DEBORAH LUNDMARK

Deborah Lundmark, TILT’s Artistic Director, launched TILT sound + motion with partner Michael deConinck Smith (Managing Director) at the 2002 Canada Dance Festival. The debut marked the fruition of a long-time dream for the founders, who envisioned a contemporary ensemble of emerging dance professionals equipped to speak directly and provocatively to contemporary audiences.

In many ways TILT picks up where the founders’ first passion, the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre (1980), leaves off. Ms. Lundmark has created more than 30 works for CCDT including collaborations with Danny Grossman, Holly Small, The Toronto Children’s Chorus and the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Her dances have delighted audiences across Canada and as far away as Singapore, Malaysia and the People’s Republic of China. In her spare time, Ms. Lundmark oversees her 600-student School of CCDT, located with the two companies in their 509 DANCE facility in the heart of Toronto’s Old Cabbagetown.

Elke Schroeder began her artistic training studying various disciplines of dance and theatre at Creative Dance Workshop in Oshawa, Ontario. After graduating from Bowmanville High School in 2000, she spent her first year of university at Herstmonceux Castle in the United Kingdom. The following year she continued her studies as a drama major at the University of Toronto. In 2002, Ms. Schroeder decided to return to dance and became a student at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. In May 2005, she graduated from STDT, where she had the opportunity to work with such inspiring dance artists as Serge Bennathan, Marc Boivin, Peter Chin, Paul-André Fortier, the Danny Grossman Company, Christopher House, Sasha Ivanochko, Sharon Moore, Julia Sasso, Heidi Strauss and Michael Trent.

Ms. Schroeder has danced at fFIDA, the Junction Arts Festival and at In a White Room. In 2004, she performed and helped create the role of 'the girl' in The Power of the Dog, directed by Christopher Brauer for Equity Showcase Theatre. Ms. Schroeder has worked with Darryl Tracy, Yvonne Ng and Kaeja D'Dance, and has created and shown several performance art installations in the city. She has continued her dance training in Toronto and in Europe, and is currently on the path to becoming a yoga instructor. This is her fourth season with TILT.
 

Emily Tench is a Toronto-based dancer, director and choreographer. She is a graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and The Rotterdam Dance Academy. In 2005 she joined the Dutch contemporary dance theatre company Theatergroep DOX, for their project Darkside, which toured the Netherlands and Belgium extensively. During that time she was also featured in a short dance film, by Agnija _eiko of Lithuania. Emily performed Frozen Sand; a solo also choreographed by _eiko, at the 2006 Prague Dance Festival, Tanec Praha. In the 2006-07 season she performed the new work ZERO with MOVE: The Company at the Vancouver International Dance Festival. Emily currently runs her own interdisciplinary dance and dance film company, Deformo Productions, and is presently in the creation phase of a new work entitled the Departure Project. Her dance film Crumbled House premiered at MADance Screen Salon in October. Emily is thoroughly enjoying her fourth season with Toronto's TILT sound+motion.
 

Christophe Brochard was born in the city of Nantes, France and later immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of 10. Shortly after his arrival he began his formal dance training at The National Ballet School in Toronto. While at the school he was fortunate to have worked with such choreographers as Jiri Kylian, John Neumier, Toer Van Shayk, Christopher House and Peggy Baker. Christophe has also trained at The School of Alberta Ballet in Calgary, Rudra Béjart in Lausanne and The Australian Ballet School in Melbourne. He is very excited to joining TILT sound+motion for a second season.
 

Native to Newmarket, Ontario, Andrew Taylor began training at the age of 14 at Huron Heights Secondary School. Studying under Alex Cilic, he was introduced to the jazz styles of Fosse and Luigi. In 2004, he was accepted into the dance program at York University, and in 2005 he entered the Professional Training Program at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. At the School, Taylor has had the privilege of dancing in choreography by Conrad Alexandrowicz, Marc Boivin, Danny Grossman, Christopher House, Coralee McLaren, Julia Sasso, Roger Sinha, Heidi Strauss, and Darryl Tracy. He is pleased to have danced various works with Zata Omm Dance Projects, toured the summer of 2008 with Corpus, danced in The Ontario Ballet Theatre's production of the nutcracker and performed as a guest artist for the Toronto Dance Theatre. Taylor is excited to be performing with his friends in Tilt.
 

Pamela Shoebottom began her dance training at Canterbury H.S.P.A and Ottawa School of Dance where she studied Ballet and Modern. After graduating with a Music diploma from the Arts High School she realized her passion for dance and was inspired to pursue dance as a career. Pamela graduated with a BFA in Dance from York University. Since graduating she has performed with Teresa Carpio in Hong Kong, and in Toronto she has performed for fFida with choreographer Aimee Dawn Robinson, Summer works in the show 7 days 7 days Choreographer Chelsea Omel, The Parahumans with Dave Wilson. Pamela is thrilled to currently be on board with Tilt Sound and Motion.

