Steering Committee
The dance mapping study was originally conceived by the Canada Council for the Arts and initiated at a 2010 roundtable of arts funders convened by the Canadian Public Arts Funders. The study was shepherded through the development phase by staff from the Canada Council, the City of Vancouver, Cultural Services, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Other federal, provincial, territorial and municipal arts funders are also contributing to the study's research.
The study is being guided by a Steering Committee representing arts leaders and federal, provincial and municipal arts funders.
Committee members:
Ellen Busby, Committee Co-Chair
Program Officer, Dance Section, Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047, Ottawa, ON K1P 5V8
Email: ellen.busby@canadacouncil.ca
Tel: 613-566-4414 ext. 5506 Toll Free: 1-800- 263 5588 ext. 5506
Web: www.canadacouncil.ca 
Ellen Busby was lured into the arts early in life, working alongside her parents in community theatre since the age of six. She later launched her professional career as a theatre technician and stage manager, eventually moving into arts management. She has held management positions with dance companies, service organizations and funding agencies. For ten years she worked as a consultant and mentor specializing in strategic planning, organizational change, financial models and grant writing. Ellen worked at the Canada Council for the Arts from 1987 to 1994, as Finance Officer in the Dance Section. In January 2009, she returned to the Dance Section as Program Officer.
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Myles Warren, Committee Co-Chair
Dance and Awards, Ontario Arts Council
151 Bloor Street West, 5th floor, Toronto, ON M5S 1T6
Email: mwarren@arts.on.ca
Tel: 416-969-7422 Toll Free: 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7422
Web: www.arts.on.ca
Myles Warren is the Ontario Arts Council’s Dance and Awards Officer, appointed in 2002. Before joining the Ontario Arts Council, he worked as Executive Director of the Dance Umbrella of Ontario from 1992 to 2002 administering dance companies that included Menaka Thakkar Dance Company, Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Sampradaya Dance Creations, MOonhORsE dance theatre, Fujiwara Dance Inventions, among others; General Manager, Desrosiers Dance Theatre, and arts consultant. Myles Warren was the co-leader of Arts for Change, a capacity building initiative for dance in Toronto, Ontario.
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Kathy Allen
Program Consultant - Dance, Music & Theatre, Saskatchewan Arts Board
417 - 24th Street East, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 0K7
Email: Kathy@artsboard.sk.ca
Tel: 306-964-1166 Toll Free: 1-800-667-7526
Web: www.artsboard.sk.ca
 Kathy Allen has been the Program Consultant for Dance, Music and Theatre at the Saskatchewan Arts Board since 2004. Prior to that she worked as a freelance director and stage manager and was involved in many Canadian and World Theatre Premieres. A former artist in residence for the City of Saskatoon, she has toured Saskatchewan extensively as a workshop instructor in both the theatre and the visual arts.
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Marc Boivin
Chairperson, Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault; President, RQD
Email: marcrboivin@yahoo.com
photo: Michael
Slobodian
Dancer, improviser, teacher, and choreographer, Marc Boivin began his dance career at Le Groupe de la Place Royale in Ottawa, under the directorship of Peter Boneham. Five years later he joined Ginette Laurin and her newly formed company O Vertigo Danse. He began to work as a freelance artist in 1991. Many renowned choreographers such as Louise Bédard, Sylvain Émard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Tedd Robinson, Catherine Tardif and improvisers Andrew Harwood and Peter Bingham have since solicited his talent and skill as a dancer for their works. In 1999, Marc Boivin won the Jacqueline-Lemieux Prize, awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Affiliated with LADMMI, l’école de danse contemporaine since 1987, Boivin regularly guest teaches and choreographs in schools and professional organizations across Canada. He has been President of Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault since 2005 and of the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) since 2010.
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Douglas (Doug) Durand
Cultural Planner, Cultural Services, City of Vancouver
Woodward's Heritage Building, Suite 501, 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 1H4
Email: douglas.durand@vancouver.ca
Web: http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/arts-and-culture.aspx
Tel: 604-871-6007
Doug's arts administration career spans three decades in various capacities and art disciplines, but with a particular emphasis on dance. In 2000, he moved to London to work as a dance officer with Arts Council England. Upon returning to Canada in 2003, he was commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts to research and write Dancing Our Stories, a collection of first-person narratives documenting dance animation practice in Canada. Doug joined the City of Vancouver’s Cultural Services as a cultural planner in 2005, delivering a program of grants and awards in support of the city’s non-profit arts organizations.
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Judy Harquail
Ontario Presenting Network
Email: jharquail@gmail.com
Judy has over 25 years of experience working in the performing arts. Her previous accomplishments include directing and executing touring activity for some of Canada’s most highly respected dance and opera companies, developing and executing strategic marketing campaigns and working in collaboration with an extensive range of arts organizations and arts professionals across Canada, the United States, and throughout the world. Amongst the many projects she is currently working on, is as Program Manager for CCI – the Ontario Presenters Network where she is responsible for the Ontario Dances program, the biannual Ontario Dances Platform, the Fresh Start program and CCI’s block booking program. She also has extensive experience dealing with all levels of government funding agencies having worked on contract for the Canada Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage assisting in the launch of the Arts Presentation Canada Program in Ontario. Judy is the 2007 recipient of the National Arts Centre award for distinguished contribution to touring.
