Trilogy of BEing (quartet)

EUNOIA, a multimedia work based on Christian Bök’s Griffin Poetry Prize winning book, premiered at World Stage in Toronto and was nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, named one of NOW’s Top 5 Dance Shows of 2014 and began national touring in 2015. Her six solo dance concerts garnered praise across Canada and toured to festivals in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. Her mentors include Tokyo-based Butoh master, Natsu Nakajima and Montréal’s Elizabeth Langley. She is the Artistic Director of Fujiwara Dance Inventions, a co-founder of CanAsian Dance and a recipient of the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Muriel Sherrin Award for international achievement in dance. www.fujiwaradance.com

Some other works include Sur Grande (2019) for  La Compañia de Danza Contemporanea de Acapulco, Mexico; De aquí, de allá (2019) for Mexico City’s Barro Rojo Arte Escénico and #rupturapasaje2/#passagebreak2 (2019) for Andanza Compañia Puertorriqueña de Danza Contemporánea, Puerto Rico.

Walker is also a senior choreographer with the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica, and program director for the New Waves Dance & Performance Institute in Trinidad & Tobago.

Since then he’s danced with various companies and performed works by noted artists such as; Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Garth Fagan, Stefanie Battan Bland, Meredith Rainey, Zane Booker and Abdel Salaam. His teaching experience includes 3 years in the Professional Division at The Alvin Ailey School Of Dance and Adjunct Professorships at Drexel University & Florida International University. Mr.Brown has been a featured performer at the Viva Danca Festival, Bahia, Brazil, Florida Dance Festival and the International Blacks In Dance Festival in St. Louis and Philadelphia. Currently he is Directing a play written by playright Karl O’Brian Williams, entitled “The Black That I am.” NYC.

Mr. Ormsby was featured in more than 17 of the company’s choreographed works many of which toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He has also presented a paper on Dance in the Diaspora at the 1st Biannual Conference, Visualizing / Performing Africa at Ohio University and has conducted for three years an intensive dance workshop in Grenada as well as a master class in Vancouver, British Columbia and substitute teacher at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, ON and served as a Juror on the Ontario Arts Council in the Dance Section. In addition to producing a production Love ‘n Movement, he has self published a photography book “Dance Through Life” and is the Dance Writer for Expose Entertainment Magazine, written for the Dance Current Magazine and was recently commissioned to write a paper for the Canada Dance Festival 2009. In Toronto, Mr. Ormsby has performed with Ballet Creole and was also the Associate Artistic Director of Caribbean Folk Performers. He has worked with Canboulay Dance Theatre, Up from the Roots Entertainment, Menaka Thakur, Caribbean Dance Theatre and Dance Caribe Performing Company. Kevin has served as choreographer at Scarborough Caribbean Youth Dance Ensemble from 1994-1998 and co-founded the Lester B.Pearson Collegiate Dance Troupe. In April 2008, Mr. Ormsby launched his company, KASHEDANCE. 

Ben is continuing to experiment and has done work with KasheDance, Wind In The Leaves Collective, Little Pear Garden and teaches dance as a recreational activity to kids. Ben loves variety and enjoys learning about different cultures and languages in his free time. Not only a dancer, Ben is also a singer, enthusiastic entertainer, model and YouTuber.

They are intrigued by ideologies and research centered in; Transculturalism, Interculturalism, and Ethnography. They explore intersectionality, ( with specificity to BIPOC and LGBTQ2+ communities) and what it means to extend through the vastness of human cultures and conditions, to question notions of allegiance, difference, and existence, and in turn pondering what it means to be cradled in the wonderment of the pieces that make each of us whole and yet forever unfinished. They are forever curious about ways to nuance and transcend rigid ideologies around cultural cross pollination and the kaleidoscope that is identity. Kevin has been a guest lecturer at; The Richmond Art Gallery, and Simon Fraser University. Kevin’s work has been presented and witnessed in Vancouver, and the surrounding area, nationally (Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton), and Internationally ( New York City, Los Angeles, Manila, London (UK), Oaxaca, and Tokyo). They were the 2022 recipient of the Crystal Dance Prize. Also, they are currently pursuing a Masters degree through Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.