Our Curators

As a Street Dance artist and community advocate, my work is rooted in the belief that dance is a powerful tool for expression, storytelling, and cultural preservation.

Arts Assembly is a not-for-profit, community-centric arts organization that emphasizes artistic collaboration.

Bageshree Vaze is an Indo-Canadian dance artist and musician.

Celia Green’s practice spans choreography, curation, performance, and more. They are interested in gender, bodily sensation, mess, and pursuing freedom.

Erin Poole is a Tkaronto-based dancer, choreographer, facilitator, and practice-based researcher.

Holly Chang is a Toronto based artist, curator, and researcher. Her practice is focused on topics of hybridity, craft, and ecology.

Kwasi Obeng-Adjei is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist, emerging choreographer, and dance educator based in Brampton, Ontario.

Lamont is an emerging contemporary mover and creator.

Curator Maxine Heppner is a dance & inter-medial artist & educator known for her dedication to collaboration and community building since the 1970’s.

Mel Hart is a Scarborough-born dance artist and curator with the goal to bridge street, stage, and community.

Nithya Garg is an artist, curator, and producer who has trained in the south asian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam.

Rita Barieieva is a Ukrainian-born, Vancouver-based street dance artist, DJ, and curator

Rumi Jeraj is an Ismailli muslim hailing from Sherwood Park Alberta.

Shay Erlich (they/them) is a disability justice world builder living in Tkaronto.

Toronto-based Tanveer Alam started his Kathak training with Sudeshna Maulik and continued further nuanced studies with guru Sandhya Desai.