CinnaMoon Collective Movement and Creation Series

Join us in a movement series led by CinnaMoon Collective hosted both at The 519 and Jamii Studios. CinnaMoon Collective will guide you in a memory-based movement exploration. Be prepared to connect, and do some creation in this series.

Our program will run from 6:00-8:30 pm in the following days:

• May 13th at The 519. 
• May 17that Jamii Studios. 
  
  

About the CinnaMoon Collective

CinnaMoon Collective is founded by Irma Villafuerte and Nickeshia Garrick, a Central American and Afro-Caribbean contemporary dance duo that is dedicated to reclaiming and honouring ancestral stories from a decolonial perspective, with the mission to ignite collective healing and recontextualize identity through the lens of black, Indigenous and racialized femme presenting queer bodies. We are committed to forming part of the movement dedicated to magnifying the voices that have been silenced and erased. We aim to share works that reach our audiences and communities on a human level. Nickeshia and Irma have been collaborating as dance artists for over 7 years through companies such as Victoria Mata Productions, Jaberi Dance Theatre and Kaeja d’Dance, to name a few. Most recently in the play Pluto, written and directed by Shaunga Tagore. Irma and Nickeshia are mid-career dance artists and educators interested and passionate in reclaiming joys, cultural memory and reconnecting to homeland. As individual artists, they are nominated and award-winning performers with extensive training in dance, theatre, and voice work.

CinnaMoon Collective has nurtured their creative beginnings through residencies in El Salvador at the Centro de Arte para la Paz in Suchitoto (Arts Centre for Peace), through Aluna Theatre which led to a work-in-progress presentation at Caminos Festival in fall 2023, and presented the same work in progress at Aeris Korper’s Prospects, an Evening of Dance and Discussion. The collective recently premiered their full-length, immersive dance-theatre work “Surrendered Spirits” in May 2024, which was nominated for two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and was co-presented and co-curated by dance Immersion and Kaeja d’Dance.

www.cinnamooncollective.com

@cinnamoon.collective

info@cinnamooncollective.com

Accessibility Information about The 519:

• The 519 has a ramp and elevator access.
• Gender-Neutral Washrooms available on all floors, with accessible washroom.
• Light snacks, water and presto tickets will be available.

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