Thursday Shift

Some of her notable performances include the 2015 Pan Am Games, Nuit Blanche, SummerWorks Festival, and international festivals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico, Alaska, and the Czech Republic. Candace has worked with Little Pear Garden Dance Company, Nova Dance, Anandam Dance Theatre, Creativiva Entertainment and more. She shares her experience as a mixed-Asian Canadian artist in hopes of inspiring other artists to explore their relationship to their culture through dance.

Carleen’s latest credentials include performing in Guillaume Côté’s Touch. Carleen dances for the Canadian Indigenous dance company, Red Sky Performance and recently joined the Toronto company ProArteDanza. She has performed at Fall for Dance North twice, once in Red Sky Performance’s piece Flow and once under Anne Plamondon in her piece Fiddle Embrace. 

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Vania’s latest credentials include working as the Assistant Choreographer to Siphesihle November’s new work On Solid Ground, which premiered alongside Elite Syncopations, and Skyward. Emerging in the Creative Industry, Vania has developed a reputation for being innovative, detail oriented and present strong leadership skills. During her time at TMU, Vania had the privilege of working with Peggy Baker, Anne Plamondon, Dylan Crossman (Cunningham trust) and Vicki St Denys. Sharing her heritage with African and English culture, Vania seeks to represent and advocate for black women in contemporary dance. 

It’s been over 20 years since flamenco became a part of her life and a part of herself. In 2016, she started managing Tablao Flamenco Toronto, a non-profit organization that produces a monthly live flamenco performance.