Ariel Brink
(Community Advisory Council, DJ, Door)

Ariel Brink dances improvisationally three times a week, and has been an enthusiast - dancing and taking classes and workshops - for more than ten years. He improvises music for dancers, has taught beginner classes in Contact Dance, and has deejayed more than 40 ecstatic dances. He is also a songwriter and musician; his eclectic folk-pop band The Dull-Eyed Llamas just released their first CD, If You Wanna Know.

Lynne Catt
(Door)

Lynne has been a movement and music enthusiast
since the time she could rock in front of sound speakers, climb to reach volume knobs and sit long enough to watch Aikido classes. She has been involved in all kinds of body arts including gymnastics, dance, drumming, martial arts and massage. Lynne has fell in Love with the Move upon discovering it in 2007 and is delighted to be a part of serving the Move Collective Community.

Stephanie Gris
(Door)

Stephanie has been dancing at the Move since 2007. She loves the community of joyful dancers and the freedom to explore self expression through movement in a welcoming, spiritually-grounded space.

Elisa Hollenberg
(Community Advisory Council, Door)

Elisa has been dancing at the Move since 2004. Her love of movement goes back to ballet and jazz lessons up to 4 times a week between the ages of 7 and 17. Abandoning ballet at 17, she turned to expressive improvisational forms of dance and South African gumboot dancing. Moving to Toronto in 2001, Elisa feels so grateful to have found dance here and the Move community.

Nan Keyser
(Co-founder, DJ, Door)

Nan Keyser is a healing arts facilitator and a psychotherapist who has been at The Move since it's birth. Nan loves to share her passion of global grooves and sacred dance and music with the community. Since the Move started, Nan has become a mother, and she has been an organizer of The Family Dance Jam. Nan treasures the unique body-centered space the Move offers to come home to body, mind, and soul through movement.

www.torontopsychotherapyandcounselling.com

Layah Jane
(Co-founder, Community Advisory Council, DJ, Door)

Delighting in dance since childhood, Layah has a background in Modern, Ballet, Eurythmy, 5 Rhythms™, Soul Motion, and Continuum Movement. TheMove is home for Layah’s movement meditation practice/trance dance addiction, and she is honoured to help offer other dancers sacred space to experience music and motion as medicine! Informed, inspired and nourished by nature, ritual, Waldorf education, and Live food, off the dance floor Layah is an award-winning Folk/Soul songstress, and Homeopathic practitioner. www.layahjane.com

Valerie Moysey
(Community Advisory Council, DJ, Door)

Valerie loves to dance and delights in the transformative power of collective creative expression. Dance is Valerie's "church", her "temple". It's in community movement that she most easily connects with her wholeness. While living in Hawaii she co-founded Hell Ya!, a bi-weekly dance jam. She believes that our greatest gift comes from aligning ourselves: mind, body, and spirit. In this light, Valerie assists in palliative care offering workshops, sound healing and bodywork sessions.

PeN!
(DJ, Door)

PeN! is a multi-talented artist that hails from Scarborough. He followed his heart and his feet in 2006 which led him to street performing, contact improvisation, performing at Nuit Blanche, swing, opening for the Canadian debut of the fusion band "Dub the Magic Dragon", hip-hop, the 5 Rhythms™ and sweet, sweet musik. He is an avid student who uses the arts to explore the human spirit and our connection.

Julia Ray
(DJ)

As a dream worker, yoga teacher, body therapist...I am fascinated with human potential...which led me to create Tribal Dance Community, a collective movement exploratorium incorporating sound, theatre, art and music. Those four years were like a university degree in experiential human potential and gave birth to other passions such as DJ'ing or rather creating sound journeys for dancers. Every song tells a story. As dancers, we have infinite possibilities...

Robbie
(Door)

Robbie lives to create and dance freely through the world, with mindfulness,
harmony, beauty and rhythm. He shares a love of voice, playing music, art,
dance, community and relational improvisation. He maintains a regular
practice of meditation, healing arts, deep magic, energy divination,
storytelling and expressive movement. Ten years ago he rediscovered his
childhood passion for movement and dance, and is in awe of its power to
heal.

Erica Ross
(Co-founder, DJ)

Erica Ross is a dancer & artist who has been in the arts for over 30 years. She loves facilitating workshops and groups; following her passion to support people in the realization of their magnificence. Erica’s work is informed by her love of dance, community and the earth. She is co-founder and director of Dance Our Way Home, and co-founder and DJ of The Move Dance Collective. Contact Erica at(416)538-8408 erica@danceourwayhome.com www.danceourwayhome.com

Photo: Devi Photography

Twyla
(Door)

Twyla dances to find truth, express herself, connect with others, move through energies, be present and experience joy. Having overcome a fear that kept her from dancing freely most of her life, dance is now the main focus and love of her life. She is the founder of the community outreach component of Dance Our Way Home, a dance project that offers empowerment, healing and community building to groups of marginalised women.
www.danceourwayhome.com/community