Jolyane Langlois

Jolyane Langlois decided to pursue a dance career while watching Paul-André Fortier perform Solo 30x30 in 2006. She started her dance training in Montréal at L’UQAM and graduated from The School of Toronto Dance Theater in May 2012.

She worked with Allison Cummings and Deborah Pearson for The Queen West Project (2012), performed at the Canadian Dance Festival in June 2013 for Eroca Nicols in DIMBY and was part of Night Shift, a durational work created by Michael Trent and Brendan Fernandes. Jolyane is a member of Social Growl Dance, a young company under the artistic direction of Riley Sims. She dances for Corpus (Feet in the air, Head on the ground!), Jillian Peever and Viv Moore. She will be seen on screen in Disco Temple, a short film created by Cynical People. Jolyane is a curious, risk-taking and passionate dance artist interested in performance art and the use of non-conventionnal spaces and urban landscapes.

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Anna Mayberry

Anna Mayberry is a dancer, choreographer, and musician from Toronto.  Having trained in Ballet and Modern dance in Toronto, she moved to Montreal to attend Concordia University. Anna graduated with a BFA in Contemporary Dance in 2013.  In Montreal, Anna performed in various works at Usine C, Monument National, Tangente, Studio 303, Mainline Theatre, and Moyse Hall.

In 2011, Anna was both a performer and curator for the Art Matters Festival. As Anna’s choreographic process developed, she began to work within sound, video, and performance art practices.  While studying at Concordia, Anna created several performative works in collaboration with musicians and sound artists, including a yearlong investigation of vehicular movement with trumpeter Phillippe Battikha, resulting in two new works, Line of Flight and L’Inter-Etre.  From 2011 to 2012, Anna played a small role in Caroline Laurin-Beaucage and Martin Messier’s dance piece SOAK. In her final year at school, Anna collaborated with a small group of electro-acoustics and dance students to create an improv-based performance at the VAV Gallery, under the moniker TUNS.

Anna is currently developing two music projects, HSY and ANAMAI, both based in Toronto.  She is also a member of the Do What You Can arts collective.  Anna is increasingly interested in the contamination of “bands” and “dance”.

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Andrew Hartley

A graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Andrew Hartley of Moncton, New Brunswick, has performed in work by an eclectic group of emerging and established artists, including Joanie Audet, Serge Bennathan, Sylvie Bouchard, Susie Burpee, Angela Blumberg, Allison Cummings, David Earle, DA Hoskins, Indrit Kasapi, Noémie Lafrance, Meagan O’Shea, Simon Renaud, Andrea Spaziani and Dan Wild. 

 He is a founding member of Warm Laundry, creating and performing with his colleagues of the collective.  His work has been presented at Buddies and Bad Times Theatre in an evening of work by emerging multidisciplinary artists and at the Enwave Theatre as part of Fresh Blood.  He takes great joy in working with children and teaches in the Young Dancers’ Program at the School of TDT and as guest faculty of DancEast Dance Centre de Danse in Moncton.

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Lee Gelbloom

Lee Gelbloom began dancing intensively at the age of 13 when she was accepted at Etobicoke School for the Arts in Toronto, ON. Her studies continued at Concordia University in Montreal, Qc. where she graduated in 2011 with a BFA in Contemporary Dance.

While in Montreal she participated in numerous festivals and performances such as: Art Matters, Bouge d’ici as well as creating her own independent work presented as part of Semaine de la Danse.

After travelling through SouthEast Asia and the Middle East, Lee has returned to Toronto where she is currently working as company member in Social Growl Dance and participating in Dancemakers’ EDAP project. In addition, she is collaborating with musician Raz Koren.

Through training with acclaimed teachers Lee has applied several distinct techniques to her own practice. She has developed a mature, complex, grounded and captivating way of moving.

Lee is excited to be back in her hometown working with Toronto artists. She is always eager to explore new opportunities working in partnership with others as well as developing outlets for her own creative process.

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Riley Sims

Riley is a graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre's Professional Training program in Contemporary Dance and the Musical Theatre program at Wexford School for the Arts.

Since graduating from TDT, Riley has danced for numerous choreographers, including Tedd Robinson, Noam Gagnon, Andrew Turner, Yvonne Coutts and Darryl Tracy.

He has performed in a remoung of Danny Grossman's Triptych for Older and Reckless and the Bravofact film Unseen Spaces, choreographed by Allen Kaeja. In 2012, Riley had the pleasure of performing in Dances for Youth by Youth, a project mentored by Peter Boneham and Sylvie Desosiers in Ottawa. He is currently a company member of Ottawa Dance Directive under the artistic direction of Yvonne Coutts. Since joining the company, Riley has had the opportunity to perform at the Canada Dance Festival (2012).

Riley presents his own work under his company name Social Growl Dance. Since its inception in 2012, Social Growl Dance has presented work in Toronto at Dance Matters and the SummerWorks Festival opening night party (2013).

Most recently, Riley was commissioned by visual artist Melody-Blue Lassen to create For Morgan, his latest piece with Social Growl Dance. For Morgan premiered in October 2013 as part of R.I.P. Morgan Freeman an exhibition curated by Klassen at Galery 1313. Riley has also choreographed for Wexford School for the Arts and the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts Kid's Program.

Upcoming projects include Facets, a new world premiere from Tedd Robinson in May of 2015 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

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