| Solheim, Krista |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2021-2022 |
$1,000 |
A rehearsal director apprenticeship in dance with Faye Thomson, one of the Artistic Directors of The School of Contemporary Dancers professional program. |
| Rose, Karen |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$10,307 |
Collaborating with three composers to create the music/soundtrack for three of my choreographic solos. |
| KSAMB Dance Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
KSAMB dance company hosts teacher Katarina Eriksson and two invited dance improvisers for a workshop and performance to grow Contact improvisation skills and improvisation community. |
| Boyd, Julia |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Derkitt, Elle |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Ritter-Magot, Nathaniel |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
— |
| My Humanitas Family Services |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
This development project (MyHumanitas Dance Summer Camp) aims to help children develop creative dance skills and improve social interactions through dance training and movement activities. |
| Alpha Kids Crew |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$8,000 |
Game Theory V is a free community festival focusing on youth, female, and non-binary involvement in Breakin’ and growing awareness to the street dance culture. |
| Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery |
Moose Jaw |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,500 |
Presenting contemporary dance by New Dance Horizons in response to Edward Poitras' exhibition as part of National Day of Truth & Reconciliation community programming. |
| My Humanitas Family Services |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
This Fall Program 2022 aims to help children develop creative dance skills, character development and improve social interactions through dance training and movement activities. |
| Moker Wernikowski, Connie |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$5,714 |
To rehearse and present Full Tilt Two, a performance of my recent choreography, at Regina's Artesian on Treaty 4 Land, April 27-29, 2023. |
| COMPANY |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,500 |
A dance journey to New York City to learn, grow, and inspire our artistic practices as individuals and as a group. |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2022-2023 |
$6,000 |
To host the third edition of the Borealis Flamenco Festival consisting of performances by local artists, introductory workshops and Flamenco dance master classes. |
| Central Urban Metis Federation Inc. |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
CUMFI would like to provide jigging lessons as a cultural and entertaining event for children ages 5 to 15 to revitalize the dance Metis. |
| Perry, Chancz |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Deliver a movement-based workshop at Connectively Moving Our Dance and screen two short-videos at the IABD International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance. |
| Chinese Dance Club of Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Professional dance instructor Zhaojia Wu instructs Korean K-pop dance routines. They will be presented on January 22, 2023 at the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon. |
| Semple, Zenaya |
regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$624 |
To rehearse, adapt and perform “Holloway,” originally an outdoor site specific contemporary dance performance, to be presented at Darke Hall in April 2023. |
| Ahmed, Iftu |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$624 |
Adapt, rehearse and perform “Holloway”, originally an outdoor site specific contemporary dance performance, for Darke Hall, an indoor accessible venue in April 2023. |
| Brown-McEwen, Belle |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To rehearse, adapt and perform “Holloway,” originally an outdoor site specific contemporary dance performance, to be presented at Darke Hall in April 2023. |
| Wishlow, Isabella |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
To rehearse, adapt and perform “Holloway”. Originally an outdoor site specific contemporary dance performance, to be presented at Darke Hall in April 2023. |
| Dinsmore Composite School |
Dinsmore |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
Rural students in Grades K-12 will expand their understanding of Indigenous culture and worldview as experienced through Indigenous story-telling and dance. |
Eden Care Communities Foundation Inc.
