Justine A. Chambers
Justine A. Chambers (she/her) is a dance artist and educator living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̍əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations in Vancouver, Canada. Her practice is a collaboration with her Black matrilineal heritage, and extends from this continuum and its entanglements with Western contemporary dance and visual arts practices. At the centre of her practice is a question often posed by her grandmother: “You feel me?” This question is both a declaration of one’s personal orientation, and an invitation to reorient and include what is held in our flesh. Chambers meets this question in her work by attending to individual and collective embodied archives, social choreographies of the everyday, and choreography/dance as otherwise ways of being in relation. Chambers’ work has been hosted at galleries, festivals and theatres nationally and internationally. She holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, is currently Assistant Professor in Dance at the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University and Associate Artist to The Dance Centre. Chambers is August Tyler-Hite’s mother.
Laurie Young
Laurie Young (she/her) is a Berlin-based Canadian dance artist whose practice is informed increasingly by the politics of the diasporic body, its archival liveliness and its choreography. She was named Visiting Dance Artist of the National Arts Centre and a multiple recipient of the Volkswagen Foundation’s “Art and Science in Motion” fellowship. Her work has been presented at the Sophiensaele, Martin Gropius Bau, The Australian Museum, National Arts Centre, The Field Museum, Agora de la danse amongst others. She is co-initiator of FreelanceDanceEnsemble Berlin and a board member of Zeitgenössischer Tanz Berlin.
Victoria Cheong
Victoria Cheong (she/her) aka New Chance is a Toronto-based composer, producer and vocalist. As an active collaborator in Toronto’s avant music and contemporary dance scenes, as well as a practicing astrologer, Cheong brings a wide array of influences to her artistic work. Recent collaborations and commissions include composing for Aisha Sasha John’s, Diana Ross Dream, producing an EP with Picastro’s Liz Hysen and a collaboration with reggae legend Willi Williams. She is currently working with Jenn Goodwin on her multidisciplinary choreographic work, The Changeover. She has also composed for film and video (recently Seth Scriver’s animated feature, Endless Cookie) and her voice and songwriting have appeared on records by Lee Paradise, L CON, Lido Pimienta, Isla Craig, Chandra, Jennifer Castle and more. New Chance’s most recent release is the full-length concept album, A Rock Unsteady (2025, We Are Time).
Emese Csornai
Emese Csornai (she/her) is a Berlin-based Hungarian artist. Her interests in fine arts led her to lighting design, which two principles keep informing each other in her work with a long practice as a lighting designer, lately engaging again in installative projects. Her recent lighting work is in collaboration towards the stage works of Justine A. Chambers, Laurie Young, Bilawa Respati, Meg Stuart, Tale Dolven, Padmini Chettur, and others. Csornai finds re-discussing well discussed topics from newer angles can create a rupture in rigid perspectives, and can introduce novelty. She built her practice of dynamic lighting in part from translating filmic and graphic gestures to stage, partly as a result of her background in instant composition. She has a strong interest is the ongoing examination of colors and the physiology of their perception. Csornai was part of a lighting designer collective formed around Buda, Kortrijk, and participates in the 4 year research project Reflecting Light (2020-25) in the framework of KASK, Gent. She was co-facilitating Happynest mentorship project of the Superamas.
Sarah Doucet
Sarah Doucet is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between costume design, rehearsal direction, choreography, jewellery design and performance. Rooted in the body, her work explores how material, gesture, identity, and transformation intersect with costume design, functioning not simply as adornment, but as an active and expressive extension of the performer. Sarah’s decade-long collaboration with Animals of Distinction and Dana Gingras (MTL) shaped her practice as a performer, collaborator, rehearsal director and costume designer. Her work has since extended across contemporary dance, theatre and interdisciplinary performance, including collaborations with Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD-Cal), Toronto Dance Theatre, Propeller Dance (Ottawa), SummerWorks, and numerous independent Canadian and international artists. In 2022, Sarah began training in intimacy coordination, bringing its principles of consent, communication and embodied awareness into her creative practice. Across disciplines her work is grounded in a sensitivity to the body and the spaces it occupies, inviting material and movement to become vehicles for connection, character, and storytelling.
Neda Sanai
Neda Sanai, also known as DJ Nedalot, is an artist working at the intersection of sound, music, and spatial design, with over 15 years of experience in audio and sound production. Their practice explores collective approaches to artistic production and draws on concepts from queer theory to examine social norms, musical conventions, and the use of space.
A central aspect of Sanai’s work is the relationship between sound and architecture. Through sound compositions and spatial interventions, they develop site-specific works that engage with the characteristics of the environments in which they are presented.
Sanai’s work has been presented internationally at institutions, exhibitions, and festivals, including the 11th Berlin Biennale, ImpulseTanz, Hebbel am Ufer, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, NGBK, Riga Biennial, Volksbühne Berlin, Sophiensæle, documenta 14’s public programme in Athens, Schinkel Pavillon, the Venice Biennale, Southbank Centre in London, and Cullberg Theatre in Sweden.
Their practice brings together sound, space, and critical approaches to established artistic and social conventions, exploring how these elements can shape perception and create alternative ways of experiencing music and contemporary art.
