Jonathan Osborn is a Toronto-based artist, educator, and scholar whose research interests include nonhuman bodies, choreographic transmission and translation, practice as research, and representations of animate life within film, animation, and video games. Jonathan holds a PhD in Dance Studies from York University and is a graduate of School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s professional training …
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Jessica Runge
Jessica Runge is an award-winning dance artist and educator. She has performed to critical acclaim across Canada and internationally in the works of a number of notable choreographers, including Peggy Baker, Peter Chin, and Christopher House. She has danced in the major Canadian dance companies the Toronto Dance Theatre and Le Groupe Dance Lab, and …
Syreeta Hector
Syreeta Hector is a dance artist and educator in Toronto, Ontario. As a highly accomplished performer, she has worked for internationally recognized companies such as Adelheid Dance Projects, Danny Grossman Dance Company, Peggy Baker Dance Projects, and Toronto Dance Theatre. She is a proud graduate of The National Ballet School’s Teacher Training Program, The School …
Evadne Kelly
Evadne Kelly is a dance artist and scholar with a PhD in Dance Studies from York University, an MA in Anthropology from McMaster University, and an Hon. BA in Women Studies, Equity Studies, and Anthropology from University of Toronto. She has presented and published on topics relevant to the fields of anthropology and dance studies …
Suzanne Liska
Suzanne Liska is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and researcher based in dance ethnography, practice-based-choreographic research, cultural theory, Asian dance theatre forms, improvisation and somatics. Suzanne has choreographed and performed works presented by CanAsian KickStart, DanceWorks CoWorks, Dusk Dances, Dance Matters, and Harbourfront Centre, receiving grants and awards through York University, the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and …
Tanya Berg
Tanya Berg is a Toronto-based ballet teacher, dance educator, and researcher. She holds a PhD in Dance Studies from York University and is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School Teacher Training Program. Tanya currently teaches in the Faculty of Education and the Dance Department at York University, as well as the Faculty of Kinesiology and …
Jennifer Jimenez
Jennifer Jimenez is a community engaged artist with an extensive career as a national and international scenographer for live performance. She holds an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK, a BFA in Theatre Production and Design, and BEd from York University. She has received an …
Susan Lee
Susan Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at York University whose embodied research focuses on the intersection of identity, place and space in interdisciplinary/intermedial collaborations which are performed on stage, on site and online. A Dora-nominated dancer, Lee’s professional career as a performer, choreographer, and teacher spans thirty years. She has …
Modesto Mawulolo Amegago
Professor Amegago is a specialist in West African Performance arts with broad interest in the field of cultural studies, interdisciplinary music dance and theatre performance, cross-cultural aesthetics, curriculum development and implementation, arts and education philosophy, West African and African Diaspora ceremonies and festivals. He began performing music and dance and ceremonies at a very early …
Patrick Alcedo
Recipient of the President’s University-Wide Teaching Award for the senior full-time faculty category, Dr. Patrick Alcedo is a dance ethnographer, a specialist on Philippine traditional dances, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He is the Chair of and a Professor in the Department of Dance at York University, the most comprehensive department of its kind in …
