Citadel Dance Program

She has worked and performed in Bahrain, Canada and India and is a certified facilitator in Therapeutic Dance in Education from CMTAI, India.

A newcomer artist based in Toronto, Nidhi is a Dance Arts Institute alumna and emerging movement artist who has worked with renowned choreographers including Nova Bhattacharya, Michael Caldwell, Neena Jayarajan,and Mayumi Lashbrook. As an arts manager, she is currently the Associate Company Manager at The National Ballet of Canada. Her movement practice is rooted in Indian aesthetics and Nidhi aims to develop her own artistic vocabulary while integrating her management skills to promote accessibility, equity, and inclusivity in the arts.

Her dancing has taken her all over North America including BC, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and New York City.

Highly sought after for her teaching and choreography, she has had the opportunity to teach at the Toronto Rhythm Initiative’s youth intensive, Performing Arts BC: Provincial Festival, Dance Masters of Canada, MOVE Dance Convention, and as Assistant Choreographer for the North American Tour of “EVIL DEAD the Musical”, just to name a few. 

Performing onstage, in front of an audience, has always been a passion for Cori. Her performing credits include: the 2014 Toronto Body Percussion Festival, the 2014 Eastern Canadian Tap Conference, Allison Toffan and Josh Grossman’s Big Band Tap Revue with the Toronto Jazz Orchestra, The Whole Shebang: Taken By Night, the Dance Ontario production: Dance Weekend ’16, Ryan Foley’s Escapade, the 2018 Dusk Dances Festival, Fall For Dance North’s: Perspective In Rhythm, and a featured artist for the 2019 Vegetarian Food Festival. She was also a featured dancer for the commissioned work of Johnathan Morin in the 2017 Toronto International Tap Dance Festival, produced by Toffan Rhythm Projects.  

But her greatest career highlight has been founding her tap dance company, Rhythm & Sound in 2015, alongside Johnathan Morin. The company has annual performances in Toronto, has been presented in Edmonton at the Feats Festival of Dance in 2017, and has been featured in several festival performances in the GTA. 

She has worked as a composer/performer for Expect Theatre’s Beats + Intentions, dance:made in canada – inTO focus, Battery Dance Festival, SummerWorks Performance Festival, SQx Dance, and Dust and Soul Dance Projects. As a choreographer, she has presented her work at the Festival de Danse Contemporaine de Sherbrooke and has worked as a rehearsal director at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre for a piece choreographed by Pulga Muchochoma. 

Christina is the founder of Litt Dance Collective, which aims to create holistic works by melding musical and choreographic research. She is known for her positivity and zest for life and strives to focus on mind and body wellness in all her practices while exploring the connectivity of music, movement, and language and the impact they have on one another.