Heather Cameron |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2022-2023 |
$18,000 |
To deliver innovative multigenerational programming to Eden Care Communities involving creative dance, musical exploration and capturing the process through the creation of a music video. |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2022-2023 |
$1,000 |
A rehearsal director apprenticeship in dance with Faye Thomson, one of the Artistic Directors of The School of Contemporary Dancers professional program. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To present a full-length show entitled "Behind Us" in Saskatoon, SK. Intended for future goals of national and international touring as well as festival submissions. |
| Eger, Ruby |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$2,320 |
The opportunity to take part in a 1 week intensive training program under a renowned contemporary company, Rubberband in Montreal, Quebec. |
| Merasty, Marcus |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,000 |
Professional development in dance creation. Exploring Indigenous storytelling as choreographic research. |
| Bundon, Johanna |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,000 |
To research and create a dance piece, within a body of solo work, through Fall 2023. |
| Kuz, Tessa |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$3,367 |
To support the creation of a new contemporary dance solo choreographed by Adam Barruch and danced by Tessa Rae Kuz. |
| Czemeres, Jena |
Cupar |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2023-2024 |
$600 |
— |
| Ricketts, Kathryn |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
This workshop with master Richard Armstrong will undoubtedly provide me with the tools and feedback to develop more competencies in my performance work in dance/theatre. |
| Tajik, Noor |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To rehearse and showcase a 5 minute piece of original dance choreography for an event entitled Ghungroo: The South Asian Experience. |
| Merasty, Marcus |
Regina |
Dance |
Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists |
2023-2024 |
$7,500 |
To deepen my creative process and performance skills through realizing a dance-based performance work informed by traditional Indigenous art practices, choreographed by Robin Poitras. |
| FadaDance Troupe Inc. |
Regina |
Dance |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$20,500 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Free Flow Dance Theatre Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$20,500 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| New Dance Horizons Inc. |
Regina |
Dance |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2023-2024 |
$84,050 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Gelhorn, Avery |
Prince Albert |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2023-2024 |
$1,500 |
— |
| McPherson, Payton |
Regina |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
— |
| Kraft, Madison |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2023-2024 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Fehr, Alex |
Nipawin |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
To create and shoot a dance film, to be presented throughout Saskatchewan and Canada at large. |
| Cunningham, Tahnis |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
A dance workshop allowing Metis dancers and musicians to share and solidify knowledge of traditional Metis jigging and Canadian social and square dancing. |
| Bzdell, Rebecca |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
I intend to attend the professional semester at Broadway Dance Center. |
| KSAMB Dance Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,865 |
We will host choreographer and educator Kunji Ikeda to develop KSAMB’s performative practice of "Falling Queer" by critiquing 2 public performances and leading 2 workshops. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$800 |
I will research deep meaning of Lesya Ukrainka play Forest Song, second and third acts. Make a plan of dances, music for future folk ballet. |
| Wensel, Misty |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$700 |
To attend Chhandika Summer Intensive in Boston, MA from July 6- 10 to study with guest artists Joanna de Souza & Marni and Chris Ris. |
| Cameron, Heather |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$18,000 |
To create “helix” - a 10 minute contemporary dance duet in collaboration with acclaimed contemporary music composer Nicole Lizée. |
| Kazan, Lina |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2023-2024 |
$14,577 |
Development, preparation and multiple presentations of Flamenco Borealis' reimagined stage work "Qadar: a Date with Fate" |
Wildeman, Tatum
Father Megret High School |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$20,000 |
The project will provide youth access to dance for promotion of mental health through connection, celebration of culture, and foster expression of grief and trauma. |
Prairie Sky School
Terrance Littletent |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$11,297 |
This project is to create a spring dance festival, inspired by three guest dancers, hoop dance, wind, and kites. |
| Alpha Kids Crew |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$7,000 |
Game Theory VI is a free community festival focusing on youth, female, and non-binary involvement in Breakin’ and growing awareness to the street dance culture. |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2023-2024 |
$7,000 |
Production and presentation of the 2024 Borealis Flamenco Festival Series consisting of three shows and various workshops. |
