A Matter of life and Breath (premiere 2011) / Credits

Elise Legrand graduated from the Conservatoire de Danse de Montréal (2002) in classical ballet with M. Daniel Seillier.  Since her graduation, she has worked with choreographers of different styles in contemporary dance as well as theatrical, percussive and Indian such as Krea Movo dance company, Sursaut, Axile, Marie-Soleil Pilette and Manijeh Ali. As a multidisciplinary artist, she also performs as a singer, choreographer and circus artist. 

Originally from the Central African Republic, Ghislaine Doté is a dancer, choreographer, and composer. Eclectic as an interpreter, she worked with Van Grimde Corps secret, Company Flak, and the Montreal Opera appearing in the production Starmania (Plamondon/ Berger).She recently danced for Gibson Muriva, an emerging choreographer.

Ghislaine has also established herself as a solid emerging choreographer having created four pieces to date, both choreographic and musical.

In 2007, aside from being the recipient of the Gloria Mitchell Award, and was honored as laureate by the Black History Month. During that very year, she has joined Sinha Danse.

A British Columbia native, Laurence Ramsay attended The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and graduated in 2008. Afterwards, he received a training at École Nationale de Cirque in Montreal. He has had the pleasure to work with well-known choreographers such as Massimo Agostinelli, Sylvain Emard, D.A. Hoskins, Roger Sinha, Darryl Tracy and Paula de Vasconcelos on various project across Canada, and Brazil.  

Originally from Peru, Raul Huaman has a traning in artistic gymnastics and in Capoiera. Graduated from LADMMI in 2005, he develops a passion for Candace Loubert work, Teacher an founder of LADMMI for which it draws inspiration in its body language to be the most genuine in its dance. Raul was a company member of Cas Public. In 2008 he created his piece callled ¨Si C à Moi¨ before joining Sinha dance company in 2009.

"A marvelous dancer with wonderful control" (Globe and Mail).

Tanya Crowder has been working as a professional dance artist for 15 years, during which time she has been a company member of Kaeja d'Dance (Toronto) for seven seasons and has worked with several independent choreographers including Julia Sasso, Claudia Moore, Kate Alton, Eryn Dace Trudell, Lin Snelling, Darcey Callison, Pam Johnson, and Allison Cummings. Tanya Crowder is thrilled to be joining Sinha Danse.

Tanya resides in Toronto where she is a dance teacher for the 509 Dance Collective, and Production Manager for Series 8:08's Choreographic Performance Workshop, as well as the Artistic Director of Dance Matters and her company HOWDARESHE Productions.

Thomas Casey completed a bachelor of arts 'ex honoris' in dance at the University of Winnipeg.   As a member of  Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers he traveled to Montréal to remount  choreographer Jean-Pierre Perreault's classic, JOE. In April, 2004 he will return to the cast of JOE for the show's 20th anniversary world tour. With Sinha Danse Tom is able to explore dance as a mixture of "meaningful gesture" (as words on a page) and pure movement in the dynamic sense. Tom is grateful to have been actively collaborating with Sinha Danse since 1996.