ABOUT XCOMPANY PHYSICAL ARTS & FITNESS
In the 80s, former Philippine National Dance Company professional dancer, Teresita Miller founded the South Seas Polynesian Dance Company in Winnipeg,  She instructed and toured various forms of Polynesian dance, including Hula, Tahitian and Maori throughout central Canada and some states.  Ed Miller Sr., a professional former Filipino film actor, founded Showmasters, producing Canadian tours of Filipino film and pop music artists throughout 70s-80s.  Their son, Eddie, grew up in the studio and backstage, working for the family companies and in various secular performing arts/teaching/entertainment projects into the mid 90s.

In 1991, Eddie founded and directed performance dance teams while attending bible college. In 1995, he started the Honour Guard Performing Arts Team, a men’s & boy’s mentoring-based worship dance company.  Building upon martial-arts-influenced dance, parade style flagging, BootX &  XBX (where name XCO was drawn from), HGPA presented a more masculine-martial style of movement for concerts and parades for crowds up to 50,000 (March for Jesus, MB Stampede, Red River Ex).  After hosting men’s/co-ed dance workshops around MB, HGPA soon expanded into ON, QB and once even performed on the Mexican Presidential Palace grounds.

Soon, after building a new team of staff and leaders, programs were started to be offered at secular schools, studios, professional development events, community centres and the whole venture was legally changed to XCOMPANY.  [see a shortlist of Events & Organizations near bottom of this page]

XCOMPANY promotes personal growth, community-building  and values through the arts, physical education, martial arts, fitness and leadership programs.   Strong partnerships with community-based organizations, schools and families throughout central Canada has helped XCO serve over 10,000 participants in over 100 communities through workshops, classes, programs and performances.  XCOMPANY maintains a  non-religious*, family values based orientation. 

[VIDEO: CBC News Story on XCOMPANY Here]

*We do not preach or force religion upon anyone, but instead choose to serve anyone, regardless of any creed, culture, ability or gender.  Likewise, we train our ‘religious’ or church-based students to do the same, challenging them to use their gifts to help others in the real world.

 

ABOUT XPT TEAMS INC
In 2002, the non-profit XCO Performance Team Inc. was created as an artistic forum for advancing students and teachers.  Members were encouraged to share their gifts, skills and talents on various performance and outreach tours.  Beginning in 2006, The original team evolved into several distinct performance outreach teams: ONE Performance Collective, Ground Zero, Team Momentum Performance (Steinbach), Xclusive (Stonewall) and PXT (Portage). XPT has done many tours from Winnipeg to Vancouver to Northern Manitoba.

[DOCUMENT: XPT Promo Kit Here]

 

ABOUT MANITOBA PHYSICAL ARTS & FITNESS ALLIANCE
When it comes to you or your child’s health, it can be a gamble of ‘buyer beware.’

Currently, there is a systemic, industry-wide lack of proper kinesiology and applied health training for instructors/coaches of dance, fitness, martial arts & physical performing arts.  In other professional industries, such a lack of training would be considered negligent, unsafe, unprofessional and legally liable.  Thus students of untrained instructors often receive health misinformation, improper physical conditioning, bad training habits and lifelong chronic injuries or worse.

Any instructor must obviously proper knowledge and qualifications of the specific curricula/techniques they teach.  However, any curricula is simply incomplete without formal training in human anatomy, physiology, bioenergetics, safety, etc..  Thus, we encourage all consumers to always ask all their instructors formal health training or fitness certifications, beyond the curricula.  Consumers are soon often surprised to find out that in even some of the trendy brand name programs out there, instructors have no training…not even basic CPR.

In 2010, as a response to the need to adequately train and certify instructors in addition to their curricula expertise, MB Physical Arts and Fitness Alliance (MPF) was developed.  MPF is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to networking and helping developing instructors, teachers and various professionals in the physical arts and fitness sector.

XCOMPANY is proud to partner with MPF & canfitpro in its Instructor Training & Certification Program.
[WEBSITE: MPF Website Here]
[WEBSITE: canfitpro Here]

XCOMPANY EVENTS & ORGANIZATIONS SERVED
EDUCATION
Arthur Day School
Balmoral School
Briercrest College
Cypress River School
Frontier School Division
George Johnson School
Grant Park High School
Gimli High School
Grosse Isle School
La Verendrye School, Portage
Lac du Bonnet High School
Louis Riel School Division
Miles Mac Collegiate
MB Phys. Ed Teacher’s Assocation-MPETA
Neepawa Collegiate
Pinawa Collegiate
Robert H. Smith
St. Malo/St. Pierre Schools
St. Paul’s Collegiate, Elie
Selkirk Recreation
Sigjuborg Stefansson School
Steinbach Christian High School
Stonewall Collegiate
Stony Mountain School
University of Winnipeg & Wesmen
Walter White School
Winnipeg Beach School
Winnipeg School Division

EVENTS
2010 Manitoba Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies [Choreographic Director]
Active Women, Active Girls
CAHPERD National Conference – Presenter
Canada Day-Selkirk & Thompson
CDFC National Conference
Canadian Armed Forces Military Tattoo
Dancing Under the Canopy, The Forks
Girl’s Forums on Fitness
FAME Fitness Model & Bodybuilding Competition – Host Organization
Fringe Festival – Kids Fringe
International Power Dance Showcase – Host Organization
Kelowna Life and Arts Festival
MB In Motion
MB Arts Network Contact
MCIC Forum of Landmines
Northern Links Manitoba
Regina Fringe Festival
SAG Events for School Teachers
Selkirk Children’s Festival
Soul’d 2011
SummerActive Manitoba
Summer in the City, Steinbach
Surrey Children’s Festival [BC]
Nutrition Professionals Forum
YouthQuake, SK
Winnipeg Fringe Festival & Kids Fringe
Winnipeg In Motion
Zest for Life Conference

ORGANIZATIONS
4H Clubs
Arborg-Bifrost Recreation
Anishinaabe Mino-Ayaawin
Athletes in Action Brokenhead River Recreation
Carberry Figure Skating
City of Portage la Prairie
City of Winnipeg – Community Services/Rec Centres
Gimli Recreation Authority
Kelsey Recreation
Celebration Company
Cook’s Creek Dance Academy
Elizabeth Fry Society
Fairford First Nation
Holland Figure Skating Club
Interlake Regional Health Authority
The Hope Centre
Kil-Cona Alliance Church
Kinsmen Reh-Fit Centre
Lorne Recreation District
Lakeshore Women’s Resource Ctr.
MB Arts Network
MB Culture, Heritage & Tourism-Recreation
MB Moose Hockey Club
NorthEastman Regional Health Authority
Portage District Arts Centre
Pineview-Edgewater Recreation
Pukatawagan First Nation
Rat River Recreation
Recreation Connections Manitoba
Red River Recreation Commission
Riverton Recreation
Rock Lake United Church Camp
St. Boniface General Hospital
Salvation Army—Camp Woodlands
St Laurent Recreation Commission
Snow Lake Recreation
Swan Valley Recreation
SummerActive Mobile
Steinbach Arts Council
Synchro Swim Manitoba
Teens Against Drunk Driving
Viscount Arts Council
Windsor Park Collegiate
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Winnipeg In Motion
White Plains Recreation District
Winnipeg Beach Recreation
Winnipeg River Recreation District
Youth for Christ

 

Hi!  If you were bored enough to scroll this far down, here’s some bonus insider trivia:
Q:Just what does the ‘X‘ in XCOMPANY stand for?
A:Nope, its not for ‘Xtreme!’  Here’s a holiday clue: ‘Merry X-MAS!’