| Merasty, Marcus |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$980 |
Professional development, see the first multilingual Métis Opera celebrating Riel's life, the roles that women have played in it, and includes Métis and contemporary dance. |
| Chinese Dance Club of Saskatoon |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$2,000 |
One of a kind and traditional Chinese drum dance, illustrating dancers using drums as their stages, a combination of classical dance and Han dynasty poetry. |
| Mirlin, Mike |
Warman |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$825 |
To have a custom tap dance floor/box designed & built to amplify and integrate tap into the creation of future work with rock musicians. |
| Merasty, Marcus |
Regina |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Consultations with performing arts presenters in Regina, toward future mentorship and residency opportunities. |
| Dr. Brass School |
Yorkton |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Terrance Littletent will visit Dr. Brass School to engage with staff & students, collaborating with teachers to create a future Indigenous Dance Project |
| Wu, I-Ying |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2023-2024 |
$5,000 |
This project invites artists to train in my Daoism-inspired improvisation practice, exploring how this approach can be a training method for diverse cultural backgrounds. |
| wherewe.collective |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2023-2024 |
$1,000 |
Develop dance progressive dance workshops geared towards students age 12-18 as well as teachers. All workshops developed for the collective's upcoming sleep-away dance camp. |
| Eger, Ruby |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
The goal to engage in a month long dance training program based in Lucca, Italy. |
| Harpham, Lindsay |
Tisdale |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,500 |
To spend time developing a contemporary dance curriculum focusing on floor work, partnering, and injury prevention/cross-training. Used for company, master classes and tour. |
| Solheim, Krista |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,500 |
With this Professional Development grant I will attend and complete The Franklin Method 6-month Level 4 long-form training program (June – November 2024). |
| Chadwick, Madison |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,573 |
With this funding I’d attend the 2024 b12 dance festival in Berlin, a professional development opportunity to attend research workshops taught by international dance artists. |
| Bundon, Johanna |
Regina |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,400 |
Senior contemporary dance artist Davida Monk gifting each Johanna Bundon and Krista Solheim a solo from her anthology of new work Songs Without Words (SWW). |
Mabrouk, Rawda
École Forest Grove School |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$7,700 |
Empowering transformation and confidence through the realm of contemporary dance. |
Mookerjee, Abhiroop
Silverspring Elementary School |
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$7,300 |
Introduce street dance in Arts Ed, fostering creativity and physical expression, promoting teamwork, enhancing students' confidence, cultural awareness and creating an inclusive environment |
| Lacelle, Katherine |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2024-2025 |
$2,500 |
— |
| Parker, Kara |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
— |
| FadaDance Troupe Inc. |
Regina |
Dance |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$20,500 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Free Flow Dance Theatre Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$20,500 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Greystone Community Association |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Artists in Communities |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Greystone Heights Community Association would like to promote personal, social, and cultural well-being through multiple, cultural, dance styles. |
| New Dance Horizons Inc. |
Regina |
Dance |
Professional Arts Organizations Program |
2024-2025 |
$84,050 |
For general operating and programming support. |
| Blanchard, Abby |
Prince Albert |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2024-2025 |
$750 |
— |
| Cain, Sienna |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Prince Edward Arts Scholarship |
2024-2025 |
$1,500 |
— |
| KSAMB Dance Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
A dance, music, and spoken-word performance on nature and capitalism, workshopped in an inner-city theatre residency, combining live music, mixed ability ensemble improvisation, and outreach. |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Dance |
Building Arts Equity |
2024-2025 |
$5,000 |
The Creative Lab: a collaborative space uniting Canadian dancers to develop, challenge, and showcase hard-to-learn skills through guided creative exploration and shared understanding. |
| Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery |
Moose Jaw |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$2,000 |
This project features contemporary dance in response to Leesa Streifler's exhibition to bridge dance and visual arts while promoting community building and engagement. |
| Cottin, Lindsay |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Attend Dance Immersion/Dance for Fall North as a soloist and Artist-In-Residence under New Dance Horizons
in order to curate, program and present contemporary dance Saskatchewan. |
