Oct 15-17, 2026 @ 10PM
General Admission: $25
The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance
304 Parliament Street
Co-presented with
Fall For Dance North
Night Shift
A late-night dance fest
Night Shift is an annual late-night fest that celebrates the many dance forms explored and practiced by Ontario-based artists.
Initiated by Citadel + Compagnie in 2019, and co-presented with Fall for Dance North, Night Shift is a unique platform that showcases innovative and thought-provoking dance by today’s dynamic movement makers.
Join us at The Citadel for an immersive experience like no other. Enjoy nine unique performances programmed by curator BaKari IfaSegun Lindsay.
This year, we are excited to welcome the following artists:
Teagan Ariss, Kimia Farokhzad, Jayden Gigliotti, K.H. Kanna, Kemora Manning, Yvonne Ng, Buyi Philip, Takako Segawa, Winterhawk
2026 Lineup
BaKari IfáSegun Lindsay is a multidisciplinary dance artist, choreographer, educator, and cultural innovator whose career spans over four decades. Rooted in African diasporic traditions and contemporary practice, he is the creator of AFeeree, The Physical Language, a codified movement system that reimagines how the body communicates, trains, and performs. His work has been presented across Canada and internationally, bridging stage, education, and community with a distinct voice that centres ritual, storytelling, and embodied knowledge.
A Dora Award and Chalmers Award nominee, Lindsay’s artistic practice extends beyond performance into costume design, curriculum development, and arts leadership. He has created and contributed to works for film, theatre, and concert dance, while also shaping the next generation of artists through teaching, mentorship, and institutional leadership.
Through AFeeree Projects, Lindsay continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary performance, cultivating spaces where artistry, culture, and healing intersect.
Curatorial Statement
I am not interested in containing dance within fixed definitions. What draws me is how the body holds knowledge, how it remembers, resists, and speaks beyond imposed structure. The works gathered here meet each other in that space: not as categories, but as distinct, embodied ways of knowing.
I don’t believe in hierarchy within this context. Voices at different stages of their journeys sit alongside one another because they need to. Each work stands in its specificity, rooted in lineage, shaped by lived experience, and unapologetic in its form.
I am interested in tension. In what happens when stillness meets velocity, when structure encounters disruption, when ritual sits beside rupture. I am not trying to resolve these differences. I want them present. I want them felt.
For me, this is about dance as language. Not performance as display, but movement as a way of knowing and communicating. What is being offered here is not a single vision, but a charged field of coexistence, where complexity is not reduced, and where the body is allowed to speak in its full truth.
