Featured Contributors

Patricia Allison is a Toronto-based choreographer, movement director and performer. In 2018, she won the Dora Mavor Moore award for Best Director for an independent theatre piece she co-created with Jill Harper. Allison was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2017 and continues to create original live performance and dancefilms. She is an advocate for disability, inclusion and accessibility in the arts.

Ming-Bo Lam is a freelance dancer, choreographer, adjudicator and educator. In addition to teaching at the Underground Dance Centre in Toronto, she teaches for Dancing with Parkinson’s Canada (certified by Dance for PD) and is the co-founder of OAYSIS Studios. Select credits include the Much Music Video Awards, the Toronto Raptors Dance Pak, NBA All Star Weekend 2016 and The Umbrella Academy.

Ravyn Ariah Wngz is is an African, Bermudian, Mohawk, 2Spirit, Queer and transcendent individual. Wngz works to change all hierarchical mainstream arts and dance spaces by centring disability justice and advocating for representations of marginalized LGBTTIQQ2S communities. Wngz is a co-founder of ILL NANA/DiverseCity Dance Company and the artistic director of Outrageous Victorious Africans Collective (OVA).