Work

A W A R D S

2024 Dance Collection Danse Hall of Fame - Sandra Faire Next Generation Award
2023 Tarragon Theatre's Urjo Kareda Residency Award
2021 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize - Protégé
2021 JAYU’s Arts for Human Rights Awards
2018 Critics' Pick Award for Outstanding Dance Performance in Finding Wolastoq Voice

L E A D E R S H I P

Assistant Professor University of Winnipeg (2023 - present)
Guest Curator SummerWorks Festival (2023)
Metcalf Artistic Director Intern Soulpepper Theatre (2021 - 2022)
Artistic Associate Guelph Dance (2023 - present)
Artistic Director Political Movement (2015 - present)
Co-Artistic Director hub14 (2013 - 2018)

O P E R A | T H E A T R E

CHOREOGRAPHER & INTIMACY DIRECTOR

Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White
Canadian Opera Company (2024)

MOVEMENT DIRECTOR

The Birds
Stratford Festival: Conservatory (2023)

MOVEMENT DIRECTOR & INTIMACY CHOREOGRAPHER

Every Little Nookie
Stratford Festival (2022)

MOVEMENT COACH

Bug
Manidoons Collective (2018)

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
(MOVEMENT & INTIMACY)

3 Fingers Back
Tarragon Theatre (2024)

MOVEMENT FACILITATOR & ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

My Sister's Rage
Tarragon Theatre (2022)

CHOREOGRAPHER

Kamloopa
Soulpepper Theatre (2022)

CHOREOGRAPHY CONSULTANT

Niizh
Native Earth Performing Arts (2023)

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & INTIMACY DIRECTOR

Queen Goneril
Soulpepper Theatre (2022)

CHOREOGRAPHER

Finding Wolastoq Voice
Theatre New Brunswick (2019)

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Movement Facilitator: Yolanda Bonnell - The Eighth Fire, The Great Migration [workshop] (2023)
Movement Director: FabCollab – WOMEN IN SONG: STRANGE DARLINGS (2021)
Choreographer: Theatre Passe Muraille – Seven Pieces [workshop] by Jenn Forgie (2021)
Choreographer: Stratford Festival – Penthesilea [workshop] (2021)
Choreographer: Urban Ink – Wolf Cull [workshop] by Cheyenne Scott (2021)
Choreographer: Manidoons Collective – White Girls in Moccasins [workshop] by Yolanda Bennell (2019)
Choreographer: Stratford Lab Ensemble – Indigenous Body of Work (2019)
Choreographer and Co-Director: Thinking Rock Community Arts – The Rivers Speak (2017)
Choreography and Direction: Article 11 with Humber College – iRISING (2016)

I N T I M A C Y

We Three Queens (season 2)

[Web Series] 2024
OutTV

Stupid Fucking Bird

[Live Theatre] 2023
University of Winnipeg

Packing

[Film Teaser] 2023
Snail Mail Media Inc.

Really Happy Someday

[Film] 2023
Spindle Films

The Effect

[Live Theatre] 2023
Coal Mine Theatre

Arctic Ocean

[Live Theatre] 2023
Toronto Metropolitan University

Richard II

[Live Theatre] 2023
Stratford Festival

Sworn Justice: Taken Before Christmas

[Television Movie] 2022
Black Entertainment Television

We Three Queens (season 1)

[Web Series] 2023
OutTV

La Ronde

[Web Series] 2021
Your Cool Aunt Productions // Peach Emoji Productions

Armadillos

[Live Theatre] 2023
Factory Theatre

This Place

[Dance Film] 2021
Guetcha Guaritcha

C O M M I S S I O N S

Choreographer

Dust and Soul Dance
Dead Ends (2023)

Choreographer & Director

Choreographer

Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
Exit Strategies (2023)

Choreographer

Choreographer & Director

Soulpepper Theatre and the City of Toronto
AWAKENINGS "For Sale" (2022)

Choreographer

JOBEL Arts For Earth
TRANSFORMATIONS (2022)

Choreographer

Kaeja d'Dance
Kitchen Dances (2021)

Choreographer

Dusk Dances
RElaps (2021)

Choreographer & Film Maker

Toronto Metropolitan University
CHANGE: 2nd Year Dance Project (2020)

Choreographer & Director

Toronto Concert Orchestra
Voice Of A Nation (2017)

Michele Pearson Clarke
Quantum Choir (2021)

Choreographer & Film Maker

Soulpepper Theatre's Queer Youth Cabaret
fluid (2021)

Choreographer & Film Maker

National Arts Centre
coastline (2021)

Choreographer & Director

Ontario Culture Days
Two Row (2017)

Canadian Opera Company
Voices of Mountains (2021)

Choreographer & Film Maker

Urban Vessel
Four Rooms (2021)

Choreographer & Director

Public Energy
Bridge Over Troubled Water (2020)

Choreographer

Urban Vessel
On The Brink (2017)

P E R F O R M A N C E

Kaeja d'Dance (2022)
I am the Child of

Michael Caldwell for Jamii (2021)
Giizhig

Tapestry Opera (2019)
Shanawdithit

Frog In Hand (2018)
The Fall

Penny Couchie (2015)
When Will You Rage?

