Dean Vollick began dancing at 18 with Canadiana, a folk dance company in St. Catharines, Ontario. He began his ballet training at Brock University and then continued at The George Brown College/Lois Smith School of Dance and Canada’s National Ballet School, while attending summer sessions at The Banff Centre for the Arts.

His professional performance career has spanned nearly four decades and has included work with Ontario Ballet Theatre, Ballet Omaha, Ballet Florida, Toronto Dance Theatre, Omega Dance Theatre, and Dance Theatre David Earle, through which he toured Canada, the United States, and Europe.

As a teacher, Vollick completed his teacher certification in The Teacher Training Program for Professional Dancers at Canada’s National Ballet of School. He was on faculty at Boston Ballet School for four years and served as artistic principal of the School's Citydance Program. He has held teaching positions at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre, Tufts University, Performing Arts School of Worcester (now Hannover Conservatory), and American Academy of Ballet. He has guest taught for The School of Dance at University of Utah, Jessica Lang Dance, and Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theatre.

Currently, Vollick is on faculty as Associate Professor of Dance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and is a teaching artist at The Dance Complex in Cambridge. He is also a certified Gyrotonic© Instructor, and this coupled with continuing training in the work of Irene Dowd, has expanded his teaching style, leading to a deeper understanding of the dancer's instrument, the moving body.