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Hailing from Québec City, Laberge-Côté danced with the Toronto Dance Theatre company for 8 seasons, under the artistic direction of Christopher House. As a freelance artist, he performed works by Peggy Baker, Serge Bennathan, Peter Chin, Robert Glumbeck, Danny Grossman, Sasha Ivanochko, and Michael Trent, amongst others. He also spent two years in Germany, performing as a soloist dancer at the Ballett Nationaltheater Mannheim in the works of Artistic Director Kevin OʼDay.

Laberge-Côté's work has garnered him 3 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for Outstanding Performance, and was named “Torontoʼs Dance Most Valuable Player” by NOW Magazine in 2006. His award-winning choreographies have been in Canada and Europe.

Laberge-Côté teaches regularly at GMD and In Studio.

In her homeland, Bergfeldt danced for the Swedish Östgöta Baletten as well as Norrdans and the Barents Dance Ensemble. Later establishing herself in Toronto, she worked and performed with the Toronto Dance Theatre, Kaeja’d’dance, Santee Smith, Kathleen Rea, Pro Arte Danza, Darcey Callison, Louis Laberge Côté, Kate Alton, Holly Small, Chimera Project, Robert Glumbek and William Yong.

Bergfeldt is a highly-sought contemporary teacher, and can be found at GMD, The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Dance Teq and In Studio.

Tracy has danced with Montreal's Sylvain Émard Danse and has appeared in over a dozen choreographers' work, including Michael Trent's, Holly Small's and Heidi Strauss'. He has choreographed over 25 works of his own, and is co-artistic director of Four Chambers dance projects.

He is a faculty member of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre and Dance-Teq, and has taught master classes across Canada, the US and Europe. Tracy is also a practicing neurological physiotherapist.

Montréal-born Desrosier was a member of the National Ballet of Canada for a season before making a name for himself as an independent artist. He has worked with Felix Blaska, Hugo Romeo, Ballet Y’s, Dancemakers, Toronto Dance Theatre and Lindsay Kemp, only to name a few. Other Canadian artists he has collaborated with include Leonard Cohen, Toller Cranston and Bruce Cockburn.

Desrosier has a reputation for being one of our most imaginative and avant garde choreographers. For twenty years, he helmed the Desrosier Dance Theatre in Toronto. His most famous work, Blue Snake, was commissioned by the NBoC. It premiered at the Met in NYC, won the Jean A. Chalmers Award for Choreography and was eventually featured in a film, The Company. He was also commissioned to create a full-length work for the Calgary Winter Olympics.

Shaw has performed with Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Ze'eva Cohen and Cherylyn Lavagnino in New York, and with Darcey Callison, Gerry Trentham, Paula Thomson, Randy Glynn and Prism Dance Theatre in Canada.

Shaw is a specialist of the Limon technique. She has been teaching for over twenty years at dance and theatre training centres.

She teaches regularly at Dance Teq.

Burpee has performed for Dancemakers, Le Groupe Dance Lab, Ruth Cansfield Dance, Lesandra Dodson, Sasha Ivanochko, and Tedd Robinson, while also performing in her own work. She has received the K.M. Hunter Artist Award and multiple Dora Mavor Moore Awards. She was Resident Artist at the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre for a year.

Burpee teaches at the CCDT company, Dancemakers, GMD, and professional training programs across Canada.

Kim has over twenty-five years of experience as a professional dancer. She performed with the Randy Glynn Dance Project, Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers, Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, Marie-Josée Chartier, Linda C. Smith, Nightwood Theatre, Peter Chin and Claudia Moore. She has a solid reputation as a contemporary dance teacher, rehearsal director, and outside eye. Eye Weekly named her one of Toronto’s “Top 5 Dancers”, and her work has earned her multiple Dora Awards nominations.

She was the Rehearsal and Associate Director of Dancemakers for nine years. She acted as juror for all three levels of Arts Councils in addition to the Dora, Gemini and Toronto Arts Foundation Awards. She served on the Steering Committee for the On the Move dance conference, and on the Board of Directors for the Actors’ Fund of Canada.

Kim teaches regularly at Metro Movement and GMD, in Toronto, in addition to various workshops and intensives.