Author: DanceWorks Staff

Hanna Kiel is from Seoul, South Korea. After leaving South Korea in 1996, Hanna spent time in Vancouver presenting her work at festivals and theatres, and then moved to Toronto in 2008. She is the artistic director of Human Body Expression and one of the founders of The Garage, a...

Aria Evans is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist working in film, dance creation, and performance. She draws on her experiences as a woman of mixed race, Mi'kmaq/Black/settler heritage, and her B.F.A in dance from York University to capture meaningful social and cultural themes through interactive art. Aria has presented her work alongside...

Lilia Leon is a Mexican-Canadian performing artist with Mestizo heritage. Lilia’s versatile career as a dancer, actor, choreographer and arts educator, has led to collaborations with Indigenous, Canadian, and Latin American artists, who have left an imprint on her artistic practice. Lilia holds a B.A. in dance from York University and...

DanceWorks kicks off the new year with a CoWorks presentation of Dance Ontario's DanceWeekend'18. Founded in 1976 to support the advancement of the discipline, Dance Ontario is a dynamic cross-section of the dance sector with a membership that reflects the province’s diversity through internationally renowned companies, emerging collectives, teachers, studios,...

Flicker, directed by choreographer and performer Margaret Grenier, is a multi-media dance piece performed by Vancouver-based Indigenous dance company, Dancers of Damelahamid of the Gitxsan Nation. The Gitxsan, “people of the river of mists”, are part of the coastal group of cultures renowned for their history of masked dance. Here,...

Rock Bottom Movement's string quartet no. 14 in g major is a dance theatre work about moving on and dreaming big, characterized as "A Chorus Line meets Big Brother Canada". A creation myth about Rock Bottom Movement’s next step after losing a cherished company member to the lure of musical...