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Kathleen Rea danced with Canada’s Ballet Jorgen, National Ballet of Canada & Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). She fell in love with contact improvisation (CI) 21 years ago and has been involved in the CI community ever since. She has choreographed over 40 dance works and been nominated for 5 DORA awards. Kathleen has a learning disability that throughout her life has meant that writing take 4 to 8 times longer than the average person. It is one of life’s great surprises and mysteries for her that despite the struggle she developed a love of writing and is a published author (“The Healing Dance” -Charles C. Thomas Publisher, as well as blog and academic writing). She has a Master’s in Expressive Arts with a minor in Psychology. She has a passion for functional movement and is a teacher candidate of the Axis Syllabus. She is the director of REAson d’etre dance productions a not-for-profit contact improvisation based dance company that produces a weekly dance jam in Toronto, the Contact Dance International Film Festival and dance-theatre productions. Being on the autism spectrum she also identifies as being neuro-atypical and works to educate the world about neurodiversity.

Tristan R. Whiston is a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked in Toronto’s arts community for over 25 years as a director, dramaturge, writer, performer, and community artist. Tristan has written and directed five audio documentaries for CBC; most notably, his work, Middle C, won the 2007 Premios Ondas Award for International Radio. As the Artist-in-Residence at Central Toronto Youth Services (2004 to 2010), Tristan directed Gender Play,a theatre project working with LGBTQ youth exploring experiences of gender identity. Tristan recently collaborated with Moynan King on an integrated art and sound performance piece called trace, which toured Canada in 2015. In 2016, Tristan travelled to England where he was dramaturge and performer on Hush, a new musical written by Alex Bulmer which was presented at the London International Festival of Theatre and at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

Karen Kaeja is an award-winning performer, choreographer, mentor, community builder and project instigator whose work interrogates relational feminine perspectives. “The mastermind behind Porch View Dances” Toronto Star, she develops performance platforms provoking collaborative relationships between dancers, everyday people and the body. Co-Artistic Director of Kaeja d’Dance with Allen Kaeja, her awards include the 2019 Dance Ontario Lifetime Achievement Award, the CDA “I Love Dance” Community Award and the Paul D. Fleck Fellowship for Innovation (Banff). She has been honoured with 7 Dora Mavor Moore nominations, including 4 for Crave (winning outstanding male). “When she dances, her reserve turns into something almost violently intense.” Globe and Mail. Karen is distinguished in The Canadian Who’s Who, was a finalist for the TAF Muriel Sherrin Award for International achievement, the CDA Innovation Award, NOW’s Best Local Choreographer and twice nominated for NOW’s Best Dance Company. Commissioned and presented by performance series around the world, she continues to dance for many of Canada’s brilliant choreographers, including Kathleen Rea’s productions since 2002. Karen is the Stratford Festival’s first movement dramaturge, engaged for the 2020 premiere of Wendy and Peter Pan. www.kaeja.org

