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George Stamos

Artist George Stamos is a prolific Montréal-based dance artist whose poetic, transdisciplinary works bring the subconscious into view. George is currently touring his solo Sister Nightlight, which earned acclaim at The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance (Toronto) in 2025. He has held residencies at Baryshnikov Arts Center (NYC) and Agora de la Danse (Montréal), and received the 2014 McKnight Fellowship for International Choreographers. With expertise in postmodern and contemporar

Fedor Bondar

Artist Fedor Bondar is a Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and live-looping artist who crafts immersive, story-driven performances using voice, guitar, flute, jaw harps, melodica, harmonica, and hand percussion. Singing in English, Russian, and Ukrainian, his work bridges ancient acoustic textures with modern looping tools, creating music rooted in presence and connection. For his current project, Fedor collaborates with Venezuelan multidisciplinary sing

DIVKA

Artist DIVKA is a sonic experience using bygone folk songs from Ukrainian and global women’s music-making traditions, weaving a sonic constellation of delicate arpeggios on bandura (esoteric Ukrainian harp), ethereal vocals, and guttural ancient invocations on the viola. As a sonic rebel reckoning, DIVKA’s music is charged with mythology, traditional village singing, and generations of femme power, mystic whimsy, and a dash of vengeance. Their debut album was released April 2

David Norsworthy-Shibatani

Artist David Norsworthy-Shibatani (he/him) is a Tkarón:to/Toronto-based dance artist, choreographer, and artistic director of mixed Japanese immigrant/British settler descent who delights in asking questions. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he is fascinated by the transformative power of dancing. David has performed with dance companies and collaborated with dance creators in Canada, USA, Sweden and Australia. His choreographic work centres collaboration, and often explor

Chantelle Mostacho

Artist Chantelle Mostacho (she/ her) is a Filipino-Canadian multidisciplinary dance artist, choreographer, and educator. She has a foundation spanning classical and contemporary dance forms alongside a decade of experience in street dance, with a heavy focus in Punking/Whacking/Waacking. Known for her powerful artistic voice across choreography and freestyle, her work extends through theatre, film, and commercial platforms, where she pushes creative boundaries and crafts comp

Brianna Maltais

Artist Brianna is a tap dance-based artist whose work explores textural soundscapes, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and fosters opportunities for youth in her hometown of Barrie. Rooted in the historical relationship between tap dance and jazz, her practice celebrates Canadian history, leading her to co-produce a Culture Days event and organize a community visit with tap dance elder Joey Hollingsworth. Her artistic approach is shaped by the vibrant music and dance communit

Andrea Kuzmich

Artist Andrea first made her mark in the music scene as a versatile Toronto singer with performance, leadership and/or composition/arranging roles in classical choral, Congolese gospel, South Indian singing and drumming, vocal jazz (both big band and small ensembles), as well as contemporary improvised new music. Yet, perhaps drawn by a musical thread from her Ukrainian heritage, her professional development got sidetracked early on by the mystique of traditional vocal polyph

Ali Massoudi

Artist Ali Massoudi is an Iranian-born percussionist, composer, and educator based in Canada, with over 30 years of professional experience. He is the co-founder of Navasaz Music Academy and the artistic leader of the Navaye Kimia Ensemble. Ali has toured internationally, collaborated with renowned orchestras and ensembles, and authored five educational books on Persian percussion. His artistic work bridges tradition and innovation, including projects blending Persian music w

Alicia Grant

Artist Alicia Grant received a BFA in Dance from York University.  Her work in performance, video and installation has been presented in Canada, the USA and Europe from stages to swimming pools to gardens to abandoned factories to galleries. She is one part of WITCHTITS, a witch power duo, with Zinzi Buchanan and works in various constellations with other makers in Toronto, Berlin and Zagreb.  She is interested in power dynamics, transformation, fear and intimacy. She works o

Aisha Sasha John

Artist Aisha Sasha John is a performer, choreographer and poet. She’s interested in performance as a site of rehearsing being and in the power of reception as creative methodology. John was the 2023-2025 Affiliate Artist at Toronto Dance Theatre with whom she created her most recent choreographic work, The Pool (March 2025). Other choreographic works include the duet DIANA ROSS DREAM with Devon Snell (Danse-Cité 2022), the aisha of is which premiered at The Whitney Museum in