Originally from Quebec City, Louis Laberge-Côté started studying dance, music, and theatre at a very young age. During his adolescence, he danced, choreographed, and taught for many local dance companies with whom he toured throughout Canada and Europe. At 20, he won the Jury Award, the Audience Award, and the Competitors’ Award for Outstanding Performance of his own solo choreography Je suis malade at the Québec Provincial Dance Festival "Encore 96". After graduating from the modern dance professional training program of L’École de Danse de Québec, he moved to Toronto where he graduated from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, on a scholarship from the Quebec foundation FCAR (Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche). In 1999, Laberge-Côté joined Toronto Dance Theatre, and he danced with the company for 8 seasons. During this time, he performed nationally and internationally in the works of TDT Artistic Director Christopher House, as well as in pieces by Kate Alton, Valerie Calam, Peter Chin, Elizabeth Chitty, Kim Frank, D.A. Hoskins, Sasha Ivanochko, Sharon Moore, Matjash Mrozewski, Yvonne Ng, and Sara Porter. In 2001, he was nominated with TDT for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in an Ensemble, in Christopher House's Severe Clear.

Recognized for his “refreshing spontaneity” (National Post), his “masterful physical control” (Globe and Mail), his “wit and elegance” (NOW Magazine), and his “ability to infuse even ordinary movements with drama” (Toronto Star), Laberge-Côté also enjoys a very active career as a freelance artist, touring in North America, Europe, and Asia. As an independent artist, he has appeared with CORPUS, the Chimera Project, the Danny Grossman Dance Company, DNA Theatre, Fougère Dance, and the Newton Moraes Dance Theatre. He has also danced the works of choreographers Peggy Baker, Serge Bennathan, Nova Bhattacharya, Darcey Callison, Roberto Campanella, Peter Chin, Natasha Gascho, Maxine Heppner, Sasha Ivanochko, Allen Kaeja, Susan Lee, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Sharon Moore, Shawn Newman, Yvonne Ng, Keiko Ninomiya, Lincoln Shand, Holly Small, Santee Smith, Heidi Strauss, Darryl Tracy, Michael Trent, and Marvin Vergara.

His choreographic works have been described as “vivid” (NOW Magazine), “utterly enchanting” (Globe and Mail), “highly entertaining” (24 hours), as a “pure pleasure” (Stage and Page), and as a “triumph... with tremendous depth and subtext” (Classical 96.3FM). They have been presented in many venues in Canada, including the DanceOntario Week-End; Dusk Dances; L'École de danse de Québec; the 2002 Festival collégial de danse du Québec; fFIDA (where he received, in 2003, the Paula Citron Award for Best Choreography for Futari en trois couleurs, co-choreographed with Keiko Ninomiya); the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival; the KalaNhidi Festival; the dance festival: made in canada/fait au canada; Ryerson Dances; The School of Toronto Dance Theatre; TILT sound + motion; Toronto Dance Theatre; and the Toronto International Dance Festival. He is one of the co-founders of the collective 3M Dances, with whom he has presented 3 different productions in Toronto since 2002.

Working in film as well as on stage, he has been part of five Bravo! Fact productions: Cinnamon Hills (director: Tara Raquel Cates), Numus (director: Seth-Adrian Harris), Urban Creatures (director: Francine Zuckerman), A Day at the Office (director: Robert Deleskie), and Romeo and Juliet before parting (director: Jay Field). Laberge-Côté has also taught contemporary and creative dance, improvisation, and composition workshops for many schools and studios in Canada including L’École de danse de Québec, McMaster University, The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre, York University, and the 509 Collective in Toronto. Involved in his community, Laberge-Côté is a member of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists – Ontario Chapter (where he was a Board Member from 2004 to 2007 and the Chair from 2005 to 2007), the Dancer Transition Resource Centre, and the Canadian Dance Assembly. He also sat on the Dance Division Jury of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts during the 2006-07 season.

He was recently nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in Heaven (choreography: Sasha Ivanochko), and NOW Magazine called him the “Dance Most Valuable Player” in Toronto for the year 2006. He is currently on the faculty at Ryerson University and is Artist in Residence at the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre.
 

Michael de Coninck Smith, Managing Director
michael@ccdt.org  

Co-founder of TILT sound+motion and CCDT, Michael has directed the planning and staging of over one hundred TILT and CCDT productions as Managing Director and Production Manager. In 1990, Michael produced CCDT’s first major international tour to the People’s Republic of China, and has led TILT and CCDT tours around Ontario. Currently, Michael is overseeing the production of 20 Ontario Community Residencies designed to introduce young people to contemporary dance throughout the province.
 

Elizabeth Varty, Marketing, Development and Arts Education Director,
development@ccdt.org 
 

Arun Srinivasan, Lighting Designer

Arun designs for dance, theatre, music, and special events. Dance artists include Robert Desrosiers, Danny Grossman, Claudia Moore, Denise Fujiwara, Peter Chin, David Earle, Newton Moraes, Corpus, and CCDT. For theatre, Spark Productions, SummerWorks, Cahoots Theatre Projects, Fallen Rock Productions and Buddies In Bad Times Theatre. Arun has assisted on new galleries at The ROM and worked with Mirvish Productions as the Toronto associate lighting designer for The Lion King.

Special events include The Walk of Fame, CTV’s Fall Launches, The David Suzuki Foundation and It’s Always Something for Gilda’s Club. In 2003, he was fortunate to receive a Dora nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design. He has enjoyed working with TILT over the past few seasons and is pleased to have designed several of its works. Productions have taken him to Ukraine, Malaysia, Singapore, India and across North America. When not in the theatre, he can be found at the park on the monkey bars with his wife and son. Arun is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

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