Lara Kramer is a performer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Oji-Cree and settler heritage, who grew up in London, Ontario. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Over the past twenty years, her choreographic research and fieldwork have been grounded in intergenerational relationships, intergenerational knowledge and the impact of residential schools on Canada’s aboriginal people. She is the first generation of her family not to have attended residential schools. Kramer’s relationship with experiential practice and the creative process of performance, sound development and visual design is rooted in the embodiment of experiences such as dreams, memories, knowledge and reclamation. Her dance, performance and installation creations have been presented in Canada and Australia, New Zealand, Martinique, Norway, Belgium, Austria, the USA and the UK.

Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier is a queer, Métis, Franco-Manitoban artist from Winnipeg currently based in Tkaronto. They are continuously discovering what these intersecting identities mean to them, and the role they play in their art as a dancer, choreographer and educator. Her work explores identity, relationality, and collaboration, and has been presented across Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener, and Montreal. Recent credits include touring with Métis dance company, V’ni Dansi, and performing in Heidi’s Strauss’ newest work, tender. She is passionate about learning and has trained in Flying Low & Passing Through with David Zambrano in Brussels, Belgium. She hopes to continue to develop these techniques and incorporate them into her teaching practice.