Dance Arts Institute

Congratulations to the Dance Arts Graduating Class of 2026. 🎓🎉💐

It’s hard to believe how much has unfolded over this past year. You’ve each met it with strength, care, and a real commitment to growing, both individually and together. Watching that evolution has been something special, and we feel lucky to have been part of it.

As you carry on your path, carry that same curiosity and drive with you. Continue to show up with creativity, integrity, passion, and determination; it will open more doors than you can imagine. Wishing you all the best in everything that comes next.

On behalf of the Dance Arts faculty and staff, congratulations - we are all so immensely proud of you. 😭💕

Introducing our newest Dance Arts Alumni:
Surej Surrendra
Janique Devine .dancer
Joel Lawrence
Rohee Uberoi

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🌟Faculty Announcement: Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan 🌟

Dance Arts is excited to have Shalon teaching Contemporary Dance Contexts & Theories: Performance, Politics, & Aesthetics to our second year cohort. With a rigorous and thoughtful approach, they are guiding students through critical frameworks, while encouraging deeper reflection, articulation, and engagement with their evolving practices.

Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan is an independent curator, educator, and performance art scholar with a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies. Her work engages somatics, contemporary art, and performance theory, with a focus on embodied practices and critical inquiry. She currently leads Curating the Village, a pilot project supported by Balancing Act Canada’s Level Up! initiative.
Her writing has appeared in Performance Matters, Theatre Research in Canada, C Magazine, Comparative Media Arts Journal, Peripheral Review, and Canadian Theatre Review. A core member of The Toronto Performance Art Collective (TPAC) and a collaborator with Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices, she has curated projects with FADO Performance Art Centre, the Blackwood Gallery, Vtape, and Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology. Her research and practices have been presented internationally

🌟Spotlight on a Dance Arts Graduate🌟

Introducing our next graduate, Janique Devine. Janique shared with us some of their cherished memories at Dance Arts and what’s next for them. 🪩🎉

Janique’s final performance at Landings which is opening THIS WEEK! You do not want to miss this!

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