Catherine graduated from the Toronto Metropolitan University dance program, earning a BFA with Honours, and continued her training for two years in DJD's Professional Training Program(PTP). Catherine has been a dancer with the DJD professional company since 2007. With DJD, she has performed in more than 30 original productions and created choreography for 5 of these productions. She was the Artistic Director of DJD's dancer-choreographed shows, Velocity in 2017 and Borderland in 2015. Upcoming projects include producing a mixed-bill contemporary dance production, We are voices of different generations, featuring choreography by Catherine, Davida Monk, Helen Husak and Nicole Charlton Goodbrand. In 2023, Catherine completed her first short film, Everybody's Heading for the Exit featuring established artist Davida Monk and musician Jon McCaslin. This film was created with Calgary filmmakers Eric Pauls and Michael Janke. In 2021, Catherine premiered Don't Wake the Lions, a new full-evening work featuring live music by Tom Richards with Votive Dance (Halifax). Catherine is the Co-Artistic Director of the Bodied Indivisible ensemble with Shayne Johnson; in 2020, they presented their debut production, including four works, Polyhedron, Podia, Guarded, and Starbored. Catherine was a founding Dancers' Studio West(DSW) Dance Action Group member. With DSW, Catherine pursued choreography using original musical compositions and live musical performances. She presented form, act, cease, ensue in collaboration with musician Jeremy Gignoux as part of the Dance Action Lab in July 2017 and Tethered, musical composition by Rubim de Toledo in 2016. Catherine completed five seasons as a choreographer with Alberta Dance Theatre for Young People(ADT) and has 25 years of teaching experience, working with students of all ages in various disciplines. This season, Catherine continues to mentor dancers training in DJD's recreational school, PTP program and Youth Training Program. 

Kaitlyn is a movement researcher, performer, choreographer, and dance educator who received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Dance Performance Degree from Toronto Metropolitan University, and more recently completed her Master of Fine Arts at York University for Dance, Choreography & Collaboration. She was awarded the Lipson Family Endowment Award for the most promising choreographer. Throughout her professional experience she has performed and trained under choreographers such as Vicki St Denys, Louis Laberge-Cote, Robert Glumbek, Ryan Lee, Hanna Keil, Matjash Mrozewski, Colleen Snell, and Apolonia Velasquez in a diverse range of techniques and movement styles.

Taking part in an ongoing investigation with the moving body in the theatre and alternative performance spaces, Kaitlyn’s current research involves discovering boundaries between physicalized theatre and contemporary movement styles. Seibold has created over 30 original choreographic works for live performance and film. Her most recent works include: Meeting at R9, featured in Dance Ontario’s Festival, Toronto ON; and Escapists, presented at Springworks, Toronto ON.

Originally from Calgary, Alberta Beth is a graduate of the Arts Umbrella Dance Diploma Program in Vancouver, BC. While an active part of the Vancouver dance scene, Beth had the opportunity to work with and perform works by various renowned artists including Crystal Pite, Emily Molnar, and Michael Schumacher, amongst others. Beth has performed internationally with Ballet BC, locally with Inverso Productions, Calgary Opera, and as a company dancer and choreographer with Corps Bara Dance Theatre. Currently a student of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, Beth is incredibly excited to collaborate with Ballet Bodies YYC for a third season.

Christianne approaches movement and dance making from a place of musicality, physicality, awareness, and humility. Having spent many years interpreting dance works made by James Kudelka (Citadel + Compagnie, Toronto) she has developed an affinity for fast, visceral, and large scale movement. Currently, both her choreographic and pedagogical work is underpinned by something she calls performative tools of working. Partially influenced by her time dancing for choreographers like Christopher House (Toronto Dance Theatre), Valerie Calam (Company Vice Versa) and Ame Henderson (Toronto Dance Theatre), she refers to ‘working’ as the process in which the mind and body are working to answer a series of internal questions, and respond to tasks, which become visible to the outside through various degrees of change in the body and awareness for the performance space. Christianne holds a BFA from Ryerson University and an MA from York University. She was a company member with Toronto Dance Theatre from 2014-2020, and with Citadel + Compagnie (Toronto) from 2006-2014, and 2017-2020. Independently, her work has been presented in Beijing, Toronto, Edmonton, and Calgary. Christianne is a sessional instructor at the University of Calgary, teaching technique, composition, and performance. Outside of the university, she has worked as the rehearsal assistant for Project InTandem (Calgary), and also frequently teaches for YYC Contemporary (Meghann Michalsky).

I am an interdisciplinary artist working with dance, live performance, and installation. I studied classical ballet at the Alberta Ballet School, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and La Danse School of Dance before pursuing a career in contemporary performance. I have worked with choreographers both locally and abroad, and diversified my technique by training in the U.S, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Austria and England. I became interested in creating my own work and completed post-graduate choreographic studies in Kassel, Germany with a focus on practice-based research methodologies. In addition to performing in and creating dance pieces, I also collaborate with artists from other disciplines to create works that are presented in both theatre and site-specific venues. In these classes, I plan to share a variety of physical practices that come from contemporary and improvisational teachings that have been generously offered to me over the years. I am eager to work with the dedicated dancers of Ballet Bodies YYC, and encourage the community to drop in and join us!

Kyra Newton is a contemporary dance artist and somatic healing practitioner. She is invigorated by mindful movement and the possibilities that exist within contemporary dance and somatics to find inner healing, resolution, pleasure, and peace. As a facilitator of dance, she aims to bring people together to have a shared experience of being present in the body. As a choreographer, she is inspired by the connection that exists between the body, heart, mind, and earth and how dance can impact both the mover and audience members in very transformative ways. Kyra believes that art is a portal for change and that when we create and consume art in a conscious/mindful way, we can shift our communities, city and beyond in magnificently positive ways. In this current time, Kyra is inspired to create choreography that explores one’s relationship to felt sensations and how they can be embodied through abstract movement to tell a story about the human experience.

Originally from Richmond, British Columbia, Tara studied dance at The Richmond Academy of Dance. She danced as a professional dancer for Alberta Ballet, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, and Ballet BC. Tara is currently the Director of Contemporary Dance at the H/W School of Ballet.

Her story:

“I am playful. I am light-hearted. I am focused, driven, and analytical. I never settle for mediocrity, especially in dance.

From a very young age, I knew I wanted to be a professional ballet dancer. Ballet was my education. it gave me a maturity that I otherwise never would have developed until later in my life, and that maturity allowed me to face and overcome many challenges.

Dance was also an escape for me. The studio was a place where I was always comfortable, and where I could go to let the worries of the world melt away and be the best version of myself. dance has also given me the opportunity to connect with audiences around the world and touch them by doing something that I love.”

Daniela Erewa was born and raised in the beautiful city of Monterrey, Mexico. She participated in various national and international classical competitions, such as “Youth American Grand Prix,” obtaining prestigious awards and scholarships to international schools, such as Orlando Ballet School, Kirov School of Dance and Rock School of Dance.

Daniela has training in all styles such as Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary and Musical Theater. Daniela moved to Vancouver in the spring of 2019 and was able to train with Coastal City Ballet and take classes at Harbour Dance Centre with renowned choreographers and instructors. She has danced and done the background in projects for Netflix, NBC and Disney, working with producer Kenny Ortega, Mandy Moore, and choreographers like Paul Becker, Jill Meyers and Louis Hardsky.

She moved to Calgary in the summer of 2021 and continues her training, learning and creating as a dancer, teacher and choreographer in diverse studios around the city.