Residency
Dance Curation Working Group 2025
Dec 4, 2025 |
Critical Distance & Online
CURATOR
Guest Curator Model
CHOREOGRAPHER
Various
A year-long working group exploring Dance Curation as a practice and role.
This group of independent dance curators will attend all of Dancemakers’ programming as well as other relevant programs across the GTA to experience, reflect, discuss and engage with dance curators working in the field.
Throughout the year, they will work with invited guests to discuss various emergent practices found within dance curation.
These dance curators were selected by our Call for Curators selection committee.
Events this year’s group participated in were:
A lecture with Emelie Chhangur
A lecture with Nicole Mion
A walking tour with Laura Nanni
Artists
Kaili Che
Kaili Che 謝祖弘 is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and movement educator.
Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan
Dr. Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan is an independent curator and writer.
Aisha Sasha John
Aisha Sasha John is a performer, choreographer and poet.
Megha Subramanian
A multi-disciplinary artist, Megha Subramanian practices several forms of storty-telling, constantly engaging with diverse thoughts that question her conditioning.
Wai Liu
Wai Liu is a Hong Kong-born movement artist based in Toronto.
Ralph Escamillan
Ralph Escamillan is a queer, Canadian-Filipinx performance artist, teacher and community leader based on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations – on so called Vancouver, BC.
Tia Kushniruk
Tia Ashley Kushniruk (亚 女弟) is a Chinese-Ukrainian Queer dance/theatre artist based in ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan) Treaty 6/Métis Territory of Edmonton AB.
Rachana Joshi
Rachana Josh i is an independent dance artist based in Tkaronto. She completed her Bharatanatyam arangetram under the tutelage of Lata Pada in 2017 and is currently a company dancer and teacher at Sampradaya Dance Centre.
Dhvani Ramanujam
Dhvani Ramanujam is a writer and emerging curator currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at York University
Brianna Maltais
Brianna is a tap dance-based artist whose work explores textural soundscapes, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and fosters opportunities for youth in her hometown of Barrie.
Roxy Menzies
Roxy Menzies seamlessly weaves the disciplines of dance, writing, and healing arts.
Ranganathan Rajan
Ranganathan Rajan (He/Him) is originally from India and is currently based in Tkaronto.
acCessibilIty
Is the venue wheelchair accessible?
Yes, the venue is wheelchair accessible including ramps into the building, elevators and wheelchair accessible washrooms.
Will the event be ASL Interpreted?
All live events will offer ASL interpretation (upon request). Please contact us to request ASL Interpretation.
Will the event be described for Blind and low vision audiences?
This performance does not include audio description.
In partnership with
otheR eveNts
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