Deborah Lundmark, Co-Founder, Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer, has created more than 40 works for her company. These include collaborations with the Danny Grossman Dance Company and blues artists Thompson Egbo-Egbo and Jerome Godboo. From her Street Songs (1980) to Salients (2023), Lundmark has impressed audiences and critics alike with the power, precision and artistry of her unique company. She has commissioned over one hundred works from a who’s who of Canadian choreographers including David Earle, Carol Anderson, Tedd Robinson, Santee Smith and from abroad, Colin Connor, Sidra Bell, Kevin Wynn, Roderick George, Jennifer Archibald and Alexander Whitley. Her company won Toronto Arts Foundation’s prestigious Arts for Youth Award and has been critically acclaimed as “a national treasure… numbered among the ranks of Toronto’s top dance companies” by The Globe and Mail. Her dancers have gone on to perform with many of the world’s leading companies including the Limón Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, Doug Varone and Dancers, Gallim Dance, Company Wayne McGregor and Skanes Dansteater, among many others.

Nicole Caruana is a freelance dance artist from Buffalo, New York and is an alumna of the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College under the direction of Nelly Van Bommel. Nicole has trained formally with the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, London Contemporary Dance School, The School at the American Dance Festival, Arts Umbrella, and has studied Gaga intensively alongside Batsheva Dance Company in Israel. She’s had the opportunity to perform the works of some of her mentors including Ohad Naharin, Saar and Lee Harari, and Doug Varone. 

As a freelance choreographer, Nicole has received commissions to create new works for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, and Ballet X of Philadelphia. Her company, UANA DANS was established as Nicole’s creative home and outlet to share choreographies at home and abroad. Her work Arba was awarded first prize at The International competition for choreographers in Hanover, Germany. Since the company’s inception, they have been invited to perform in Germany, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Sweden, New York and Texas. 

Nicole is the recipient of The Technos College International Prize for her efforts in cultural ambassadorship abroad. Together with fellow Purchase alumni Taylor Railton and Mercedez Mize, Nicole is a co-founder of traveling workshop and choreographic platform “The Herd.” 

Peter Chu trained at Dussich Dance Studio before earning a BFA from The Juilliard School. Peter has performed with Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Crystal Pite's Kidd Pivot, EZdanza, Aszure Barton and Artists, and Celine Dion's “A New Day”. He has been commissioned by Ballet Augsburg, Backhaus Dance, Charlotte Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Cirque du Soleil, DART Dance Company, Gibney Dance Company, Giordano Dance Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Kansas City Ballet, MØN Festival, and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. He also has been Rehearsal Director for Nederlands Dans Theater 2 and Guest Rehearsal Director for NDT1. His accolades include the 2010 A.C.E. Capezio Award and the 2008 Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival choreographer award. He is a Choreographic Mentor for the Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellows and the Upsurge Dance Festival. In 2008, Peter founded chuthis. where, as the director of his chuthis. Perspectives program and co-director of Creating WAVES with Jess Hendricks, he continues to push the physical boundaries of dance.