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Who is Pauline Brown?
Pauline's dance career began at the tender age of 3 years. Pauline's stepdance instruction was with Buster Brown and she also studied tap, jazz and baton twirling at the Marjorie Lyon Bishop School of Dance in Ottawa. Pauline continued with her lessons for several years and began her career as an instructor around 12 years old. She first apprenticed with Shelley McGuire in Aylmer, Quebec and then taught alongside Buster Brown for almost 20 years teaching hundreds of children in the Ottawa Valley how to stepdance.
In 2003, Pauline was inducted into the Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall of Fame in recognition of her performances and carrying on the tradition of Ottawa Valley Stepdancing.
Pauline is continuing her career as a stepdance teacher in Ottawa and hopes to teach many more students the art of stepdancing.
Throughout the years, Pauline travelled across Canada performing at exhibitions, conventions, trade shows, county fairs, etc. Pauline captured the title of Quebec Champion in 1980-81 and, in 1984, travelled with Ronnie Prophet and the Family Brown on a Canadian Northern military tour to places such as Goose Bay, Alert, Inuvik, Yellowknife and the Queen Charlotte Islands. Pauline has had the pleasure of performing with numerous entertainers such as Roy Acuff in Nashville, Wayne Rostad, Ambush, Michael Riley and Mac Beattie and the Ottawa Valley Melodiers. Pauline has also entertained with many talented fiddle players like Bobby Lalonde, Ed Pigeon, Bob Ranger, Peter Dawson, Matilda Murdoch, Al Cherney, Rob Dagenais, Louis Schyrer, Brian Hebert, Gerry Smith, Graham Townsend, and Howard Hayes.
Some of Pauline's former students have gone on to perform the art of Stepdancing all over the world and others are passing on their skill to students of their own. They include the Cobden Clickers, the original Duelling Dancers, Danny Walsh, Kathleen and John McDermott, April and Tawnya Verch, the Duelling Dancers II, Jon and Nathan Pilatzke, Pem Jewel's, Double Vision, Just Ask and the Canadian Steppers.
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