Stéphanie is a Franco-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, curator, performer, teacher, and arts administrator. Graduating from Concordia University with a BFA in Contemporary Dance, she was rewarded as the most outstanding graduate for her expansive interpretation of choreography and her intermedia practice. Shortly after, her clown training with David MacMurray Smith and Deanna Fleycher sparked her interest in blending audience interaction and honouring impulse within her creative process.

Her group choreography (Coming And Going, Bear Dreams and Within | Between), comedy duo shows (THE MERKIN SISTERS, BUSHEL AND PECK), and solo productions (INK, BLINDSIDE and EYE CANDY) have been celebrated by a wide range of audiences, critics, and producers with sold out runs, raving 5-star reviews, international tours, and multiple awards underlining her dedication to her practice, professionalism, and vulnerability on stage.

Through her one-person solo performances, she establishes a trusting and safe environment by sharing her very own experiences and how she managed to work through her childhood traumas and come to terms with her disability.

Past co-producer and co-host of Dirty Feet, Stéphanie orchestrated a modern discourse on dance and physical theatre. She is currently the Artistic Director of IN/ON/OUT Festival as well as the Artistic Director and General Manager of the Stéphanie Morin-Robert Performance Non-Profit-Society, a registered non profit organization that is currently gearing up to launch Manitoba based programing for their 2022-2023 season.

Rebecca Sawdon is an independent contemporary dance artist based in Winnipeg, MB. She enjoys the privilege of living and working in Treaty 1 Territory. Her experience includes work as a dance interpreter, performer, artist educator, choreographer and producer. She is the founder and artistic director of Sawdon Dance. Her resume includes a diverse variety of professional contracts with many reputable companies and artists, including Odette Heyn-Projects, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO), Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, Company Link, M-body, New Dance Horizons, amongst others. Rebecca has toured, performed and taught across Canada, trained professionally in Europe, and has been the recipient of many artistic grants. She has served as a peer assessor / jury member for local arts councils. Rebecca holds a BA Honours Degree in Dance from the University of Winnipeg and is a graduate of the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers.

Rebecca has extensive experience working as a dance educator, mentor and rehearsal director. Her unique perspective is valued by educators and school boards who regularly contract her to develop and deliver arts programming. She has worked with diverse groups, from pre-professional training students, to at-risk youth at a corrections facility. She loves connecting with students of all ages and abilities. Rebecca regularly teaches residencies throughout Manitoba for Manitoba Arts Council’s: Artists In The Schools program. She is also an artist-educator for St. James-Assiniboia School Division’s: The Integrated Arts Program, working with youth, while training teachers on how to incorporate dance/movement into curriculum.

With a multi-faceted and distinct style, jaymez has worked in the visual art, dance, theatre and music communities for over a decade. His work has appeared in a number of international festivals, theatrical and dance productions and he has created lighting, video and sound designs for a wide range of companies, choreographers and musicians. His theatrical work has garnered him two Winnipeg Theatre Awards for outstanding design. He is the board chair of Video Pool Media Arts Center and also sits on the board of IATSE Local ADC659.

Jasmine Tara is from Peguis First Nation and Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation (Jackhead), raised in Winnipeg’s west end. She belongs to the Ojibway nation, Cree nation and Icelandic nation.

She graduated from Creative Communications at Red River College. Jasmine is also a graduate of the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership at the COADY Institute at StFX University. She worked in food security giving hundreds of workshop’s in Winnipeg’s north end until 2017 and has been self-employed in communications since, working with various Indigenous, arts and non-profit organizations.

Abby Falvo is a comedian and multi-disciplinary artist from Winnipeg. She worked as the sound designer for the Winnipeg production of Evil Dead the Musical, producer/live sound artist for COMMANDO: The Radio Play, and directed a One-Take Super 8 film that premiered as part of WNDX 2021. She produces the monthly stand-up show called Party Mix at Wee Johnny’s, and plays bad covers of 80s’ songs on the Omnichord.

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Janell Henry is an arts and cultural worker from Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation, Manitoba. Her love for art and technology started with music and expanded into a wider range of media production after getting involved in rez radio in her home community. She studied media production, writing, psychology and film at The Mid-Ocean School of Media Arts(2011-2012), University of Winnipeg (2012-2019) and National Screen Institute(2020).

Manufacturing Entertainment is Julie Gendron + Emma Hendrix. For over 14 years, they have collaborated using multiple media, including video, sound, installation, analog/digital technologies, the internet and performance. Hendrix + Gendron create in order to express what is hidden in plain sight and to encourage the creative capacities of observers and participants. Using sound, installation and visual forms, Gendron + Hendrix take everyday actions, objects and environments, and manipulate them in order to conjure multiple meanings from an unending exploration occurring within themselves with the goal of helping to form new points of view for their audiences.

Hendrix + Gendron began working together within the new music community improvising audio-visual performances, before moving on to develop interactive and immersive sound based installations. One such installation, don’t stop, has been exhibited in Canada, Sweden, Spain and Japan. Other works include noise/denoise (audio tape players and a waterbed), 39bpm (a dryer and a rocking chair), iDon’tStop (iPhone app) and Permanent Deviation (an online collaborative processing generative image making application).

Despite the whimsical nature of their artwork, Gendron + Hendrix are ultimately investigating the effects of transformation and decay, and the role that people play in its perpetuation or its resistance. The installations involve active participation without demanding it, and are unique to a time and place; they have permanence but are never the same for any two viewers. Many of these works create micro-environments where participation is key to the artwork, and inevitably changes it for other audiences.

Over the last few years, Hendrix + Gendron have returned to audio-visual performances. These are concerned with capturing and augmenting natural displays of rapidly changing environments, such as Iceland’s glaciers or British Columbia’s Peace River Valley, which is currently under threat by the construction of the Site C Dam.

Each of Gendron + Hendrix’s artworks or performances come from an initial idea, a desired outcome or aesthetic and is followed by a form. The idea drives their choice of technology or medium. Ultimately these two artists want to present alternative perspectives in the hope that people will see their own interpretations as a substantial alternative to those presented by the mass media