Morgyn Aronyk-Schell
Performer / Arts Education Facilitator (Dance)
Johanna Bergfelt
Performer / Rehearsal Director
Johanna Bergfelt, a native of Sweden, graduated from The Royal Swedish Ballet School in 1989. She has an extensive performance background beginning with Östgötabaletten, where she worked for six years,and later joined Norrdans, and the Barents Dance Ensemble. Since coming to Canada in 2000, Johanna has worked with The Chimera Project, Kaeja d’Dance, Kathleen Rea, Santee Smith, Darcey Callison, Louis Laberge-Côté, Kate Alton, Holly Small, William Yong, Pro Arte Danza, Mairéad Filgate, Yvonne Ng, and the Toronto Dance Theatre, where she was a company dancer for six years. From 2019 – 2022 Johanna was an Artistic Associate at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Since fall 2022 she has worked as both a dancer as well as rehearsal director for Citadel + Compagnie. Johanna has been nominated four times for a Dora Mavor Moore Award.
As a teacher Johanna teaches regularly at In Studio, The Citadel, her own online classes, The Dance Institute, and company classes at Toronto Dance Theatre.
Amelia Brown
Performer
Charlotte Cain
Performer
Charlotte Cain is an emerging dance artist from Ottawa, where she first trained at National Capital Dance Educators and De La Salle High School’s CEAO specialized dance program. Continuing her studies at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, recently renamed Dance Arts Institute, she studied Graham technique, served as a producer for a student-run production, and received the Winchester Prize for choreographic distinction. Following graduation, Charlotte deepened her craft by sharing her passion for dance including as a dancer, teacher, choreographer, rehearsal director, archival assistant and content creator. She premiered her first dance film, “What Is I’m From,” at the SummerWorks Performance Festival in 2021, and premiered “the contents,” a self-choreographed solo, through Floorplay in a co-production with Ottawa Dance Directive, in 2024. Since performing in an excerpt in DanceWeekend ’22, Charlotte’s worked with Yvonne Ng on her Dora nominated work for Outstanding Ensemble and Choreography, All That Is Between. In addition to performance, Charlotte taught dance with various organizations including Express Dance and Kaeja Elevations with Kaeja d’Dance, and most recently with The Fifth’s Emerging Practice Cohort in 2025. Now, Charlotte’s venturing on to the creation of a group work that began early 2026 through The National Ballet of Canada’s Open Space Program. She contributes to the diverse landscape of Toronto’s dance community, including with The Fifth Dance, Citadel + Compagnie, Fall for Dance North and 2025 Dora Mavor Moore Award juror. Charlotte’s deeply committed to cultivating meaningful ways to share dance and inspire curiosity, community and empowerment.
Marie-Josée Chartier
Outside Eye / Creative Facilitator
A multi-faceted artist, Marie-Josée Chartier moves easily between the worlds of dance, music, opera and multi-media in the roles of choreographer, performer, director, vocalist or teacher. Her choreographic works have been presented in festivals in Canada, Europe and Latin America and have been featured on documentary films and presented on national television and film festivals.
She is the recipient of the 2001 K.M. Hunter Artist Award, the 2015 Jacqueline Lemieux Prize, nine Dora Mavor Moore Awards nominations winning for fifty-one pieces of silver and sharing with Urge for And by the way Miss. Since 2000, Marie-Josée Chartier is in demand as a director of dance, multi-media and opera productions and collaborates with Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, the Gryphon Trio, Toca Loca, Tapestry Opera and l’Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal. She is also active as a guest teacher in major training centres and universities in Canada as well as in Latin America in the field of modern dance, movement for singers and musicians, voice exploration and improvisation.
In 2003, Marie-Josée Chartier founded Chartier Danse in order to support her creative activities. Acclaimed large scale productions include petites danses 2014 (six dance works, 4 short films and 25 performers), Red Brick celebrating composer Michael J. Baker with Arraymusic, Contes pour enfantspas sages with PPS Danse, Screaming Popes with fabrik Potsdam, Germany and Bas-Reliefs with Danse-Cité including eleven collaborators from Montreal and Toronto.
Irvin Chow
Performer
Irvin Chow graduated with a BFA in Dance at York University. Through the years he has toured across Canada and internationally working with many choreographers such as: Angela Blumberg, Sylvie Bouchard, Jasmyn Fyffe, Robert Glumbek, Michael Greyeyes, Terrill Maguire and Yvonne Ng. Irvin has had the pleasure of performing in David Earle’s, Miserere, in the Toronto Heritage Dance project as well as in William Yong’s Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage show, vox:lumen. He has worked with Christopher House’s as part of Toronto Dance Theatre in 2015 and was honoured to dance for Julia Sasso again in the remount of her much-acclaimed work, Sporting Life. Irvin’s latest performance was with tiger princess dance projects in Time Travel while Standing Still and looks forward to working with them more this season. Irvin has been working with tiger princess dance projects since 2012.