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Lyne Lanthier
Chargée de programmes, Direction de la musique et de la danse
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
79, boul. René-Lévesque Est, 3e étage, Québec, QC G1R 5N5
Tel: : 514 864 2006 Toll free: 1 800 608 3350
Email : lynelanthier@calq.gouv.qc.ca
Web : www.calq.gouv.qc.ca
Lyne Lanthier holds a Bachelor degree in Psychology from the University of Ottawa. She studied dance at Main Dance Place (Vancouver), Simon Fraser University, l’Université du Québec à Montréal and with Linda Rabin. After dancing with the Karen Jamieson Dance Company (KJDC), she transitioned to arts management, working as a publicist and tour coordinator for KJDC, for the Canada Dance Festival and later for Montréal Danse. She has been working as a dance program officer since 1993, first at the Canada Council Touring Office and, since 1997, at the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
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Caroline Lussier
Section Head, Dance, Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047, Ottawa, ON K1P 5V8
Tel: 613-566-4414 ext. 5500 Toll Free: 1-800- 263 5588 ext. 5500
Email: caroline.lussier@canadacouncil.ca
Web: www.canadacouncil.ca
Dance artists and the dance milieu have always been a key determinant in Caroline’s career and her community involvement. Caroline joined La La La Human Steps as coordinative assistant to the artistic direction in 1990 and went on to become assistant director at Diagramme gestion culturelle, program officer for dance and multidisciplinary programs at the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, administrative director of the Compagnie Marie Chouinard, and associate director-general for Espace Libre. She became Administrative Director with the Festival TransAmériques in 2007 and in September 2011 took over as Section Head of Dance at the Canada Council.
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Geraldine Manossa
Program Officer, Dance Section, Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047, Ottawa, ON K1P 5V8
Tel: 613-566-4414 ext. 5501 Toll Free: 1-800- 263 5588 ext. 5501
Email: geraldine.manossa@canadacouncil.ca
Web: www.canadacouncil.ca
 Geraldine Manossa is a member of the Bigstone Cree Nation in Northern Alberta. She completed a Master of Arts degree from the University of Lethbridge, with a specialization in Cree Indigenous knowledge and performance. She has been writing about Indigenous performance processes and showcasing her work at various festivals across Canada including, Shared Habitat Festival (Toronto), Stream of New Dance Festival (Saskatchewan), Talking Stick Festival (Vancouver) and Dance Explosions (Calgary). Her performance methodologies have been highlighted in a video documentary titled Living Bodies created by University of Lethbridge professor, Lisa Doolittle. Her most recent publications are found in the Aboriginal Drama and Theatre Volume One – Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, and “Uncovering Spirit,” based on a site specific performance, with choreographer Bill Coleman and playwright, Floyd Favel (Great Plains Research Centre Press). Geraldine currently works as a program officer for the Canada Council for the Arts.
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Harry Paterson
Director of Production/Touring, Alberta Ballet
141 18th Ave SW, Calgary Alberta T2S 0B8
Tel: 403 245 4222 ext 524
Email: harryp@albertaballet.com
Web: www.albertaballet.com
Born in London, England, Harry began his career as a dancer/actor on stage as well as on screen with companies including BBC TV, BBC Radio, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Le Ballet du Rhin, L’ORTF in Paris, and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. Harry has been the Director of Production for Alberta Ballet since 1990. During this time he has overseen the production and budgets of hundreds of ballets and has established various touring opportunities worldwide for the Company. Harry came to Alberta Ballet from Montreal where he spent several years in senior production positions at various organizations such as Société de la Place des Arts, National Theatre School, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, and the National Film Board of Canada. Harry has also been stage manager for several productions at the Delacorte Theater in New York, Stratford Festival and National Arts Centre. Harry’s professional career has taken him around the world to Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America.
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Soraya Peerbaye
Dance consultant and writer
Toronto, ON
 Soraya Peerbaye is a dance consultant and writer living in Toronto. She served as the Toronto Arts Council dance officer from 2004 to 2012. Prior to that she was the Equity Coordinator at the Canada Council for the Arts. She has also served as an equity consultant for the Department of Canadian Heritage's Arts Training Fund (formerly the National Arts Training Contribution Program). Soraya holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and is a poet whose first collection, Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award.
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Katrina Rice
Program Officer, Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council
P.O. Box 98, 1 Springdale Street, St. John's, NL, A1C 5H5
Tel: 709-726-2212 Toll Free: 1-866-726-2212
Email: krice@nfld.net
Web: www.nlac.nf.ca
Katrina has been with the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council (NLAC) for eleven years. She came to the NLAC with a background in visual arts, education, arts management and technology. She holds a BFAED with a concentration in textiles, graphic design, and arts education from the Nova Scotia Collage of Art and Design. Much of her spare time is spent researching arts administration practice, seeing NL arts performance and practice, volunteering for arts projects (and developing her personal art practice when time allows). She has a passion for being involved with projects and work where the goal is the understanding and betterment of artists in all arts disciplines. At the NLAC Katrina administers the Professional Project Grants and Professional Festivals Programs as well as maintaining the computer network of the NLAC.
