A new company's been hired for a two-year contract with Portage and District Arts Centre's dance program in Portage la Prairie.

"We have just hired Sunrise Performing Arts Centre of Excellence Winnipeg Inc., known as The SPACE," says Lee Beaton, PDAC marketing and events coordinator. "They're going to be facilitating our fall dance program along with our Ukrainian Dance instructor and possibly some other local dance instructors."

Beaton says the mission statements for both PDAC and The SPACE are closely aligned. She adds a new feature will see each student receive a report card highlighting their successes throughout the program.

Beaton says The SPACE instructor Wendy Bobby's been teaching dance to children in rural Manitoba for 25 years now, and she's quite passionate about dance and shares it with her students and instructors.