Contact: info@westcoastswingedmonton.com
This group formed for the love of the West Coast Swing dance, and wanting to have a place to dance, practice and socialize.
The West Coast Swing Addicts (or ‘Addicts’) dances have been run as not for profit, pouring all revenues back into the operations of running the dances.
In fall of 2018, we formed a board to steward the organization. The board wrote bylaws and applied to become a not-for-profit society. The incorporation was officially granted in the fall of 2019 – we are now the West Coast Swing Addicts Dance Society (WCSADS).
Download WCSADS Bylaws – July 2019
Anyone can become a member of the society, if you have attended a dance. For the executive, there are restrictions for who can be an executive member.
Board Executive for the 2024 – 2026 Term:
President: Kyle Loranger
Treasurer: Kenneth Valentine
Secretary: Donna Hammerlindl
Director: Brian Kobylko
Director: Laurie Mullen (to April 2025)
Director: Pamela Tribiger
Director: Karen Benrot
Past Boards:
Board Executive for the 2022 – 2024 Term:
President: Kyle Loranger
Treasurer: Kenneth Valentine
Secretary: Donna Hammerlindl
(Corina Pope, to June 2023)
Director: Brian Kobylko
Director: Laurie Mullen
Director: Celeste Harper (from Nov 2023)
Board Executive for the 2020 – 2022 Term:
President: Corina Pope
Treasurer: Gabriela Yates (then Kenneth Valentine in May 2022)
Secretary: Kyle Loranger
Director: Glenn Cryer
Director: Brian Kobylko
Director: Geoff Green
Director: Juliana Virani (to July 25, 2021)
Board Executive for the 2019 – 2020 Term:
President: Corina Pope
Treasurer: Glenn Cryer (Formerly Nicole Obert, to Dec 6, 2019)
Secretary: Kyle Loranger
Director: Brian Kobylko
Director: Juliana Virani
Director: Geoff Green
Corporate years (for society renewal): (Included in the annual return, needs to be the financial report at the last AGM. IE September 2024 would include the financials from the AGM in June 2024). The corporate return is submitted every September.
September 2023 – August, 2024
September 2022 – August, 2023 –
September 2021 – August, 2022 – Submitted and approved
September 2020 – August, 2021 – Submitted and approved
September 2019 – September 2020 – Society Founded as West Coast Swing Addicts Dance Society – Submitted and approved
Fiscal years (for financial reporting):
January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024
April 1, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023
At June 2023 AGM, fiscal end date changed to be Dec 31.
April 1, 2022 – March 31, 2023 (presented at AGM in June 2023)
April 1, 2021 – March 31, 2022
April 1, 2020 – March 31, 2021
September 1, 2019 – March 31, 2020 – Founding year
WCSA History in Edmonton
West Coast Swing dances started to be organized by this community group back in 2010 at the Wellington Community Hall. The founding organizers were Tracy Boldt, Dave Kostiniuk, Gary Gaudreault, and Eva Haug.
Dance lessons were were added and in the beginning were taught by rotating teams of instructors Dan and Dawn Bloxham and Rob and Sherry Tovell. Over the years, we have had many local instructors teach lessons for the group, including: Monika Holub, Melissa Larsen, Sandra Adams and Blake Christofferson, Elise Seehagel, Eric Liew-On, Harold Oberhammer, Andrew Oprychal, Tracy Boldt, Corina Walker, and Kyle Loranger.
In 2011 we started having dances at the more centrally located Bonnie Doon Community Hall with its fantastic wood floor. (Thanks to Monika Holub for the recommendation!) WCSA dances continue to be hosted here to this day.