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Making music with my feet. Tap Dancer 💜
Wiggly contemporary dance too
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I know a month out is sometimes too early to be putting out gig posters but I can’t help it. I love hosting the shed and am so excited to play a house set with this incredibly talented band. Hope many can make it out, gonna try my best to make this one special!

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You never know what the night's going to bring. Artists from all walks of life walk through the door at @dromtaberna to express and share their love of music.

Here is a snippet of @rumidude15 tapping.
A great display of athleticism, of musicality, but most importantly listening! Watch how Rumi plays off of Alfred on the congas, then taps along with the band before exiting as he hears the saxophone lick ✨️.

Gorgeous jamming! You can join in too:
Every Tuesday night at @dromtaberna
From 9:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.

See you there!

Jammers, you know what to do, see or hear anyone you know in this video? Tag em down below!

🎸@sylusfarkasmartins
🥁@coreyryanflyin

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KIDS NEXT DOOR VIBES ✨AMAZING PICS TAKEN BY: @the.nicoden

Thanks @tylerqyan and this amazing group of dancers for a short magical week this summer!! Tyler asked us to perform his piece BENCHMARK, which we learned and performed in just ONE WEEK ❤️‍🔥

A blend of street + contemporary styles ~ it was so fun exchanging, creating, and bringing this piece together under Tyler’s leadership 🫡✨

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🪑 Where contemporary meets street dance!

Some documentation of process for my recent set “BENCHMARK” presented for STUDIO 6 @thestudionorthto. I find it thrilling to see the thoughts / decision-making / influences of choreographers… so here I am sharing my own!

Kept it digestible in the graphics, but fleshed out more ideas in the captions if you wanna read and converse ➡️

#dance #choreography #process
#contemporarydance #streetdance

I’ve been training in punking/whacking/waacking for 8 years now, but only recently have had the chance to develop and work in contemporary dance lately… and I’m just obsessed.

I also feel like dancers trained in these spaces have such great malleability and creativity when it comes to following prompts/concepts for freestyle! Not to mention the openness to exchange and connection with one another… I felt like it’d be such a good mesh.

Honestly, I was doing the MOST with this initial ideation. I soon realized that approaching the piece like this meant that I’d have to establish these two worlds as opposing one another — which would’ve brought an air of… adversity? Competition? Negativity? 
And I wouldn’t want that to be the takeaway. So I’d then have to resolve the conflict! And with a max runtime of 3 minutes, that just seemed infeasible. 🧍‍♂️

So, when mapping out the piece, I decided to focus on a sense of playfulness and curiosity rather than rigid boundaries. (And, after watching us all dance together at the first rehearsal, it was clear that my instincts were correct! We are all just lovers of dance.)

(I honestly asked so many people, but a few were interested but unavailable, a few were doing too many other projects at the time, and some I didn’t even get around to asking since I felt like the timeline was getting too close.   …to more iterations though? 👁️👄👁️)

Originally, we were supposed to have 3 contemporary dancers vs. 3 street dancers. But, our individual schedules and space availability unfortunately could not accommodate one of the dancers (that I really really really wanted to dance with!!!) — so we moved forward with a lopsided amount.   I could’ve replaced them but I figured time was tighter and it might

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🤩Meet the Volunteers behind The Garage 2026 🤩

Is it 2026, 2016, 2010? We don’t know, but this year we’re throwing it back to celebrate 13 years of The Garage!

This year Alli Carry @alli_carry, Rumi Jeraj @rumidude15 and Miah Lewis @lewismiah are joined by Garage Alumni Maya Santos O’Keefe @mayasokeefe and Jaelyn Jones @jaelyndjones

Stay tuned for this year’s choreographers announcement 👀

Graphics by @alli_carry
Cover image of @mackenziegrantham from “Listen, this will be fun” by @teaganariss

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Beyond grateful to have been apart of this creative process with these amazing and talented humans! I’ve never been so comfortable being out of my comfort zone- aka without my tap shoes on 😂 and that’s thanks to all of you!
Huge thank you to @rumidude15 for creating a safe space that welcomes our strengths while encouraging and supporting our vulnerabilities! Truly an honour ❤️🙏🏻

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World Harp Congress 2026 Recap | Part 2
More precious times with precious people ✨

@worldharpcongress.official @harpsociety

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🪑 BENCHMARK
performed at Studio 6 @thestudionorthto

A playful collision of street dancers and contemporary dancers on a humble park bench. Celebrating these two worlds and the features that I believe define them both: curiosity, freedom, rigor, and openness of exchange. It’s all just dance!