Suzanne Liska has choreographed and danced in works for CanAsian KickStart, DanceWorks CoWorks, Dusk Dances, and Dance Matters, receiving grants and awards through York University, the Toronto Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council. Since 2008, Suzanne has had the honour of performing in several of Kathleen Rea’s works. Recently in 2019, Suzanne co-choreographed “Thread Bound” a dance-theatre duet with Kathleen, reviewed as “elegant and evocative...relentless energy and beautifully executed choreography” (Bateman Review 2019). Suzanne has also originated in roles for choreographers Maxine Heppner, Pam Johnson, Karen Kaeja, and Susan Lee. Suzanne’s next project is a co-creation with dance artist Takako Segawa along with composer Heidi Chan. As a Certified Alexander Technique Teacher and a Teaching member of ATI (Alexander Technique International) with a B.A., B. Education, and a SHHRC funded MFA in Choreography, Suzanne teaches professional dancers, actors, community dancers, and high school and elementary school students. She has taught workshops for Collective Gulp in Ottawa, CCDC in Calgary, CINN in Tokyo, and Leviathan studio in BC and in Toronto for Randolph Performing Arts College, Ryerson University, George Brown and Humber College. She is contract Faculty in York University’s Dance department. www.suzanneliska.com
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Luke Anderson
Sofia Castillo Ardines
Aya Belsheim |
Zoomprov (2022)
Dancing with the Universe (2022)
Close Knit (2007) |
Johanna Bergfeldt
Aurthur Bernard |
VIVID (2002), Studio VIVID (2005), VIVID (2006)
Contact Dance Film Festival Headline Artist (2015) |
Piotr Biernat |
Fleeting (2002) |
Travis Birch |
VIVID (2006) |
Tom Brouillette |
Fleeting (2002), Long Live (2008) |
Braydon Cairns
Yves Candau
Dawn Carlton
Vivian Chong |
Dancing with the Universe (2020 & 2022)
Unraveling (2011)
Bodies in the Moment (2002)
Dancing with the Universe (2020 & 2022) |
Bill Coleman
Courtnae Bowman |
Men's Circle (2017)
VIVID (2002), Elysian (2002) |
Bess Callard |
Studio IRE (2005), IRE (2006) |
Dianne Chappitus |
Bodies in the Moment (2001) |
Monique Comeau |
Close Knit (2007) |
Eryn Dace-Trudell |
Fleeting (2002) |
Sid Ryan Eilers
Amy Ehrhardt |
Dancing with the Universe (2022)
Close Knit (2007) |
Samantha Farruggio
Anna Finkel |
Unraveling (2011)
Studio IRE (2005), IRE (2006) |
Nicole Fougère
Miranda Forbes |
Marrow (2003)
Unraveling (2011) |
Francisca de la Mora
Sharon Fridman |
Bodies in the Moment (2002)
Contact Dance Film Festival Headline Artist (2015) |
Nickeshia Garrick
Ella Gladstone |
Dancing with the Universe (2022)
Lapinthrope (2005) |
Amy Hampton
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Elysian (2002), Fleeting (2002), Marrow( 2003) |
Anna Hein
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Lapinthrope (2005), Frauenmythos (2000) |
Tom Hui
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Bodies in the Moment (2002) |
Dwain Jones
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Bodies in the Moment (2002 |
Pam Johnson
Janet Johnson |
Bodies in the Moment (2001), VIVID (2006)
Unraveling (2011) |
Robert Halley |
Long Live (2008) |
Allen Kaeja |
Bodies in the Moment (2002), Lapinthrope (2005), Men's Circle (2017) |
Karen Kaeja |
Bodies in the Moment (2002), Fleeting (2003), Marrow (2004), IRE (2006), Long Live (2008), Unraveling (2011), Dancing with the Universe (2020 & 2022) |
Andre Kamienski
Kirstie Keenan
Ryan Kostyniuk
Ben Lansberg
Emily LeBlanc
Martine Lamy |
Contact Dance International Film Festival (2017)
Unraveling (2011)
Dancing with the Universe (2022)
Dancing with the Universe (2020)
Etched (2019), Dancing with the Universe (2020)
Night Shells (1995) |
Marlene Latour |
Close Knit (2007), Long Live (2008) |
Paul Lewis
Suzanne Liska |
Men's Cirlce (2017), Querying Gender (2022)
Close Knit (2007), Long Live (2008), Unraveling The Tight Weave (2011), Thread Bound (2019), Dancing with the Universe (2020 and 2022) |
Taylor Lorette |
Close Knit (2007) |
Sarah MacDonald
Steff Mendolia
Mayumu Minakawa
Shiela Muir |
Unraveling (2011)
Contact Zoomprov (2022)
Contact Dance International Film Festival (2017)
Bodies in the Moment (2001-02), Frames (2002), VIVID (2003) |
Eva Muller |
Frauenmythos (2000) |
Emma Murray |
Pieces of Undressing (1999) |
Kousha Nakhaei
Rudi Natterer
Jonathon Neville
Yvonne Ng
Malgorzata Nowacka
Zita Nyarady
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Men's Circle (2017)
Men's Circle (2017), Dancing with the Universe (2022)
Querying Gender (2022)
Fleeting (2003)
VIVID (2002), Lapinthrope (2005)
Dancing with the Universe (2022) |
Chelsea O'Brian |
Long Live (2008) |
Cheryl O
Lisa Otto |
Dancing with the universe (2020 $ 2022)
Marrow (2002), Fleeting (2003) |
Lisa Pijuan |
Bodies in the Moment (2001 & 2002) |
Marlowe Porter |
Close Knit (2007) |
Allison Rees Cummings
Jen Roy
Jessica Runge |
Series 8:08 (2002)
Zoomprov (2022)
Unraveling (2011) |
Deltin Sejours
Alexander Short
Malcolm Shute
Meghan Smith |
Men's Cirlce (2017)
Contact Dance Internattional Film Festival (2017)
Contact Dance Internattional Film Festival (2017)
Close Knit (2007) |
Holly Small |
Unraveling (2011) |
Teisha Smith |
VIVID (2006), Long live (2008), Unraveling (2011) |
Veronica Smyth |
Close Knit (2007) |
Taeji
Valentina Tambini
Harold Tausch
Elise Tigges
Mateo Galindo Torres
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Bodies in the Moment (2001-2002)
Concert Series (2022)
Men's Cricle (2017)
Dancing with the Universe (2022)
Men's Cirlce (2017), Etched (2019), Querying Gender (2022) |
Lee Walder
Harriet Waghorn
Jayeden Walker
Tom Weksler
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Long Live (2008), Unraveling (2011), Groundswell (2012)
Contact Dance International Film Festival (2017)
Querying Gender (2022)
Contact Dance International Film Festival (2017)
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William Yong |
VIVID (2002), Lapinthrope (2005)
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