Deborah Lundmark
Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer

Deborah Lundmark, Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of CCDT, has created more than 30 works for her company. These include collaborations with Danny Grossman, Holly Small, Toronto Children's Chorus and the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. From her Street Songs (1980) to Dancing Day (1989) and Platform Blues (2004), Deborah has impressed audiences and critics alike with her ability to nurture young dancers' natural joy in movement without sacrificing the technical precision expected of the professional.
    Deborah ranks among Canada's leading specialists in movement for the young with thirty years experience as a ballet instructor and a supervisor of teachers-in-training both at the School of CCDT and from 1994 to 2000 at Ryerson Theatre School. Touring with CCDT, Deborah has shared her expertise with teachers from Barrie to Beijing.

Michael de Coninck Smith
Co-Artistic Director and Production Manager

Michael deConinck Smith has directed the planning and staging of over one hundred CCDT productions as Managing Director and Production Manager. In 1988, he conceived and produced CCDT�s acclaimed collaboration with the Toronto Boys Choir and the Hanson Singers, the original WINTERSONG - dances for a sacred season.
    In 1990, Michael produced CCDT's first major international tour to the People's Republic of China, and the following year the premiere of SONGS of INNOCENCE and of EXPERIENCE realized one of his long-cherished dreams.
    In 1997 and again in 1999/2000, he planned CCDT's extensive tours of Northern Ontario, and in July 2002 led the company's return to Southeast Asia with performances in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Currently, Michael is overseeing the production of 30 Ontario Community Residencies designed to introduce young people to contemporary dance throughout the province.

Arwyn Carpenter has a twenty-year history with the Canadian Children's Dance Theatre, teaching, initiating and directing the Young Apprentice Program and now leading the Core Apprentices. She has given pedagogy workshops for the Canadian Dance Teachers Association, the Cecchetti Society, Ryerson and York Universities. She presented a lecture/demonstration on teaching Limón modern dance to young people at the Dance and the Child International Conference in 2000, and sat on a panel on dance teaching at the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science in New York, 2002. She holds an MFA from the Tisch School of New York University.

Jordana Deveau first came to CCDT in 1990, and danced in the company from 1994 to 2000, performing the works of many stellar Canadian choreographers including Margi Gillis, Carol Anderson, Holly Small, Bill Coleman, David Earle and Rachel Browne. While studying anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Jordana taught modern, conditioning and stretch classes, and performed with the school's dance team. Jordana spent two years working in the anti-violence field, providing crisis counselling and coordinating the Sexual Assault Support Centre on campus. Jordana performed as a guest artist in Wintersong in 2005, and in April 2006 became CCDT's Rehearsal Director

Heather Campbell,  Marketing , Development and Arts Education,
          development@ccdt.org
Jordana Deveau, Rehearsal Director 
Janelle Rainville & Arun Srinivasan, Production Personnel