Friday, October 16

Kimia Farokhzad is a multidisciplinary artist and musician working across performance, sound, and visual media, exploring the body as a site of tension, memory, and resistance. With over eight years of experience in performance, she began her practice in Tehran through theatre, performing in productions including Self-Accusation and Antigone, as well as participating in experimental and international theatre festivals. Over time, her practice shifted toward movement-based and interdisciplinary work, combining voice, music, and physical performance in experimental and underground contexts.

Since relocating to Toronto in 2024, she has expanded her practice through contemporary performance, including training and performing in Edge Raw (2026), a project led by Jaber Ramezan. Experimentation and artistic freedom are at the core of her practice. She is drawn to risk, improvisation, and working beyond disciplinary boundaries, using vulnerability as a central artistic tool to create work that is raw, embodied, and emotionally exposed.

Singapore-born, Toronto-based choreographer Yvonne Ng | 黄碧琬 creates physically nuanced works that invite audiences into acts of perception, where meaning is not fixed, but continually shaped through attention, relation, and time. As Artistic Director of tiger princess dance projects, she has developed a distinct choreographic voice grounded in improvisation, Open Source Forms, and a deep sensitivity to the relational dynamics between performers, space, and audience. Her works often unfold as layered, non-linear compositions that invite multiple readings, positioning audiences as active participants in meaning-making. Ng’s choreography has been presented across Canada and internationally and has received multiple Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations. Recent works, including All that is between and Wéi (成为) explore the delicate dynamics of being together, how presence, attentiveness, and relationship continually shape what unfolds between us.

Buyi Philip is a force of nature. A Toronto-based dancer, choreographer, and movement innovator with over 15 years of experience fusing Hip-Hop, African Traditional, and Experimental movement into an electrifying artistic language that is entirely his own. His work is bold, culturally rich, and deeply human — bridging tradition and innovation through a movement practice that is as disciplined as it is fearless. As a performer, choreographer, and facilitator, Buyi has graced festival stages, led dance residencies, and created community movement experiences that resonate far beyond the studio. As founder of Inside the Rhythm, he continues to redefine what dance can express, connect, and transform. Buyi doesn’t just dance — he occupies the moment, shifts energy, and pulls you somewhere you didn’t expect to go.