Cara Spooner
Curator
Cara Spooner is a choreographer, caregiver and caretaker who makes performances, films, textiles and gardens that relate movement to sites and the body.
Her performance work has been presented in Canada at the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), The PuSh International Performance Festival (Vancouver), Canadian Stage (Toronto), FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto) and The Goethe Institut (Toronto) as well as internationally at Stromereien 11 (Zürich) and Theatre Der Welt (Düsseldorf).
Her Audience Handbook has been translated and printed internationally.
She is of Belgian, Scottish, Ukrainian and Russian Jewish ancestry and is based in Tkaranto/Toronto Canada with her partner and two children where she is currently Co-Artistic Producer at Dancemakers.
Curatorial Statement
Cara Spooner takes care of people, processes and places as a producer, choreographer and curator.
Her performance work has been presented in Canada at the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), The PuSh International Performance Festival (Vancouver), Canadian Stage (Toronto), FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto) and The Goethe Institut (Toronto) as well as internationally at Stromereien 11 (Zürich) and Theatre Der Welt (Düsseldorf). Her Audience Handbook has been translated and printed internationally.
She is of Belgian, Scottish, Ukrainian and Belarusian Jewish ancestry and is based in the Treaty 13 territory (Tkaranto/Toronto Canada) with her partner and two children.
She is currently a Co-Artistic Producer at Dancemakers (2021-current).
What Can Dance Curation Do?
Our inaugural symposium about Dance Curation.
Critical Disance Centre for Curation & ONLINE
Jul 17, 2025 – Jul 18, 2025
Curating With Values
Dancemakers’ 2nd annual international Dance Curators symposium
Critical Distance Centre for Curators + Online
Jul 3, 2026 – Jul 4, 2026