Rumi Jeraj
Performer
Rumi Jeraj is an Ismailli muslim hailing from Sherwood Park Alberta (the world’s largest hamlet). A Graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University Rumi has worked for dance artists including Hannah Kiel, Daryl Tracy, Heidi Strauss, Maxine Hepner and Eilish Shin-Culhane. He has presented his work at Dusk Dances, the Hamilton Fringe Festival, Citadel Compagnie’s Night Shift, Interaccess Gallery and Common Ground Dance Festival. Notable projects include Nature Boy a collaboration with Purawai Vyas (a Bharatanatyam dancer) which saw the pair exchange over rhythm and culture and Space and Spectra a collaboration with drummer Aidan McConnell which brought together contemporary dancers and free improvised musicians. Rumi just completed a season as guest curator for Dance Makers exploring what the tap shoe of the future might look like. Shoe Dreams brought together dancers, shoe makers and designers to collectively dream up this shoe. He is currently interested in bringing together his Tap and Contemporary dance practices to create a body percussion work on dancers and musicians of various forms and traditions. He aspires to create and be a part of work which mixes forms in order to better tell stories. He believes there is a perfect balance between words, music, and movement which can communicate intellectually, emotionally and viscerally all at once. He aspires to find this state on stage.
Yuichiro Inoue
Performer
Yuichiro Inoue is a choreographer, dancer and teacher. Who performed as a member of the Toronto Dance Theatre for 18 years. Born in Japan, Yuichiro moved to Germany at the age of 15 to study at the John Cranko Ballet School in Stuttgart, Germany. He spent nine years as a member of the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, and Staatstheater in Saarbruecken. In 2004, he moved to Toronto and completed RAD certification and the Teacher Training Program at Canada’s National Ballet School before joining TDT under the direction of Christopher House. Yuichiro received the Hiroshima International Dance Competition choreography award, multiple Dora award nominations, and a nomination for the Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Award. Yuichiro has taught at many of Canada’s and Japan’s foremost dance institutions, including Toronto Dance Theatre, Ballet Company- Ballet Jörgen, School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Canada’s National Ballet School, Kobe College( Japan), Quinte Ballet School, Claude Watson Arts Program Dance Arts Institute. He currently teaches at York University and George Brown College. Pia Bouman Ballet School. His students have gone on to be accepted into prestigious post-secondary programs and companies, such as the Netherlands Dance Theatre and the National Ballet of Canada.
A co-founder of 3+ Dance Collective with Pulga Muchochoma and Naishi Wang, Yuichiro’s choreographic work has included commissions for Toronto Dance Theatre, George Brown College, Dance Arts Institute, Dusk Dances, and Guelph Dance Festival. Nagata Shachu, Etobicoke School of the Arts, Claude Watson Arts Program, Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, Matsuoka Ballet (Japan), award-winning film, international festivals, and competitions.
Mairéad Filgate
Performer / Arts Education Facilitator (Dance)
Mairéad Filgate (Toronto/Montreal) has created and performed nationally and internationally with many of Canada’s most celebrated dance artists. As a founding member of the award-winning collaborative trio Throwdown Collective, she spent 15 years co-creating choreography for parks, forests, stages, runways, and film. Her outdoor site-specific choreography brings to light the beauty of the everyday, most recently in Le mur (2025) performed in Montreal’s Plateau neighborhood by seven local performers. With Shannon Litzenberger, she is co-founder of PlaySpace, applying creative practice toward collaborative leadership, community health, and inclusive culture-making. Inspired by her time as a member of Canada’s Danny Grossman Dance Company (2003-2008), Mairéad is collecting oral histories of company members, exploring the social, economic, political, and personal landscapes that influenced the company through a multitude of voices and perspectives. She is currently a Scholar-in-Residence at Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, working towards the publication of a book and development of a documentary film script. Mairéad is proud to have been one of the founding members of tiger princess dance projects’ Swallowing Clouds program, helping to develop the program since 2009. She continues to facilitate the program as well as offer professional development and training for facilitators.
Amelie Mah
Understudy (Dance)
Amelie Mah (any pronouns) is a Chinese Canadian performer, creator, and collaborator. In her own works, Amelie loves exploring how combining spoken and physical expression with her movement practice can serve to create compelling stories. Amelie Mah is a 2025 TMU graduate with a BFA in dance.
