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Call for Participating Artists:
Indigenous Collective Practice Project
due December 10, 2025 at 11:59pm ET
Toronto Dance Love-In invites Indigenous artists with a dedicated and established movement practice to apply to Collective Practice Project (CPP). This will be the second group of Indigenous artists to come together for CPP. A curated group of 4-6 artists will gather to participate both in person and remotely, with working periods occurring from January through to March 2026. Artists will engage in group discussions and embodied research without a defined end result. Individuals will share methods of creation, processes, values, and desires, expanding community connections.
Collective Practice Project originated with the idea of sharing individual practices in a collective setting while receiving support from a dedicated facilitator(s). CPP represents the need for urgent, thematic residencies inviting local, national, and international artists to share space in a paid opportunity. This iteration of CPP will be open to Indigenous movement artists.
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Over the summer and into the fall, Lara Kramer has been facilitating Collective Practice Project with artists:
ᑮᓯᑯᕽ ᑳᐯᑖᑯᓯᐟ Johnny Morin
Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier
Marcus Merasty
Nimikii Couchie
Samantha Sutherland -
This fall season, Juan Jaramillo & Cai Glover have been co-facilitating Collective Practice Project with artists:
Courage Bacchus
Mahsa Tajzibi
Teagan Ariss
Robert Haughton
Love-In is a not-for-profit artist-run dance organization based in Tkaronto.
We host an array of programming including in-person and virtual workshops, performances, facilitated talks, collective practices, & our annual Summer Love-In Festival.
read our values + mission statement
Toronto Dance Love-In is thankful to gather on the traditional Indigenous territory of Tkaronto. This is the ancestral and unceded land of the Wyandot people, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg and Mississaugas of the Credit. We recognize them and any other Nations acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded as the past, present and future caretakers of this Land. We are grateful to the Elders and Story-keepers who have been telling the story of this Land for generations. At Love-In, we are actively learning how to honour and upkeep the protocols of this territory and live in alignment with the treaties of this region. With these words we honour the Land and its caretakers. We commit to challenging the ongoing injustices and the impact of colonialism by providing spaces that operate from an anti-oppressive, social justice perspective.
