Ellen Furey is a dance artist in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. Since 2012, she’s worked on collaborative and interdisciplinary processes that insist on a mess of subjectivities, often through explicit co-authorship. Her creations use virtuosity, spectacle and nonsense to create narrative trajectories that include elements of song, bad theatre, scored movement, sacred approximation, disgust, play and solemnity and have been presented in Europe, Canada, in the USA and the UK. She also studies death doula-ship, spiritual accompaniment and is a PhD student at Queen’s University. Ellen is originally from Unama’ki-Cape Breton, Mi’kmaq territory.
ellenfurey.ca
@internetparticipation

Hanako Hoshimi-Caines (she/they) is a multiform experimental dance artist working in the expanded field of choreography, curation, dramaturgy, sculpture, community practice and writing. Her works unfold across a range of formats—from stage to gallery to local community spaces—using delight, kiddom and the spirit of error. Her work has been shown in Canada, the USA, Sweden and the UK. Between 2020 and 2023, she was artistic co-curator at the CCOV. Her interdisciplinary tilt led Hanako to complete a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honours in Western Philosophy from Concordia University, as well as training in contemplative body rooted practices such as reiki. Hanako is born and based in Tiotiá:ke/Montréal.
hanakohoshimicaines.com
@hanakohc