Welcome to Dancers Guide by Dancers

Your journey to thriving as a dancer starts here. Get to know our community and our commitment to supporting young dancers like you. We're creating a safe space, sharing experiences, and building resilience, together.

A Community Built by Dancers, For Dancers

We understand the long days, early mornings, mental pressure, and physical demands, because we’re living it too. This platform is shaped by dancers who know what it’s like to balance passion with responsibility, ambition with rest.

Our aim is to create a supportive, welcoming community where dancers feel seen, understood, and encouraged, not compared or judged.

Visit our forums to connect, ask questions, and share experiences with other dancers.

More Than Just Dance: Addressing Real Issues

Here, you’ll find more than just polished highlights. We share real experiences from training and performance, along with practical tips for recovery, mindset, and preparation. Everything we post is meant to be useful, relatable, and easy to apply.

The goal is to offer guidance that actually fits into a dancer’s life, not advice that sounds good but isn’t realistic.

Read our blog for stories, tips, and resources from dancers at every stage.

Inspiring Stories, Practical Tips

Dance doesn’t exist in a vacuum. We talk about the things that matter outside the studio too, burnout, balance, school, motivation, and what it really means to grow as both a dancer and a person.

By opening up these conversations, we hope to make the dance world feel more honest, supportive, and sustainable.

Follow us on instagram for ongoing conversations, community features, and updates.

Meet Our Team

Queeny Li 

Founder

Based in Vancouver, Canada, Queeny is a pre-professional dancer and the founding force behind Dancers Guide by Dancers. Her ten-year journey in ballet, complemented by her work in contemporary dance, sparked a desire to create a space where young artists could find both resources and mentorship. For Queeny, dance is defined by the grace and emotional depth found in ballets like Giselle, qualities she aims to mirror in the supportive community she is building. She is committed to ensuring that every young dancer has a place to turn for guidance and inspiration.

Victoria Ni

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Victoria is a ballet and contemporary dancer with 11 years of training, currently studying at Yan Ballet Academy in Singapore. As the Digital Outreach Assistant, she helps manage social media, reshares content, and supports online engagement. She enjoys connecting with the dance community and sharing helpful experiences and resources from her own training. While she loves performing, her favourite role remains the Esmeralda variation, the piece that first introduced her to solo performance.

Sophie Matthew

Web Coordinator

As a pre-professional student Sophie is fully immersed in the world of intense training. This experience fuels her work as the Web Manager for Dancers Guide by Dancers, where she builds and maintains a digital home for the global dance community. Sophie understands the unique journey of a young dancer and is passionate about providing a space where peers can support one another. Outside of her technical work, she finds constant inspiration in the music and artistry of her two favorite ballets, Coppélia and Giselle.

"We believe in a collaborative community shaped by dancers’ voices where growth, resilience, and empowerment can be fostered."

~Dancers Guide by Dancers team