| Choreogaphers, dancers & voice: Ana-Francisca de la Mora Ana-Francisca is a choreographer and an architect from Mexico City. She also completed a Master�s degree in dance at York University with a scholarship award from the FONCA (National Arts Funds of Mexico) where she explored the links between space, place and dance. Ana-Francisca has choreographed and performed theatre and site-specifi c projects for the past eight years and has also been a guest teacher at various Art Centres and Universities in Mexico and Toronto. Her projects focus on how meanings are created through the experience of dwelling. She works as a senior designer on a exhibit and museum design fi rm, while continuing her independent work as a performer, set designer and choreographer with DanceScapes Collective and now The Second Floor Collective. They have featured their work independently and in major festivals in Toronto such as Dusk Dances 2000, fFida 1999 �2004 among others and internationally at the National Arts Centre of Mexico in 2006. She is a Dance Advisor and Site Designer for various Summer Festivals at Harbourfront. In 2002 she coordinated Shared Habitat�s 2 Biology and Dance symposium and co-produced this interdisciplinary festival in 2003. Alorani Martin Alorani began her movement training studying modern rhythmic gymnastics. She spent fi ve years dancing with the Canadian Children�s Dance Theatre, working with such choreographers as Deborah Lundmark, David Earle and Holly Small. Alorani both choreographed and danced with the McGill Contemporary Dance Ensemble for four years in Montreal, as well as having guest appearances with the Concordia Dance Company and York University Choreographic Workshops. She studied Aikido and Budoh while teaching in Osaka, Japan from 1996-1998. In 1999, Alorani co-founded the dance company The Second Floor Collective in 1999. She is a grade three teacher for the Toronto District School Board, where she continues to use her love for the outdoors, as well as her background in creative movement in her teaching. Inge Viia Tamm Inge�s initial movement training was in rhythmic gymnastics. Upon moving to Montreal, she became involved in the �McGill Contemporary Dance Ensemble� for four years, as a dancer, choreographer, and coordinator. Work with the DanceScapes collective (later The Second Floor Collective) has led her to co-choreograph and perform �And Now I Will Count to Twelve� as part of fFIDA (1999), and �A DanceScape�, at Dusk Dances in Trinity-Bellwoods (2000). Inge participated in The Second Floor Collective�s production of �Inhabiting the Inbetween� (fFIDA, 2001), Re-inhabiting (Gala Event fFIDA 2003) and Trrr3 (fFIDA 2004) among others. Inge completed her Masters in Science at the University of Toronto and is now working as a molecular biology specialist. |
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