Facilitators

Harmanie Rose is a performance artist, choreographer, and facilitator dedicated to uplifting disabled, MAD, and marginalized artists. Harmanie utilizes her lived experience with Spina Bifida to inform a practice centred on inclusive movement and authentic representation.

Rianne Svelnis is a queer dance artist and settler of European descent living on stolen + occupied Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) territories. Rianne dances to attend to the moment, to access pleasure and to co-create community bonds.

Sierra Megas is an artist, arts worker and settler of Chinese, English, and Eastern European ancestry, living on traditional and stolen Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory. Sierra began dancing by attending community dance classes in 2018.

Andrea Cownden is a dance artist of European descent living on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Since completing training at Modus Operandi in 2018, her dancing has been shaped by the training she has received from ...

danielle wensley is an artist and settler of Acadian, Macedonian and English ancestry based on stolen + occupied Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) territories, colonially known as Vancouver.

Cheyenne Dawn Seary is a mother and an Indigenous artist of the Mi'gmaq Nation. Born and raised on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tslei-Waututh peoples, she has aspired since her youth to create movement, dance and sing with diverse communities.

Janice is a dual citizen of Canada and New Zealand and has also lived in Germany, Greenland, and Las Vegas. She is a life-long learner, educator, and world traveller. She holds a BA (Psychology), a British Columbia Teacher’s Certificate, and a MA (Education) from Simon Fraser University. 

Kevin “Shazam” Li is a bi-cultural Hong Kong Canadian street dance/ contemporary dance artist/choreographer/teacher based in so-called Vancouver on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ Nations.