Choreography by Tyler Quincy Yan @tylerqyan
In collaboration with:
Bibin George @bibz_g7
Rumi Jeraj @rumidude15
Shona Kiyama @shonakiyama
& Tiffany Leung @deepfriedtiff

🎥 Filmed by Kate McDonald @katyspacebird
🎧 Music by Sourmash & Spektre @spektrelive

I’ve been gushing about this process and these people for this whole past week (because that’s when we started the piece…) but I can’t get over how it felt making this one.

The intention of this set went from an overwrought commentary on dance accessibility to… pure joy and playfulness. LOL. After 20 mins of cyphering during our first rehearsal, it was clear we were just whimsical characters who love to dance. And we dove right into that instead! It felt right.

And the double entendre of it all! Studio 6 has been an informal 🔆benchmark🔆 of my own dance journey. My work from the past two editions were fuelled by trying to prove something (to the world, then to myself). But for this one, knowing I couldn’t go bigger than last year, why not strip it all back to both my roots and the movement that currently inspires me most? Beyond fulfilling.

Grateful for this cast for letting me try new things with the most open minds and offering so much to the table (or bench). They made this piece. They ARE this piece. I merely provided a skeleton and the movement became the substance, meat, potatoes, lifeblood of the world.

Truly just scratching the surface of this benchberg, and it was a beautiful dive. 🧡

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A ✂️ of “BENCHMARK”
from last night at Studio 6 @thestudionorthto

made street dancers do choreo
made contemp dancers cypher
and we honestly just played around
this process and cast were everything and more 🥺🔆
@bibz_g7 @rumidude15 @shonakiyama @deepfriedtiff

full video on my page now! :)

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That’s a wrap on week 3! This week we made commitments, lots of noise, learned about devised composition processes and had some good old fashioned fun with picture books and vocal effects. Thank you to our guest workshoppers Connor Crone, Joseph Glaser, Amanda Smith, and Camp NSO senior staff Noa Bonen for opening our hearts and minds.

There’s still time to be an NSO camper! Join us next week at the Canadian Music Centre (20 St. Joseph Street) as the NSO embarks on a quest to compose a score for Cullen McFater’s film, Human Nature. Feel free to come observe, hang out, draw, write, dance, or perform alongside us next week.

Monday, July 27th
11am-1pm: Screening of Human Nature
2pm-4:30pm: Film scoring afternoon session

Tuesday, July 28th
10am-1pm: Film scoring morning session
2pm-4:30pm: Film scoring afternoon session

Wednesday, July 29th
10am-1pm: Film scoring morning session
2pm-4:30pm: Film scoring afternoon session

Thursday, July 30th
10am-1pm: Film scoring morning session
2pm-4:30pm: Film scoring afternoon session

Friday, July 31st
10am-1pm: Film scoring morning session

📸 by Noa Bonen and Zack Goldstein

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🔆 “BENCHMARK”
Premiering Sun Jul 26 at Studio 6 @thestudionorthto

A collision of worlds on a park bench—and the discoveries that emerge from the dust, dirt, and dance. Inspired by the two realms that I’ve been lucky to inhabit lately: contemporary dance and street dance. What will we learn from the exchange?

Choreographed in collaboration with:
Bibin George @bibz_g7
Rumi Jeraj @rumidude15
Shona Kiyama @shonakiyama
Tiffany Leung @deepfriedtiff

📸: @the.nicoden
🎨: @tylerqyan

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Announcing our house band for this Sunday!!
Hope to see you all there!

🦴: @jackmarshall_brass
🎺: @enoch.lodu
🦴: @ngforget
👞: @rumidude15
🎹: #lylefleras
🎻: @tomokibelrose
🥁: #mannieoh

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