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Barbara Richman
Email: brichman1@me.com
 Based in Nova Scotia, Barbara is currently a consultant in arts and heritage management, and Executive Director of Strategic Arts Management, a not-for-profit, support service organization for the performing arts. Over the past 30 years she has worked with independent artists, small and large organizations, and funding agencies, focusing on planning, operations, governance, and sustainable development. She has also taught arts management at Dalhousie University and held executive positions with Halifax Dance, Jest In Time Theatre, Debut Atlantic and Symphony Nova Scotia. Barbara served on the Boards of Dance In Canada Association, the Canadian Dance Assembly and the NS Masterworks Arts Awards Foundation, as well as the steering committee for the Nova Scotia Arts Council, and the NS Status of the Artist review committee.
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Joyce Rosario
Executive Director, New Works
#303 - 3102 Main St., Vancouver BC V5T 3G7
Tel. office. 604.893.8807
fax. 604.893.8870
mobile. 604.809.4140
Email: joyce@newworks.ca
Web: www.newworks.ca
Joyce Rosario is Executive Director of New Works, a Vancouver-based organization that provides management support to artists and projects in the performing arts, and produces several public performance series featuring dance from a wide variety of cultural traditions. For three years, Joyce was Executive Director for Made in BC - Dance on Tour, a regional dance presenter network dedicated to increasing audience reach and touring opportunities for contemporary dance in British Columbia. From 2002 to 2007, she worked with battery opera as company manager, and in 2006 as administrator for the Dancing on the Edge Festival. She served a one-year term on the BC Arts Council board in 1998 through a provincial ‘Youth on Boards’ initiative. She continues to serve on various boards and committees, including CanDance, the Emerging Arts Professional Network, and a new professional development initiative at CAPACOA, The Succession Plan. Joyce is a graduate of UBC Theatre Production/Design Program.
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Yvon ‘Crazy Smooth’ Soglo
Founder and Director, BBoyizm Dance Company
Ottawa-Gatineau
Email: crazysmooth@gmail.com
Web: www.bboyizm.ca
 Dancer, choreographer, teacher, speaker, event organizer, Yvon (B-boy Crazy Smooth) has been dancing for over 10 years during which he has come to be one of Canada’s top street dancers. Like many of the world’s street dancers, Smooth is an autodidact, although his passion and respect for the art form have led him to study with some of New York’s top street dancers including Ken Swift, Brian Green, Shannon (Which Way Shah), Mr. Wiggles and Breaks Kru, to name a few. Smooth’s professional experience has gone from working as an instru ctor for acrobats from Cirque du Soleil to performing at the Nancy Jazz Festival in France and winning the Most Valuable B-boy award at the 2006 Kings of NY Competition. Smooth’s ongoing involvement in dance and the dance community resulted in him being a keynote speaker at the 2007 United Nations Youth Conference in Edmonton. His decision to dedicate his life to dance has enriched the community around him and transformed him into a humbled ambassador for the arts. Smooth now takes his never-ending mission to elevate and carry on the tradition of street dance culture to the world of performing arts. “Dance to express, not to impress.”
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Michael Trent
Artistic Director, Dancemakers
55 Mill Street, Building 74, Studio 306, Toronto, Ontario M5A 3C4
Tel: 416-367-1800 ext. 31| Fax: 416-367-1870
Email: michael@dancemakers.org
Web: www.dancemakers.org
 Michael Trent is the Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of Toronto’s Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation, one of Canada’s leading contemporary dance companies and a centre for research and development in new dance practices. The Company's creations, presenting and professional development projects are contemporary, cross-disciplinary and collaborative in nature. Trent has garnered national recognition as a choreographer, dancer and teacher and has had the pleasure of working in these various roles alongside such notable collaborators as Louise Bédard, Peter Boneham, Sylvain Émard, k.g. Guttman, Ame Henderson, Christopher House, Sasha Ivanochko, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Doug Varone and Jacob Zimmer.
photo: David Hou
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Anne Valois
Director, Arts Discipline Division, Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047, Ottawa, ON K1P 5V8
Tel: 613-566-4414 Toll Free: 1-800- 263 5588
Email: anne.valois@canadacouncil.ca
Web: www.canadcouncil.ca
Anne Valois was Dance and Theatre Officer for the Touring Office from 1986 until she was appointed as Head of the Touring Office in 1990 and of the Strategic Initiatives Unit in 1991. Before joining the Council, she worked as the Executive Director of the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse, Administrative Director of the London Dance Umbrella and Le Groupe de la Place Royale, booking agent and tour manager of La La La Human Steps, and as a consultant to Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Ontario Arts Council.
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