2025

Toronto Dance Love-In invited Indigenous, d/Deaf, Hard of Hearing & CODA artists with a dedicated and established movement practice as part of our Collective Practice Project (CPP). A curated group of 12 artists gathered to participate in group discussions and embodied research without a defined end result. They shared methods of creation, processes, values, and desires while expanding community connections.

CPP Artists:

Nimikii Couchie, Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier, Marcus Merasty, Samantha Sutherland, ᑮᓯᑯᕽ ᑳᐯᑖᑯᓯᐟ / Johnny Morin with mentorship by Lara Kramer.

Courage Bacchus, Mahsa Tahzibi, Teagan Ariss, Robert Haughton, Gaitrie Persaud, Jaideep Goray, Joao Paulo, Ebony Gooden with facilitation by Cai Glover & Juan Jaramillo, and mentorship by Antoine Hunter.

March
→ Love Sessions with Lorin Sookool

May
→ Practice Lab awe is not precious awe is everywhere with Camille Huang
→ heartT.O.heart Decolonial Solidarity Partnership vol. 1 with Dancemakers

May
→ Love Sessions UNARMOURING with Clara Furey

July/August
→ Summer Love-In sessions with Janice Jo Lee, Lara Kramer, Juan Jaramillo, Chimerik 似不像, Raoul Wilke, Johanna Bergfelt, Christopher House, Bobby Pocket Horner adn Jasmine Liaw
→ PS: we are all here featuring Arin Aronyk, ᑮᓯᑯᕽ ᑳᐯᑖᑯᓯᐟ / Johnny Morin, Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier& Barbara Simms, Marcus Merasty, Samantha Sutherland

Open Studio: July to November… This program facilitates a space to gather and attend to what is emergent, to be social without an agenda, and to be inspired by others around you! Come with nothing but yourself, as you are! Share, be bold, nap, rest, wiggle and shake in the company of others.

November
→ Practice Lab Thatness and Thereness with Shion Skye Carter, Mayumi Lashbrook, Masumi Rodriguez and Elena Kirby



Video still from SLI Archivist Arin Aron