Feeling Her Way: Dancer Response

Andrea Nann/Dreamwalker (she/her) dances to reach across distance and to experience herself and others in celebration of possibility, plurality, imagination, originality, and belonging. She is a contemporary dance artist, deep listener, founding artist of Dreamwalker Dance Company, and founder/co-creator of Conscious Bodies, an embodied community practice. Andrea is graduate of York University’s Department of Fine Arts and has contributed to the creation of new works by over 70 dance and theatre creators from across Turtle Island. She danced with Danny Grossman Dance Company for 15 years and has been recognized for outstanding choreography, performance, contributions to the performing arts sector and for her work in community actioning. For Andrea, dance and embodiment can shift attitudes and ways of being, tuning us into what makes each of us distinct, to what we share, and ultimately how we can live together in wonderment and peace.

Jennifer Dahl is a contemporary dance/theatre artist, post-rehabilitation movement specialist and fascial movement facilitator and educator.

She began her dance/movement training in Saskatchewan and continued in Montreal and New York City (Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre) before graduating from The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre in 1994. Since then, Jennifer has performed across Canada and Europe for over 25 years. She has worked/collaborated with a multitude of established and emerging creators in both dance and theatre including: Volcano Theatre (The 4 Horseman Project), Susanna Fournier (4 Sisters-Empire Trilogy) Citadel and Co. (Grasslands, Hymn to The Universe featuring the Sun Ra Arkestra), playwright Jordan Tannahill (Declarations), and The Dietrich Group (This is a Costume Drama, FIELDWORK) in pieces created for the stage, film, and site specific locations.

Jennifer teaches specialized conditioning and movement related courses throughout North America, Europe and Asia. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Toronto.

Nyda Kwasowsky is a multi-disciplinary artist and emerging choreographer of Indo-Caribbean, British and Ukrainian ancestry. She orients towards abolitionist approaches rooted in experimentation, improvisation and community. Liberatory practices motivate her creative senses beyond representation and strive for practices that are transformative and embodied, without erasing her identity both present, past and future.

Her work centers around grief, hybridity and longing in racialized diasporic experience. Studied in somatics and trauma informed practices, a practitioner in TCM cupping and Auricular Acupuncture and training in Harm Reduction, Restorative Justice, Polyvagal Certified, craftworks, Earthwork and studying as a Birth Doula. Her most recent explorations look at the intersections of cultural materiality and the moving dancing performing body.

She has worked with a versatile range of dance companies and projects for over 10 years. Presenting her solo work locally, nationally and internationally and attending a multitude of residencies throughout her artistic career in continuing to connect and develop through exchange.