Lucy Fandel is a French-American dance artist based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Often at the intersection of social, scientific and artistic movement, her site-specific and stage works have been shown in Canada and abroad, and in collaborations as a performer with Wendt+Dufaux, Allison Moore, Nickle Peace-Williams and the collective As They Strike, among others.

photo credit: Nanne Springer

Seika Boye is a writer, scholar, educator, and artist whose practices revolve around dance, movement, Blackness, archives and museums, and embodied pedagogies. She is an Assistant Professor, Associate Director Undergraduate at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto

Dedicated to public scholarship, Seika curated the award winning archival exhibition It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 (2018).

photo credit: Craig Boyko

Mary Fogarty is Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Media, Performance, and Design at York University. Her most recent anthology, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies (co-edited with Imani Kai Johnson), was named one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2023.

Amy Bowring is the Executive & Curatorial Director of Dance Collection Danse where she was mentored by founders Lawrence and Miriam Adams. She teaches dance history at Toronto Metropolitan University and her historical writings have been published widely. She is an outspoken advocate for dance preservation in Canada.

photo credit: Michael Ripley

Travis Knights is a Tap Dancer. Born in Montreal, Canada, Travis was introduced to the rich oral tradition of Tap by his teacher Ethel Bruneau. He went on to travel the world spreading his love of rhythm across 4 continents, touring with Tap Dogs, Tapestry Dance Company, Anandam Dance Theatre and the self-produced Tap Love Tour. In 2024, Travis’ Tap Love Tour production company will release two major works, a feature length documentary called Restorative Culture: Johnathan Morin, and a full length original dance work called The Mars Project. He currently lives in Brampton, Ontario and hosts The Tap Love Tour Podcast, available on spotify, soundcloud and apple podcasts, featuring interviews of a myriad of inspiring tap dance artists.

www.travisknights.com

Hilary Bergen is a writer, dancer and FRQSC Postdoctoral Researcher at The New School in New York City where she studies VR, dance and animated bodies. She is currently co-editing an anthology called Robot Theater and her forthcoming book is Dance Anima: More-than-Human Choreography from Loie Fuller to Boston Dynamics (with Oxford University Press). Her research considers extractive technologies of animation such as motion capture as productive of a new kind of dance archive.

Artiste en danse et commissaire, Karla Etienne s’intéresse à la persistance du corps dans l'espace comme acte de résistance et de sublimation de soi. Karla Etienne poursuit sa contribution comme interprète, mentore, conseillère en gestion ou en mouvement d’artistes et organisations artistiques. Karla reçoit en 2021 le Prix Stellaire de Nyata Nyata pour le service à la grande communauté de la danse.

crédit photo: Mathieu Gaudreault

Bringing particular expertise in visual materials, Theresa Rowat has conducted studies of archival records held by dance organizations and advocated for dance heritage and documentation. Now retired, she has previously worked in government, university and religious archival repositories. She served as a board member of La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault from 2007 to 2017.

Catherine Lavoie-Marcus est une artiste interdisciplinaire et chercheuse en arts vivants basée à Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Depuis 2009, elle présente des créations chorégraphiques dans des contextes variés : sur scène, in situ, dans des galeries d’art et des salles de musées. Elle publie également des réflexions théoriques sous la forme d'articles, de chroniques et d'essais. Catherine détient un doctorat en études et pratiques des arts de l’UQAM.

crédit photo : Pierre Tran