Luke Garwood
Outside Eye / Creative Technologist
Luke Garwood makes hybrid media installations, dances, and choreographs. Garwood has performed with companies such as Toronto Dance Theatre, Alias Dance Projects, adelheid, tiger princess dance projects, and Citadel + Compagnie. Independently, Garwood works in Toronto and Berlin, collaborating with choreographers such as: Valerie Calam, D.A. Hoskins, Allison Cummings, Sashar Zarif, Kate Hilliard, and Christoph Winkler. Garwood has received 6 Dora Mavor Moore nominations, and landed a win with Michael Caldwell and Naishi Wang for best ensemble in Heidi Strauss’ what it’s like. Garwood attained a BDes in Digital Futures from OCAD U, where he received the Dr. Eugene A. Poggetto, and Dorothy Hoover awards. As a maker, Luke investigates digitally translating the body and movement; this research includes developing Ephemeral, an app based augmented reality (AR) performance, creating Wounded Woods, an AR and photography exhibition with collaborator Jeremy Mimnagh, and making In Shift, a movement and VR installation for the d:mic/fac festival 2019.
Heather MacCrimmon
Costume Designer
Heather MacCrimmon is a Canadian costume designer, since 2005 primarily based in Potsdam, Germany.
In addition to a Certificate of Costume Studies from Dalhousie University, Heather also studied dance and performed in independent
Toronto productions ( Randy Glynn Dance Project and Sound Image Theatre among others). She has worked in the costume field for film, television and theatre, but through her connection with the dance world costuming modern dance has been her focus. Canadian choreographers she has worked with include Serge Bennathan (Dancemakers),Marie-Josée Chartier, Sarah Chase, Susanna Hood, Claudia Moore, and Heidi Strauss. In Germany she has continued to costume contemporary dance as well as children’s theatre, new circus productions and has frequently collaborated with the Scottish site specific performance company Dudendance.
In recent years Heather began teaching sewing classes and has had the opportunity to work in schools , helping children create the costumes for
their own productions. She has also enjoyed being the costume advisor for Rote Nasen, a German wide organisation that trains and facilitates hospital clown visits.
She has been happy to work with Yvonne Ng / tiger princess on the following productions : Wéi, Magnetic Fields, Paper Women, The Collections Series and Cypress
Frédérique Perron
Understudy
Frédérique Perron is a contemporary dance artist and facilitator from Amikitik/La Sarre in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Since graduating from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre in 2022, she has continued to develop her artistic practice through ongoing dialogue with dance communities in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Tkaronto/Toronto, and her home region.
She views dance as a catalyst for encounter, reflection, and collective transformation. As a performer, she has collaborated with artists including Katie Adams-Gossage, Philippe Dépelteau, Frog in Hand, Rozenn Lecomte, and Sofía Ontiveros, and has performed at Citadel Dance Mix, dance:made in Canada | fait au Canada, Fringe Festivals, Fall for Dance North, and SummerWorks.
Across her performance, creative, and pedagogical practices, she is interested in what activates sensation and how connecting to movement impulses can foster a sense of groundedness. Frédérique strives to create spaces where individuality is celebrated. She is particularly drawn to the power of vulnerability in dance—how it can spark connection and give rise to embodied, intimate, and resonant narratives.
Erin Robinsong
Poet / Outside Eye
Erin Robinson is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Rag Cosmology, her debut collection of poetry, is forthcoming with BookThug in spring 2017. She is also the author of four chapbooks, and her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Capilano Review, Canadian Xtasy, Dandelion, The Goose, Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry; Tag: Canadian Poets at Play and onstage at the &NOW Festival of New Writing, The Conference on Ecopoetics, and many others. Recent / upcoming performance works include This ritual is not an accident and Trading Power (2017) with choreographer Andréa de Keijzer. She won the Irving Layton Award for Poetry at Concordia University, and has been nominated for a KM Hunter Award. Originally from Cortes Island, BC, Erin lives between Toronto & Montréal.
Sierra Chin Sawdy
Performer
Sierra Chin Sawdy (she/her) is an independent dance artist and arts educator based in Tkaronto. Since graduating from Toronto Metropolitan University’s BFA Dance program, she has had the opportunity to work and perform with Alysa Pires Dance Projects, BoucharDanse, Brodie Stevenson, Citadel + Compagnie, Dancetheatre David Earle, Dusk Dances, Emma Kerson, Hanna Kiel, Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Aria Evans/Political Movement, tiger princess dance projects, and Toronto Heritage Dance. She has toured throughout Canada, China, Europe, Mexico and the UAE. To further develop her abilities, Sierra has trained across Canada, the United States, Israel, and Italy, working and creating with world-renowned artists.
