Meet the cohort & what they will lead: 👋

✨ Alex Herrera – Acro Floorwork
✨ Amelia Ehrhardt – Weird Ballet
✨ Charlotte Cain – Workshopping Interpretation
✨ Cassandra Toutou – Exploring the styles of Cameroon & Congo: Makuné, Ambass Bey & Mdombolo
✨ Minuette Charron – Floorwork (Fresh Edition)
✨ Justin Fraser – Tending the Unknown

Each artist will lead 4 classes a month! 🗓️

Fall Dates

Alex Herrera @ale_herrer_a

September 8th, September 15th, September 22nd, September 29th

Amelia Ehrhardt @amelia.np.e

October 6th, October 20th, October 27th, November 3rd

(No class October 13th for Thanksgiving)

Charlotte Cain @cccccccccunever

November 10th, November 17th, November 24th, December 1st

Winter Dates

Cassandra Toutou @txutxuen

January 5th, January 12th, January 19th, January 26th

Minuette Charron @minuetcharron

February 2nd, February 9th, February 23rd, March 2nd

(No class February 16th for Family Day)

Justin Fraser @ophelia_manson

March 9th, March 16th, March 23rd, March 30th

More information about each artist & their classes can be found below!

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Alexander Herrera (Choreographer, Producer) was born in Chiapas, Mexico where he began his dance training in contemporary dance. He earned an exchange opportunity at the National School of Classical and Contemporary Dance in Mexico City where he worked with choreographers such as Erika Mendez and Rosana Filomarino. In Canada, Alexander has performed with Newton Moraes Dance Company, Ali McDonald, The Parahumans, Little Pear Garden and with Sarah Di Iorio. He teaches contemporary acrobatic floorwork workshops and most recently presented his choreographic work ‘Visibles’ at the Vanguardia Dance Festival. Alexander is the founder of MxM, a project promoting Canadian-Mexican cultural exchanges and the education of emerging artists.

Amelia Ehrhardt is a dancer, astrologer, and multidisciplinary artist in and from Toronto. Their work manifests as solo improvisation, group choreography, drawing, painting, and writing. Amelia's work is often concerned with deep dives into the western concert dance canon. Their work has been supported across Canada and internationally, including OFFTA (Montréal), SEAD (Austria), Mile Zero Dance (Edmonton), and local residencies at Harbourfront Centre and Toronto Dance Theatre. A dancer with two decades of performance experience, Amelia has appeared in works by Susie Burpee, Willi Dorner, Syrus Marcus Ware, Deanna Peters, Julia Sasso, Menaka Thakkar, and Suzy Lake, among others. Amelia was the Curator of Dancemakers Centre for Creation from 2015-2019. They were a 2017 danceWEB recipient and a 2016 Toronto Arts Council Leadership Lab fellow. Amelia holds a Masters in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto where they were an SSHRC recipient. Currently Amelia is preoccupied with teaching ballet and can be found at @weird_ballet / @amelia.np.e

Charlotte Cain is an emerging dance artist from Ottawa, where she began dancing at National Capital Dance Educators and taking annual Vaganova-style examinations under the Society of Classical Ballet. She trained at De La Salle High School’s CEAO specialized dance program, and thereafter went on to study at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, recently renamed Dance Arts Institute. During this program, she explored the deep-rooted Graham technique, excelled as a producer of a student-run production, and received The Winchester Prize for choreographic distinction.

Following graduation, Charlotte premiered her first dance film, What is I’m From, at the SummerWorks Performance Festival in 2021. Since performing in an excerpt at Dance Ontario’s DanceWeekend’22, she has been working with choreographer Yvonne Ng, artistic director of Tiger Princess Dance Projects. Through the Floorplay platform, Charlotte performed a self-created solo titled the contents in a co-production with Ottawa Dance Directive in 2024. Yvonne Ng’s newly premiered work, All That is Between, was a Dora Nominated show for Outstanding Ensemble and Choreography in 2025, the same year as Charlotte was honoured to be a Dance Juror of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

Driven by spontaneity, intuition, and curiosity, Charlotte Cain continues to deepen her artistry through an explorative, action-based practice, sharing dance in engaging and meaningful ways.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Cassandra Toutou is a dance artist and choreographer based in Brampton. Her love for Afro-dance was cultivated at home during her childhood via her Cameroonian upbringing. From then on, she has continued to develop her training by including elements of her cultural background and personal style. She fuses aspects of Ndombolo, Coupé Décalé and Ambasse Bey into her movement. Growing up in an African household, her ear for music was developed early on by the grandiosity of music videos and live performances, listening to various genres such as Makossa from Cameroon, Soukous from Congo, Highlife from Ghana and Nigeria. These experiences have helped shape her training and her love for African culture. She was a featured dancer in Drake's NOKIA music video, has been featured in productions such as Y3NKO and Sweet Mother at Citadel + Compagnie and has presented her work-in-progress piece Kid of the Diaspora at the Toronto Dance Theatre. She aspires to bridge the two realms that have marked her artistry the most into one, to oust the concept of polarity and to allow her movement to waver between continental and diasporic worlds.

Minuet “Min-T” Charron (She/They) Is a dance artist, creator, and imaginator based in Toronto, ON. Originally hailing from Nova Scotia, Minuet has trained in various forms of concert and street dances. They mainly practice Contemporary and Hip Hop and continue exploring, educating, and expanding their overall knowledge about these styles, their joy, and understanding of them.

An alumna from Dance Arts Institute, Minuet has been trained extensively in Contemporary dance forms including foundations of Graham, Inspired by Fighting Monkey, Flying Low and Passing Through, and has had the honour of performing works by Peggy Baker, Naishi Wang, Ashley “Colours” Perez, Tanveer Alam, Ryan Lee, and Elke Schroeder.

Minuet continues to perform, teach, and explore Contemporary dance, while also giving time to their Breaking and freestyle practices through attending battles, sessions, and community events. Minuet is passionate about creating spaces for community, being in a constant state of learning, growth, and curating spaces of kindness.

Justin Fraser is a queer, gender-fluid dance artist, choreographer, and drag performer based in Toronto. Their work blends contemporary dance, improvisation, and drag to explore gender, transformation, and emotional memory through movement. Performing as Ophelia Manson, they challenge binaries and amplify queer expression—earning Best Drag Performer 2023 in Toronto’s Church-Wellesley Village. Justin also produces a Toronto-based open-stage cabaret nurturing emerging drag artists.
Trained at Dance Arts Institute (formerly The School of Toronto Dance Theatre)and mentored by Heidi Strauss, Justin’s creative process is instinctual, somatically driven, and rooted in presence—whether raw, refined, or unresolved. They approach choreography as a space for inquiry rather than outcome, using improvisation and emotional landscapes to guide both their solo work and facilitation.
Justin has experience teaching creative movement workshops to LGBTQ2S+ youth at Camp fYrefly, where they led sessions grounded in affirmation, play, and self-expression. They are currently developing Shapeshift, a solo work supported by the Ontario Arts Council and residencies at Toronto Dance Theatre and Swansea School of Dance, alongside Tending the Unknown, a teaching initiative exploring uncertainty as a generative creative force that invites movers to linger in the pause—trusting what emerges from not-knowing.