our instructors. Students are first introduced to basic dancing steps of different kinds of dance; these serve as an important foundation for developing line dancing skills and movements. There are more than 1,500 students under the guidance of our team of instructors, and the number is increasing. Experienced and talented individuals had been selected from our students to be further trained as instructors, promoting line dancing in different communities.
Winnie has been a Tai Chi instructors for more that 11 years in the Province of Ontario. She learned from the renowned Tai Chi Master Kwan, Kwok Keung. Winnie has been the first to integrate Tai Chi steps into the application of line dance movements.
Winnie has been diligently improving her expertise in line dancing; she consistently attends advanced dancing workshops from famous dancers around and out of town, searching for leading edge dancing skills and trends. Her students can take the added advantage of her up-to-date knowledge of the most recent and hit dances from different line dancing interest groups.
Winnie began her line dancing choreography career in 2004. YMCA was her first masterpiece which led to an initial success and received tremendous support and recognition from various line dancing interest groups. Winnie’s other piece, “Summer Wine” won the third prize at the Windy City Line Dance Mania in Chicago in 2004. Also, she was the first Award-winning Chinese Line Dance Choreographer of Ontario.
Winnie has choreographed numerous pieces: 2 Butterflies, Banca Cha Cha, Little Waltz, Mice Love Big Rice, Timeless, CuCu, Disco Remix and Kung Fu Fighting ‘07. She choreographed some of the above pieces for raising funds for charity organizations. After that, her piece became popular amongst her students and line dancing interest groups worldwide, as she sought after dances in parties and workshops.
Her most recent pieces include Sealed With A Kiss and Unbreak My Heart; they have been put in the list of popularity for some time. You are welcome to download them from
“ Winnie’s Dance” on this website.
Winnie cares for the community. She has voluntarily delivered free dancing lessons and participated in many event performances for Yee Hong Community Wellness Foundation, Carefirst Seniors & Community Services Association, S.E.A.S. Centre, Fu Hui (Canada) Foundation for poor kid’s education in China, and Centre for Information and Community Services for the last 10 years. In April 2001, the Year of International Volunteers, Winnie was awarded the Silver Medal by the Province of Ontario in recognition of her continuous contributions of volunteer services to our communities. In addition, Winnie was also awarded a Certificate of Recognition in the year 2005 from the former Minister of Immigration and Human Resources of the Province of Ontario.
Winnie supports different kinds of charity events and activities in our communities, she has been named the “Charity Line Dance Queen” by our dancing communities.
In 2001-2003, Winnie and her students had voluntarily participated in the production of a TV commercial for Mon Sheong Long Term Care Centre, promoting the services delivered by Mon Sheong to the public. Winnie also organizes charity parties raising money for this organization on a regular basis.
In December 2004, Winnie collected a total of CAD10,000 from distributing her own line dancing instructional DVDs collection. All proceeds were donated to the Red Cross Tsunami Relief Fund to help with the South East Asia disaster.
In 2005, Winnie has assisgned some of her trained instructors to teach line dancing in Carefirst’s classes. Classes have been increased from 4 to 19, from elementary to advanced levels. Winnie has been consistently promoting line dancing activity and raising charitable funds for Carefirst Foundation.
In 2006, Winnie raised CAD30,000 in charitable funds for C.I.C.S. Immigrant Resources Centre by distributing her line dancing instructional DVD sets (Chapter 5 to 12). Every year she organizes charity birthday parties; part of the proceeds will be donated to C.I.C.S. Foundation. In addition, she organizes “Saturday Night Line Dance Fun” line dance parties on a regular basis, and all funds raised to establish the Immigrant Resources Centre. Students receive excellent opportunities to practice with line dances and at the same time they raise money. The whole set of educational DVDs (1-12) have been used by local mainstream libraries as reference resources for community users’ borrowing. Thus Winnie has been appointed as an Honorable Member by the Board of Directors of the C.I.C.S.
In June 10, 2007, Winnie led her team of instructors to break a record in a line dancing event in Canada - The Marathon of Line Dancing. The records broken were the number of participants that have attended (800), the total hours of dancing (8), and the funds raised (CAD16,000) in this line dance marathon. The beneficiary organization was Mon Sheong Foundation.
In November 24, 2007, Winnie personally organized a charitable line dancing workshop. More than 300 students and line dance enthusiasts participated. CAD10,000 has been donated to Fu Hui (Canada) Foundation in the name of Mr. & Mrs. Kwan Kwok Keung for the support of educational funds for poor children in China.
In 2007, Winnie has begun uploading video clips featuring activities in class, party, and performance events to YouTube. Also included are instructional video clips for easy reference and review. Winnie will continue to upload new line dancing video clips for students after class practice and for reference.
Winnie would like to express her appreciation to her team members for their continuous support and assistance, making her line dancing group a stronger and popular team serving our communities’ needs. She also wants to thank for your continuous support and valuable comments.
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