Rumi Jeraj

Curator

Rumi Jeraj is an Ismailli muslim hailing from Sherwood Park Alberta (the world’s largest hamlet). A Graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University Rumi has worked for dance artists including Hannah Kiel, Daryl Tracy, Heidi Strauss, Maxine Hepner and Eilish Shin-Culhane. His creative projects include Space and Spectra; a collaboration with Aidan McConnell which aims to create collaboration between contemporary dancers and musicians, Nature Boy; a collaboration with Bharatanatyam Dancer Purawai Vyas which explores how tap dance and bharatanatyam can intersect, You Can Transform Me an immersive dance VR experience and more. His work has been featured at Dusk Dances, Fall For Dance North’s IPP Independent showcase, Citadel Compagnie’s Night Shift, and various fringe festivals across Canada. As a dancer Rumi recently had the pleasure of performing In Human Body Expressions work Body which toured to South Korea. He is currently in creation for a body percussion work which brings together percussive dancers and musicians from various forms. He aspires to create and be a part of work which mixes forms in order to better tell stories. He believes there is a perfect balance between words, music, and movement which can communicate intellectually, emotionally and viscerally all at once. He aspires to find this state on stage.