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Jenny Xie says dancing was always the "most stunning, shining" part of her life growing up, allowing her to communicate in ways other than words.
When the now-50-year-old dance instructor was an infant in China, she fell sick.
"I got the bad medicine when I was about eight months," she said.
After that illness, she lost some of her hearing. Sounds and language became harder to distinguish.
After coming to Canada in 2001, she found an additional challenge trying to communicate clearly in English.
"I'm not able to do that, but I can dance and then people can feel what I want to say," she said.
"Dancing is another body language [and I] can express myself very accurately."
The Chinese dancing Xie teaches focuses on circular movements, representing the encompassing of the heav
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