Arun Srinivasan
Lighting Designer
Arun has worked extensively in the performing arts for over 30 years. He has designed for 4 seasons at The Stratford Festival. Theatre credits in Toronto include Soulpepper, Tarragon, Crow’s, Factory, Canadian Stage, Musical Stage Co. and The Royal Conservatory. Dance collaborators have included Robert Desrosiers, Peter Chin, Danny Grossman, Santee Smith, The National Ballet School, ProArteDanza, Jaberi Dance Theatre, Throwdown Collective and tiger princess dance projects. His career has garnered him 10 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for Outstanding Lighting Design in both the theatre and dance categories. Arun has had the privilege of teaching and / or mentoring at York University, Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Waterloo, The National Theatre School & The Banff Centre. Productions have taken him to Sweden, Ukraine, Mexico, Malaysia, Singapore, India, China and across North America. Arun is a member of The Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC 659. When not working in the dark, he is a big motorcycle enthusiast and you’ll find him cruising.
Nick Storring
Composer
Award-winning composer Nick Storring creates scores for performers, but has also generated a body of multi-layered recorded work consisting of his own performances on a wide and largely acoustic variety of instruments. He has collaborated with a number of leading artists and organizations in contemporary music including Montréal’s AKOUSMA Festival, Oxford UK’s Audiograft Festival, the Esprit Orchestra, Arraymusic, Soundstreams, Eve Egoyan, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Quatuor Bozzini and Vancouver New Music. His recordings have appeared on acclaimed experimental music imprints such as We Are Busy Bodies, Orange Milk, Mappa, and Entr’acte. Storring’s interest in parallel art-forms has translated into several film and theatre scores as well as collaborations with choreographers such as Sylvie Bouchard, Yvonne Ng, Deepti Gupta, and Brandy Leary.
Sim Suzer
Costume Designer
Recent Design Work: Costume Design and Associate Set Design for Everybody (Shaw Festival), Costume Design for Per Gint (George Brown College), Associate Costume Design for Three Women from Swatow (Tarragon Theatre), Set and Costume Design for Untamed (XU) Stratford Festival 2021: Assistant Set and Costume Design for Romeo and Juliet. Shaw Festival 2020: Assistant Costume Design for Gypsy, Assistant Set Design for Devil’s Disciple. Shaw Festival 2019: Assistant Set and Costume Design for Horse and His Boy, The Ladykillers, Victory, Holiday Inn. Design Work 2019: Costume Designer for Water Wonder (Carousel Players), Set and Costume Designer for Play House (Shaw Festival), Set and Costume Designer for The Subjection of Kezia and Poof! (Shaw Festival), Set and Costume Designer for Journey to the Greatest Gift (L’Arche Daybreak), Costume Designer for Good Morning, Viet Mom (Cahoots Theatre). Online: https://simgesuzer.journoportfolio.com/
Silvie Varone
Set Designer
Silvie Varone began her career as a prop builder in Toronto’s thriving theatre scene of the 1990s.
Working alongside leading creative talents, she contributed to large-scale musicals, opera, ballet,
and mainstream theatre productions for both Canadian and international clients. These
experiences sharpened her technical expertise and fuelled her passion for exploring diverse
techniques and materials—revealing endless possibilities in creative construction and design.
Driven to further explore this versatility, Silvie founded Silvie Varone Design and Build in 2013.
With a focus on sustainable woods and finishes, she began designing and crafting original,
functional furniture and custom wood pieces for the home.
Through this venture, Silvie met her current business partner, and together they co-founded Kis
& Varone, a female-led design and build company specializing in residential renovations. Today,
Silvie continues to maintain a strong connection to live entertainment through ongoing design
work and creative collaborations, seamlessly blending her theatrical roots with her passion for
residential construction.
Nic Vincent
Lighting Designer
Nic Vincent, Lighting Designer (He / Him) Nic is a New York and Toronto-based lighting designer. He designs for theatre, dance, opera, film, and live events. Recent design credits include All the Lonely Women (Rattlestick), The Barber of Seville (Sacramento Opera), JANE AGNER (Play Per View / New Ohio), Everybody, Constellations (Brown / Trinity Rep), The Indigo Room (Timothy White Eagle / La Mama), Fragments, Lists, & Lacunae (New York Live Arts), Hoppla! We’re Alive! (New School / La Mama), NIGHTGOWNS (Sasha Velour / The Documentary Group), El Huracán (Yale Repertory Theatre / The Sol Project). M.F.A: Design from the Yale School of Drama. nicvincent.com
Kathia Wittenborn
Performer
Originally from Montreal, Kathia is a Toronto based dance artist and movement teacher. Kathia has trained, created and performed throughout North America and Europe; collaborating with various artists and companies including, most recently, Marie Lambin Gagnon, Shannon Litzenberger, Sharon B. Moore, Sashar Zarif and JD Dance. Her work in Peter Chin’s Woven received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance.
