Dancemakers 2020-2021 Resident Artists

We’re delighted to tell you who our Resident Artists are this season!

Francesca Chudnoff

Francesca is a Toronto-based millennial, with a BFA in performance, and paying rent as a multidisciplinary artist. She is a dance maker, filmmaker, photographer, a Sagittarius sun and collector of all things shiny. She is curious about the instantaneous energy of communications technology and its inevitable intersection with performance... Read about Fran’s residency here

LUKE GARWOOD

Luke Garwood designs hybrid media installations, dances, and choreographs. Luke was a member of Toronto Dance Theatre for five years before branching out as an independent artist working in Toronto, Montreal, and Berlin and collaborating with companies/individuals such as: Alias Dance Projects, adelheid, Human Body Expression, Tiger Princess Dance Projects, Citadel + Compagnie, Valerie Calam, D.A. Hoskins… Read about Luke’s residency here.

SOFÍ GUDIÑO

Sofí Gudiño is a dance artist and founder of Inamorata Dance Collective. Raised in flamenco and established in contemporary dance, Sofí’s work is marked by emotional intensity and choreographic risk. In Spain, Gudiño has studied flamenco with Úrsula López, Alicia Márquez, Pastora Galván, Patricia Guerrero, and Ramón Martínez… Read about Sofí’s residency here

Aisha Sasha John

Aisha Sasha John is interested in choreographing performances that are the occasion for real and multitudinous actions of love. A choreographer, dancer, and poet, Aisha’s true medium is energy. Her first full-length solo work debuted as the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum in 2017. In 2018, iterations of the aisha of is were presented at Montreal, arts interculturels (MAI) and Toronto’s SummerWorks Festival… Read about Aisha’s residency here

Lara Kramer

Lara Kramer is a performer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Oji-cree and settler heritage, living and working on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kahá:ka Nation. Her choreographic work, research and fieldwork over the last twelve years has been grounded in intergenerational relations, intergenerational knowledge and impacts on colonial trauma… Read about Lara’s residency here

LEE SU-FEH

Lee Su-Feh is an artist whose work encompasses choreography, performance, teaching, mentoring, dramaturgy, writing and community-organizing. Born and raised in Malaysia, she was indelibly marked by teachers who strove to find a contemporary Asian expression out of the remnants of colonialism and dislocated traditions… Read about Su-Feh’s residency here

DANAH ROSALES

Danah Rosales is a Toronto based cis-queer millennial; second-generation Canadian-Filipinx; a daughter; a dawta; a sister; a sis; a mother of two little humans; a mutha of a kiki house; and an artist in which her work encompasses interdisciplinary performance, performing, choreography, collaboration, teaching, and active community participation and organization… Read about Danah’s residency here