If I Should Stumble (2022)
Jenn Goodwin

Peggy Baker Dance Projects (2020)
her body as words

Paradigm Productions (2019)
Four Sisters

Luminato Festival (2018)
La Grand Continental

Expect Theatre (2014)
Beats and Intentions

FabCollab (2021)
WOMEN IN SONG: STRANGE DARLINGS

AWAKENINGS (2020)
A Portrait In Red

Lara Kramer (2018)
Miijin Ki

Signal Theatre (2017)
Bearing

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre (2013/15/16)
Medicine Bear

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
SummerWorks - Opening Party (2023)
Manitoba Opera - Li Keur: Riel's Heart Of The North [Workshop] (2023)
Matriarchs Uprising - Midline (2023)
Yolanda Bonnell - The Eighth Fire [Workshop] (2023)
Pounds Per Square Inch - Buoyancy [Workshop] (2023)
National Arts Centre – Bonfire Sonata [Live Stream] (2020)
Kaeja d’Dance – Lifetime Achievements Awards Performance (2020)
Stratford Festival and The Banff Centre - Pawâkan Macbeth [Workshop] (2020)
Kaeja D'Dance's Wind Down Dance - WAKE (2018)
Natalie Sappier – MAW (2018)
Soulpepper Theatre - Guswenta Gathering (2017)
wind in the leaves collective – Everything is Everything (2017, 2020)
Nightwood Theatre - FEMPOCALYPSE (2017)
Us Arts Collective – A Venue Warming (2016)
Sarain Fox – Indspire Awards Openning (2016)
Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance - Intertribal Gathering (2015)
Sharon Harvey - Solo/SoulsDeep (2015)
Peggy Baker Dance Projects – Light and Shadow (2014)
Julia Sasso Dances – SloE [Workshop] (2012)

C H O R E O G R A P H Y

Midline (2024)
Tarragon Theatre Greenhouse Festival

link (2018)
DanceWorks CoWorks

RANKED (2016)
Toronto Fringe

Heart2Heart (2021)
Virtual Screening

PATHS (2017)
SummerWorks

Desiccated (2015)
SummerWorks

In The Abyss (2019)
Citadel + Compagnie

RElaps (2016)
Toronto Fringe

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Common Ground Dance Festival - I Will Fall [Excerpt] (2022)
Yago Mesquita - CHEW [Workshop] (2022)
ProArteDanza - Love Letter's in Bottles [Workshop] (2020)
Performative Protest - Family Day March for Wet’suwet’en (2020)
iskwē - Breaking Down Music Video (2019)
Kaeja d'Dance's Porch View Dances - Porch 1 (2019)
Half Second Echo - Expectation [Workshop] (2018)
University of Toronto Scarborough - RANKED (2016)
« Gaïa » jette l'encre à La Basse Cour - Desiccated (2016)
Fresh Blood - RANKED (2015)

F A C I L I T A T I O N

Lead Artist The Bentway - Walking:Holding (2024)
Podcast Host Dance Made In Canada - The ‘D’ Word: season 4 (2024)
Facilitator Paprika Festival - Creative Producers Program (2024)
Podcast Host Dance Made In Canada - The ‘D’ Word: season 3 (2023)
Guest Facilitator MOCA Toronto - Youth Council: Art and Social Change (2023)
Facilitator Guelph Dance Festival - Screen Dances Series (2023)
Speaker Breakthroughs Film Festival - Creating Safer Spaces: Intimacy on Screen (2022)
Invited Guest Generator - Intimacy and Self Care check-in (2022)
Facilitator SummerWorks Exchange - Building Consent: A Conversation & Workshop (2022)
Podcast Host The Dance Current - Currently in Dance: bonus episode (2022)
Panelist Playwrights Guild of Canada - The State of Care (2022)
Podcast Host Dance Made In Canada - The ‘D’ Word: season 2 (2022)
Facilitator Guelph Dance Festival - Screen Dances Series (2022)
Co-Facilitator Ontario Presents - Mentorship Program (2021)
Panelist Theatre Passe Muraille and Red Dress Productions - Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Stages (2021)
Roundtable ICC - Issues in Art, Curation and Community Care (2021)
Interviewee Buddies in Bad Times - the Youth/Elder's Project ‘Mixed Race’ (2021)
Interviewee Mixed In The Six Podcast - Through Me, My Ancestors Say “Hello” with Aria Evans (2020)
Panelist Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Ontario – Indigeneity and its Representation in the Arts (2020)
Facilitator Aria Evans - By Us For Us (2020)
Co-Facilitator Cahoots Theatre - MIXTAPE (2020)
Panellist Toronto Dance Community Love-In - Wants&Needs in Uncertain Times (2020)
Interviewee Fall For Dance North – Bathtub Bran (2020)
Panelist Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists - Working Intersections in Dance and Theatre (2019)
Keynote Speaker Dancer Transition Resource Centre - On The Move (2018)
Guest Contributor Canadian Arts Summit (2017)
Panelist Toronto Alliance of Performing Artists – INDIEX, Interdisciplinary panel (2017)

E D U C A T I O N

Intimacy Coordinator Certification Intimacy Professionals Association (2021)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Dance York University (2012)