Justine A. Chambers is a dancer, choreographer and educator living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her movement based practice considers how choreography can be an empathic practice rooted in collaborative creation, close observation, and the body as a site of a cumulative embodied archive. Privileging what is felt over what is seen, she works with dances that are already there – the social choreographies present in the everyday. She is Max Tyler-Hite’s mother.

Francesca Chudnoff also known as Franz, is a Toronto based millennial, with a BFA in performance, and paying rent as a multidisciplinary artist. She is a dance maker, film maker, and photographer. Her work is in conversation with internet aesthetics, the instantaneous energy of communications technology and its inevitable intersection with performance. They are a queer 20 something, living in a land of Instagram captions and pop song tropes. Francesca recently completed a 3 year research residency at Dancemakers Centre for Creation. She has presented her dance work at Dancematters, PS We Are All Here, Flowchart, and Nuit Blanche Toronto. Their film work has been presented at F-O-R-M, ArtSpin, On Common Ground Festival, Rhubarb Festival, Long Winter Toronto and Paris, UNITY Charity Festival, Parks N Wreck, FFDN, and Nuit Blanche Toronto. You can find them at @franznfriends and @face_rider 


Aria Evans is a queer, Afro-Indigenous and settler award winning interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans dance; creation, performance and film. With a large-scale vision, collaboration is the departure point to their work created under their company POLITICAL MOVEMENT. Advocating for inclusion and the representation of diversity, Aria uses their artistic practice to question the ways we can coexist together. www.politicalmovement.ca

Kalainithan Kalaichelvan is an award-winning Tamil-Canadian writer/director who tells stories that focus on themes of identity and displacement. His short films have screened at the St. Louis International Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival and the Bermuda International Film Festival. His latest project is being made in collaboration with the Ontario Arts Council and South Asian artists around the world, with the goal of documenting the experiences and perspectives of endangered civilians during the Sri Lankan civil war.

Nancy Lee 李南屏 is a Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary media artist, curator, filmmaker, DJ and cultural producer. Their work stimulates and enlivens space, making a provocative statement about how inescapably interconnected we are with our surroundings. This notion of staging is a constant in Nancy’s work and underpins their projects, from their early work as a filmmaker, through their conception of live events, and into the realms of XR, new media performance and installation, where their art practices continue to coalesce and evolve. Nancy is a co-founder and co-producer of CURRENT Symposium, an intersectional and multidisciplinary initiative featuring programming for and by women, nonbinary artists and artists of colour. Currently, Nancy is a VR workshop instructor with the IM4 Media Lab at Emily Carr University and the board president of Love Intersections. As a Sundance Institute New Frontier Alumni, Nancy has been collaborating with Kiran Bhumber on a speculative sci-fi exhibition “UNION”, exploring 3D scanning, 3D printing, XR, and multi-channel sound and video installation.

Sabrina Naz Comănescu is a dynamic member of the Calgary Dance Community through her work as a performer, choreographer, dance instructor and filmmaker. As a performer, Comanescu has worked with Machel Montano, House of Dangerkat, The Bad Girls Club YYC, ILLFX Entertainment and is currently in her sixth year performing with the Decidedly Jazz Danceworks company in Calgary, Alberta. She is also the current major force behind The Diversity Performing Arts Club of Calgary that “celebrates cultural diversity while promoting inclusion and respect for all youth”. She has also created Casa De Naz (CDN) in 2012, a collective with a mission to “excite and educate art hubs across Canada about the thriving Caribbean community in Calgary and the arts of the Caribbean as a whole”.

Mouvement Perpétuel is an award-winning Montreal-based independent film, video, and new media production company specializing in arts programming. Co-directors Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer create impressionistic dance-media films, arts documentaries and multi-channel video installations, feature expansive choreographies and portraits of some of Canada/Quebec’s leading contemporary dancers and choreographers and from across cultures within the Americas, Europe and Asia. Viewers are invited into a deeply intimate tracing of the curvatures of rich human experience.

Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer met in 1986 dancing in the work of New York choreographer Charles Dennis. Subsequently a friendship developed and their professional talents merged once more ten years later when they embarked on the first sketch of what was later to become the video series Moments in Motion/Au fil du mouvement. They shared a Fellowship for the Dance/Media Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, developing new ideas, and producing work in the United States. Their return to Canada saw the creation of Mouvement Perpétuel in 2001.

Pam Tzeng (曾小桐) is a second-generation Taiwanese-Canadian choreographer, performer, arts worker and movement educator based in Moh’kíns’tsis also known as Calgary in Treaty 7 Territory. Led by her embodied curiosities, Pam gracefully traverses charged thematic territories of race and power in her work to reveal unseen truths. Known for crafting humourous, visceral and poignant performances, her solo and ensemble works have been presented across Canada and through the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

Pam’s heart and interdisciplinary practice is currently invested in: creating a new collection of works as Dancers’ Studio West Artist in Residence to premiere in Spring 2022; exploring music and film collaborations, and contributing to equity and anti-racism change in the arts through grassroots initiatives.

Pam is co-facilitator of DSW’s Talking Thinking Dancing Body Calgary and works with the Canadian Dance Assembly as an Alberta Regional Advisor.

As a multimedia artist, director, producer, editor, and cinematographer, Mark Valino is the full production package in one. He has over 15 years experience in the television/broadcast industry, working with major Canadian broadcast networks like CTV, CBC, and Canwest Global. His focus is to create or document stories, while providing a platform to showcase his community's artists. In May 2020 "Mr Jane and Finch" a short documentary that Valino had the honor of being Director of Photography for received the Donald Brittain Award from the Canadian Screen Awards for Best Social/Political Documentary. He has documented Toronto's rich and vibrant hip hop and dance cultures for over twenty years through video and photos including his work with Manifesto Community Projects. Valino continues to capture precious "Moments of Movement" travelling the globe exploring dance and movement through foreign and local spaces. Driven by his love for music, dance, and culture, Valino's visual style is dynamic and intuitive and continues to evolve.

Ying Wang is an independent filmmaker based in Richmond, British Columbia, a city with one of the highest new immigrant populations in Canada. As a migrant navigating between multiple cultures, Ying is fascinated by stories that reveal the geopolitical complexity of global migration. Her latest film The World is Bright tackles the topic of immigration and mental health through a tender family story. The film has won the Sea to Sky Award at the 38th Vancouver International Film Festival, the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker award at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival, and was nominated for the Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Editing at the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards.

While making documentary films, in 2007, Ying co-founded Cinevolution Media Arts Society (www.cinevolutionmedia.com) in Richmond. Under her 10-year leadership, Cinevolution grew into one of the most promising arts organizations in metro Vancouver.

Wild Mint Arts delivers workshops, performances, and classes with Indigenous performing artists locally and from around the world. We value and support the diversity of Indigenous performing arts, recognizing its inherent inter-disciplinary elements. Empowering Indigenous people of all ages, abilities, and genders, we strive to offer inclusive programming, respectful of everyone. Offering an opportunity for reconciliation, we serve the Indigenous community and our non-Indigenous community year-round. We strive to empower Indigenous students within systems of education by offering Indigenous-only workshops from pre-school to Grade 9. Performances and workshops serve professional, emerging and recreational artists. Performances and workshops serve businesses, schools, and communities. Offering engaging artistic programming for all members of a community regardless of identity builds stronger relationships.