Artist Biographies

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Choreographer / Dancer - After performing her work in New York, Alex Elliott and Hurricane Sandy came face to face. Physically demanding and emotionally charged, her work made it back to her hometown of Winnipeg and beyond. Her dances have been presented in New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Regina, and Halifax. Alex thanks Tedd Robinson for his ecstasy charged commission Logarian Rhapsody. She is the Artistic Director of her own company Alexandra Elliott Dance, as well as Art Holm, a multidisciplinary performance series in Winnipeg.

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Dancer / Collaborator - Emma Beech is a dance artist from Treaty 1 Territory / Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has performed the work of many choreographers including Zorya Arrow, Ali Robson and Natasha Torres-Garner for Weather Parade Dance Theatre, Sam Penner, Alex Elliott, Sharon Alward, Carol-Anne Bohrn, Alexandra Garrido and Christina Medina/@tendance. Emma has been exploring her own choreographic practice with works for stage and film. This includes a new solo work on dancer Naomi Wiebe, a new co-created duet with Zorya Arrow and a new collaborative work with We Quit Theatre premiering in September 2025. She has a BA Honours in dance from The School of Contemporary Dancers/University of Winnipeg (2016), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba (2022).

Dancer / Collaborator - Andrés Jiménez Mejía is a contemporary dancer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1999. Andrés started his formal dance training in Colombia at the age of 17 with contemporary dance and ballet. He is a 2022 graduate of The School of Contemporary Dancers Senior Professional Program and he has a Bachelor of Arts in Dance at the University of Winnipeg. Andrés danced with Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers from 2022 - 2023 in projects such as "Emerging artist initiative" and Idan Cohen's piece in residency with WCD, "Looking Glass”. He has been dancing with Alexandra Elliott Dance since 2024. His interest in dance comes from an urge to express emotions and create atmospheres that will make the participant feel part of the artistic experience.

Dancer / Collaborator - Justine Erickson is a Winnipeg based dancer, and a proud member of the Red River Métis Nation. She graduated from the School of Contemporary Dancers, and completed her BA Honours majoring in Dance at the University of Winnipeg. She has performed with companies such as Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, Alexandra Elliott Dance, NAfro Dance Productions, and New Dance Horizons in Regina. With two of her sisters, she is a founding member of The Eriksson Collective; in 2022 they co-created four short dance films exploring Métis family roots and the absences of material culture through museum collections in Scotland. She recently performed alongside their completed film in Auckland, New Zealand.

Lighting Designer - Max Mummery is a queer designer specializing in theatrical and dance productions. After finishing the honours production program and lighting design practicum at the University of Winnipeg, they eagerly jumped into the industry as a lighting technician, Fringe intern and technician, lighting design apprentice at RMTC, completed the Creative Manitoba mentorship program twice, assistant stage managed for the school of contemporary dancers, and is the former technical director of Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers. Some recent lighting design credits include: Owl Calling- Root Sky Productions, Le Palucheur- Théâtre Cercle Molière,Volare- Prairie Theatre Exchange, PHASE 4.0- Alexandra Elliott, The Seat Next to the king- Root Sky Productions, Bastard- OFUR, Inédit- Théâtre Cercle Molière, Personate- an installation for TCM, and they have acted as several roles for Art Holm, ranging from stage management to lighting design. They have a fierce love for DIY performance art!

Composer - Dasha Plett is a Winnipeg-based artist working with performance, sound, and video. Highlights include performances for Cluster Festival, Nuit Blanche, Young Lungs Dance Exchange, Art Holm, WNDX Festival (where her performance Etudes for Keyboard received Best New Prairie Work), and send+receive (where she performed on a bill with internationally renowned computer musician Carl Stone). As a sound designer and composer she has worked with the Buddies in Bad Times, Stratford Festival, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Cercle Molière, Theatre Projects Manitoba, Mammalian Diving Reflex, OneTrunk Theatre, Frances Koncan, Waawaate Fobister, Debbie Patterson, and Alexandra Elliott. Dasha is also one half of We Quit Theatre, a nationally touring performance collective with Gislina Patterson. She is a proud member of IATSE local ADC659, and a professional audio describer with VIEW Winnipeg. Visit Dasha online at www.princessdasha.com.

Costume + Set Designer - Brenda McLean is a multidisciplinary theatre and dance designer, director, and creator based on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is delighted to bring her Icelandic heritage to this evocative dance piece. Her recent credits include costume design for Billie and the Moon (MTYP); set design for Owl Calling (Roots Sky Productions); costume design for Ponderosa Pine and Raised by Women (PTE); and both set and costume design for Romeo and Juliet (Magnus Theatre). Her work has been showcased across Canada and featured on Stratford Festival’s Digital Theatre. In 2022 and 2024, Brenda produced Bike and Circuses with Green Kids Inc., blending environmental activism and performance in Whittier Park. She co-directed and choreographed Love and Information with Ali Robson, and earned an Evie Award for Outstanding Set and Costume Design for Deserter with Moving Target Theatre. Brenda loves to explore the intersections of design, movement, and storytelling.

Dramaturge - Philip Jonah Logan Geller (they/them) is Jewish (Ashkenazi) and Red River Michif (Métis) with Logan, Dupuis, Vandal ancestors, and roots to the historic Métis community of Rooster Town. Philip is currently based in Winnipeg/Wînipêk (Treaty 1). 

As a storyteller they have worked across Turtle Island as a performer, director, dramaturg, producer, clown, creator, and community worker with companies and festivals including Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre, Stratford Festival, Theatre YES, Gwaandak Theatre, Toronto Metropolitan University, Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Citadel Theatre, and Paprika Theatre Festival. They are a graduate of the MFA directing program at York University and the BFA Acting Program at the University of Alberta. 

Philip is the Co-Artistic Producer for Kiyanaan Indigenous Theatre Festival in Winnipeg, MB. They are creating new works in residency at The Theatre Centre, Theatre Passe Muraille, and as a part of the Playwrights Unit with Prairie Theatre Exchange and Manitoba Association of Playwrights. Their solo clown/trickster show who will save the night sky is currently touring Canada with stops in Ontario, Yukon, and Manitoba.