Dance Immersion

🚨 DEALINE FAST APPROACHING! 🚨
Friendly reminder that applications for the NEXT GEN Youth Presentation close this Monday, June 15 at 11:59 PM (ET). Don’t miss your chance to apply!

📣THIS IS A CANADA WIDE CALL

dance Immersion is looking for Black-led youth dance groups, studios, schools, and programs (ages 10–21) from across Canada to be part of the NEXT GEN Youth Presentation at the inaugural Immersion Festival this November 2026 at the Betty Oliphant Theatre, Toronto.

Participants have the opportunity to:
✨ Present their strongest pieces
✨ Promote your studio + programs to a new audience
✨ Connect with some of Canada’s renowned Black dance artists
✨ Receive a $1,000 honorarium
✨ And more!

💢Application deadline June 15, 11:59 PM
🔗Apply now via the link in our bio or visit https://danceimmersion.ca/calls/

🚨 DEALINE FAST APPROACHING! 🚨

Friendly reminder that applications for the NEXT GEN Youth Presentation close this Monday, June 15 at 11:59 PM (ET). Don’t miss your chance to apply!

dance Immersion is looking for Black-led youth dance groups, studios, schools, and programs (ages 10–21) from across Canada to be part of the NEXT GEN Youth Presentation at the inaugural Immersion Festival this November 2026 at the Betty Oliphant Theatre, Toronto.

📣THIS IS A CANADA WIDE CALL

Participants have the opportunity to:
✨ Present their strongest pieces
✨ Promote your studio + programs to a new audience
✨ Connect with some of Canada’s renowned Black dance artists
✨ Receive a $1,000 honorarium
✨ And more!

💢Application deadline June 15, 11:59 PM
🔗Apply now via the link in our bio or visit https://danceimmersion.ca/calls/

WORKSHOP + PERFORMANCE ALERT!📣

Toronto, don't miss TWO opportunities to celebrate Guinean culture with KIRA ARTS next week.

🕺🏿Traditional Dances of Guinea Workshop
📆 June 16 | 7:00 PM
📍 Meridian Arts Centre, North York
✨️OPEN TO ALL

ℹ️Join KIRA ARTS founder Aly Keita for an immersive workshop that explores the foundations of Guinean dance through movement, breath, rhythm, and musicality.

🎪NIMBA
📆 June 19 & 20
📍 Meridian Arts Centre, North York

ℹ️Experience Kira Arts LIVE as they perform NIMBA at Luminato Festival — a powerful celebration of Guinean culture inspired by the sacred Baga Mother mask and Mount Nimba. Blending dance, ritual, and breathtaking acrobatics, NIMBA takes audiences on a journey through spirituality, conflict, renewal, and abundance.

✨️Presented by dance Immersion and Luminato Festival
✨️In association with TO Live.

🔗 Register for the workshop at: https://danceimmersion.ca/kiraworkshop/

🔗Purchase tickets at https://danceimmersion.ca/nimba/

WE NEED YOUR HELP COMMUNITY! 📣

We’re incredibly honoured and grateful that ZAYO has received five Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, and even more excited to be in the running for the Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award!🎉

📣 Now we need the support of our incredible community to help bring this award home.

✅️ Vote for ZAYO for the 2026 Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award
✅️ You can vote once every 24 hours
✅️ Click the link in our bio or visit:
🔗tapa.ca/doras/ancillary-awards/jon-kaplan-audience-choice-award/

Every vote makes a difference, and we’re so grateful to you community for your continued support.🙏🏾

Thank you for supporting ZAYO. We can’t wait for Dora Day on June 29! 🏆

📷 Credit Tibebu
🎨Poster design credit Quentin VerCetty

Wishing everyone a fun, beautiful, and safe pride month! ✨️🏳️‍🌈

The Doras Are Calling! 🎉

We are thrilled and incredibly grateful to celebrate the 2026 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for ZAYO!

✨️Outstanding Production: ZAYO
dance Immersion & Esie Mensah Creations, in association with TO Live

✨️Outstanding Original Choreography:
Esie Mensah

✨️Outstanding Performance by an Individual:
Rose-Mary Harbans

✨️Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble: Esie Mensah, Kwasi Obeng-Adjei, Monique Pascall, Eilish 미정 Shin-Culhane, and JA.Marie

✨️Outstanding Achievement in Design
Simon Rossiter (Lighting) – ZAYO

Congratulations to the entire ZAYO team. Your creativity, dedication, and commitment to this work have been extraordinary, and it has been inspiring to this work come to life on stage.

A special thank you to Esie Mensah for entrusting us to present this powerful production, and to our presenting partners TO Live for their support throughout this journey.

Congratulations to all of this year's nominees! We look forward to celebrating with you on June 29. 🎉✨

📷Photo credits Dawit Tibebu & Michael Mortley

🚨 WORKSHOP ALERT 🚨

Join us for workshop led by Aly Keita of Kira Arts, with dance participation by Fodé Bamba Camara and live percussion accompaniment.

📅 Tuesday, June 16, 2026
🕖 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
📍 Meridian Arts Centre – Rehearsal Hall
5040 Yonge Street, North York

OPEN TO ALL, this open-level workshop will focus on the foundations of movement: grounding, posture, breathing, coordination, and the relationship between body and rhythm. Through guided exercises and movement explorations, participants will be invited to develop a deeper awareness of movement, breath, and musicality while discovering the richness of the physical dynamics found in Guinean dances.

The workshop will also explore the connection between voice, rhythm, and gesture, as well as the body’s ability to articulate different energies and layers of movement simultaneously.

✨️Presented by dance Immersion & Luminato Festival

🔗Register today at https://danceimmersion.ca/kiraworkshop/

🚨WORKSHOP ALERT🚨

Pull up this Saturday for a FREE Krump workshop with Toronto’s own RHINO at the NBS Block Party! 🔥

📆 Saturday, May 30
⏰ 11:45 AM
📍 Canada’s National Ballet School
400 Jarvis Street, Toronto

Dive into the foundations of Krump and experience the energy, expression, and movement that make this style so powerful. Presented by Dance Immersion.

PLUS — catch RHINO in a special pop-up performance on the NBS front driveway at 2:30 PM 👀

🔗 RSVP now at https://www.nbs-enb.ca/new-now/nbs-block-party/