Helen Jones, a long-time, greatly valued member of our core faculty, recently decided to withdraw from teaching, at least for a while, and we miss her knowledgeable and authoritative insights into the Graham technique. Her experience as a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company gave her a deep understanding of the technique, which she […]
Colin Frotten is our new Communications & Engagement Manager, and has also joined the faculty as our music teacher. Originally from Nova Scotia, Colin is a pianist, tenor, vocal coach, and arts administrator with over four years of arts management experience. After graduating with his Bachelor of Music from Mount Allison University in 2014, he made the move […]
In this issue we celebrate our gifted core faculty member and Resident Choreographer Julia Sasso, who had a very active summer, performing, mentoring, teaching, and rehearsing for more performances. In June, she was thrilled to appear with Danny Grossman in his “swan song” celebratory performance, Labour of Love (Its Innate Proclivities and Myriad Variations), […]
Pulga Muchochoma, one of our stellar alumni, has been performing with Toronto Dance Theatre since he graduated from the School in 2009. Currently on tour in Western Canada with the company, Pulga will be dancing in TDT’s much anticipated Glass Fields program at the Fleck Dance Theatre, March 20-24. Later in the year, we […]
Our beloved “Ballet Bob”, otherwise known as Robert McCollum, has an illustrious background which may be unknown to many of his students and colleagues, so we caught up with him after the holiday break, and asked him to fill us in on some of his own dance history, including his long association with the […]
Jasmyn Fyffe, who is creating a new work for our second year dancers, is a performer and choreographer, and the director of Jasmyn Fyffe Dance. She started dancing at age six, training in African-Caribbean dance and ballet. Then in high school she focused more on soccer, track and field, and basketball. But when she […]