Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan
Artist
Dr. Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan is an independent curator and writer whose practice explores how somatics, contemporary art, and relationality can engage personal and collective experience through live, durational, and interdisciplinary forms.
She has curated projects with organizations including Balancing Act Canada, FADO Performance Art Centre, the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Vtape, and Hemispheric Encounters.
She is on faculty at Dance Arts Institute (formerly the School of Toronto Dance Theatre) and has previously held positions with the University of Toronto, Hart House, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, and the Blackwood Gallery.
Dance Curation Working Group 2025
Throughout the year, dance curators will work with invited guests to discuss various emergent practices found within dance curation.
Critical Distance & Online
Dec 4, 2025 – Jul 23, 2026
POOLBODY
POOLBODY is a multi-site performance series exploring pools as contested, complex, and imaginative sites of public gathering, bodily encounter, recreation, and social history & supported by Dancemakers’ Curators in Community Fund.
Aug 6, 2026 – Aug 9, 2026