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CONRAD ALEXANDROWICZ is a Toronto-based choreographer, writer, dancer, and the Artistic Director of Wild Excursions Performance, the company he founded in 1995 as a vehicle for his works of theatrical dance.
CAROL ANDERSON, a Toronto choreographer, teacher and dance writer, was a dancer for twenty years, and is a former Artistic Director and founding member of Dancemakers.
MEGAN ANDREWS is a Toronto-based dance artist and writer, publisher/editor of The Dance Current and a co-host of the local dance radio show, Evi-Dance.
BILLYANN BALAY joined the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) in 1991 as Associate Dance Officer and became Dance Officer in 1993. Prior to joining the OAC, she had a wide-ranging professional career in dance as a performer, teacher, director and as a journalist and writer. For ten unforgettable years she was Principal of the School of the Toronto Dance Theatre.
NOVA BHATTACHARYA, an independent dance artist, has studied Bharatanatyam with Menaka Thakkar and Hari Krishnan in Toronto, creates her own work, writes about dance and provides consulting services to the arts community.
AMY BOWRING is the Research Co-ordinator at Dance Collection Danse, a freelance writer and teacher of dance history, and originator of the Canadian Dance History Society.
NANCY CARDWELL, a professional ballet dancer turned flamenco artist, is a Toronto-based dancer, teacher and arts administrator.
BRIDGET CAUTHERY, a choreographer, teacher and freelance writer trained in modern dance and ballet, completed her Masters in Dance at York University in 1998, and intends to pursue her Ph.D. in the fall of 2000.
KEITH COLE, a graduate of York University's Faculty of Fine Arts Theatre Programme, is a performer, producer and a freelance publicist for dance, theatre, and film artists. As a publicist he has co-ordinated over 500 media campaigns -- from big budget to no budget. He lives and works in Toronto.
ROCHELLE HUM has worked as a choreographer, a dancer, a production coordinator for Candid Stammer Theatre and an assistant producer with da da kamera, Sound Image Theatre, and the Six Stages Festival. She is currently focusing her career on graphic design and has created work for Sarah Chase, Susanna Hood, and Spring Rites.
BONNIE KIM is a Toronto-based dance artist and writer.
JANE MARSLAND was General Manager of the Danny Grossman Dance Company from 1983-1999 and was awarded the first M. Joan Chalmers Award for Arts Administration for outstanding contribution to leadership in the arts in 1995. An articulate arts advocate for years, she has served on a wide range of boards, advisory groups and committee. Currently Co-Founder and Co-Leader of ARTS 4 Change -- a program designed to create positive change for and by Toronto arts professionals -- and a free-lance arts consultant.
NELLO MCDANIEL, along with George Thorn, co-directs ARTS Action Research (AAR), an arts management consulting group based in New York City. From 1997 to 1999 AAR designed and co-directed the Arts 4 Change program for more than twenty mid-sized Toronto arts organizations.
SELMA ODOM teaches dance history and writing in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
PETER OLIPHANT, FCA, partner, Oliphant + White, was a member of many cultural and social service boards. Now graying, he is a lover of the dance.
ERIC PARKER was originally trained as a hand-lettering artist in the sixties at the prestigious lettering studio of typographer, Cooper & Beatty With the revolution in typography and design launched by the personal computer, Eric went on to start and run his own successful graphic design business. Today, Eric Parker and Associates Limited works both in print and the new digital media for many clients ranging from the corporate giants of the pharmaceutical and food industries to the quirky and challenging world of the independent dance and music artist.
ANNE PATTERSON, Administrative Director of the Danny Grossman Dance Company, has been involved with the Toronto arts community for the past eight years as an administrator, a volunteer, a guest speaker and an audience member. She represents Canadian dance organizations on the Board of Trustees of Dance/USA.
SARA PORTER, currently on the faculty of York University's Dance Department, works as an independent choreographer, performer, teacher and writer in Canada and the U.K.
MEREDITH POTTER is Administrator - Artists' Services of the Dance Umbrella of Ontario, has a degree in Arts Management from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, and has worked for Australia's Red Shed Theatre Company, Adelaide Festival of Arts and Patch Theatre Company.
VIVINE SCARLETT is Service Co-ordinator of the Dance Umbrella of Ontario, a dance administrator, instructor and independent performing artist. Her goals and aspirations are rooted in the love of dance.
JOYSANNE SIDIMUS, former New York City Ballet member, and Principal Dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and the Pennsylvania Ballet, is currently the Balanchine Repetiteur for the National Ballet of Canada. She is the Founder/Executive Director of the Dancer Transition Resource Centre, and in addition, serves as the Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Artists' Health Centre Foundation.
HOLLY SMALL, choreographer, performer and writer, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, where she currently teaches modern dance, composition and music.
MARLENE STIRRETT MATSON has played various roles in the Ontario dance community for the past twenty-two years, as teacher, choreographer, dancer, assistant artistic director, arts consultant in the provincial government, and currently Managing Director of For Dance Tour Management. Marlene has a BFA (Dance) from York University, and is pursuing her MA at York University, researching the impact of dance training on body image and self-esteem.
HEIDI STRAUSS is the co-founder of the Four Chambers dance project, and an independent dancer with a keen interest in writing and dance history.
REBECCA TODD is a choreographer and dance writer living in Toronto.
CYLLA VON TIEDEMANN is one of Canada's leading performing arts photographers, working regularly in dance, theatre, music and film. She is the principal photographer of the National Ballet of Canada, the Toronto Dance Theatre, Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage and numerous modern Dance and Theatre Companies. She has worked on many films with Rhombus Media Inc. Her dance work is the subject of a book entitled The Dance Photographs of Cylla von Tiedemann, published by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
MARY JANE WARNER, currently Director of the Graduate Programme in Dance at York University, has taught courses and published extensively in the area of Canadian dance history.
MYLES WARREN is Executive Director of the Dance Umbrella of Ontario (1992 - present) and a theatre/dance researcher. His work includes study of England's National Dance Agencies, Cuban theatre from the perspective of theatre anthropology, residencies with the International School of Theatre Anthropology (Denmark) and Teatro Escambray (Cuba). He is Co-Founder and Co-Leader of ARTS 4 Change; a programme designed to create positive change for and by Toronto arts professionals.
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