| EmDance |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$7,550 |
Bridging the Gap is a street dance festival that is focused on building connections between street dance communities across the prairie provinces and within Saskatchewan. |
| Alpha Kids Crew |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
Game Theory is a free community festival showcasing live deejays, street dance performances, cyphers, and Breakin' battles with its seventh edition focusing on bgirls. |
| Ba, Flany |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Space rental for recording and practice Kizomba, ensuring continuity in artistic creation after unexpected studio loss. |
| KSAMB Dance Company |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$3,054 |
A cross-discipline collaboration in scored improvisation using integrated dance to express themes of radical empowerment in the face of environmental disaster, performed at Persephone Theatre. |
| Matyushenko, Valentyna |
Grandora |
Dance |
Independent Artists Program |
2024-2025 |
$11,000 |
Choreograph and perform the folk ballet of the play by Lesia Ukrainka "The Forest Song". |
| Flamenco Borealis |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
SaskFestivals |
2024-2025 |
$7,000 |
Production and presentation of the 2025 Borealis Flamenco Festival Series consisting of two shows, a film screening, and various workshops. |
Dr. Brass School
Terrance Littletent |
Yorkton |
Dance |
Artists in Schools |
2024-2025 |
$15,643 |
Establish a Pow Wow group within our school to foster a sense of belonging and community for all students. |
| Das, Mohana |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
I am selected to perform at the biggest festival "North American Bengali Conference" at Toronto on 4th, 5th and 6th July, 2025. |
| Mookerjee, Abhiroop |
Saskatoon |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
Compete as an invited guest participant at the Calgary Hip-Hop and Street Dance Festival, while also attending street dance workshops led by pioneers of hip-hop. |
| Kembel, Kendra |
Regina |
Dance |
Microgrant Program |
2024-2025 |
$1,000 |
To adapt and rehearse the original work, To Pass Into, and present it as Double Helix at the Shu-Box Theatre in April 2025. |
| Deiter, Christine |
Balcarres |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
I would like to plan for a youth/Elder Saulteaux Tipi camp. This camp would be about Saulteaux language, culture and games. |
| Miyawata Culture Association Inc. |
Paynton |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$15,011 |
A series of Plains Indian Sign Language workshops to actively teach, reanimate Cree language learning using PISL. Live and Virtually. |
| Bird, Lianne |
Balcarres |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
Singers from Peepeekisis FN joined with Saskatchewan Gymnaestada to perform at Amsterdam World Gymaestrada Festival to promote Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action. |
| Bear's Song Collective |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$15,500 |
To provide intergenerational teachings about birch, spruce and porcupines and using their natural resources to create birch bark baskets and documenting the entire process. |
| Smith, James |
Muskoday |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
Ask younger indigenous people what they think about Art. Show them how to develop these ideas ranging from educational, spiritual experiences, hardships, beauty nature, aspirations. |
| Muskoday First Nation Community School |
Muskoday |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
We will teach youth traditional Pow-Wow drumming, singing and regalia making. We will teach youth to make Indigenous hand drums and rattles. |
| Knight, Lindsay |
Saskatoon |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$19,997 |
To mentor and then host an itwewiniyiniwak("word people") storytelling gathering based on creation story(ies) of Treaty Six Territory, including contemporary/traditional rap, comedy, poetry and songwriting. |
| Friday, Tekeyla |
Webb |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
Create the Stop-Motion Animation short film Escape from Residential School by mentoring youth to help with the production, pass on my skills and build community. |
| Big River Metis Local #59 |
Big River |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$20,000 |
The project animates community through our stories, music and connection to our land by highlighting knowledges of past to create new pathways forward. |
| Aubichon, Holly |
Regina |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$2,000 |
Develop a website, creating a map to share where traditional tattoo-artists work and build community-backed resources for future inclusion of tattooing during ceremonies and events. |
| George-Heese, Tracey |
Regina |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$10,000 |
The project will have three components; an artist residency, a 3 session workshop circles and exhibition of final pieces. For the personal residency, I will focus on on the creation of a Treaty 4 Dress that reflects on my ancestors who were signatories of the Treaty 4 document. |
| Dene High School |
La Loche |
— |
Share and Connect |
2022-2023 |
$5,492 |
Educational expedition. This project is to support and gain Indigenous knowledge through teachings and experiences. Participants will be exposed to all facades of Indigenous led projects and businesses that will encourage our Youth in taking pride of their heritage and identity as indigenous peoples. |
| Minahik Waskahigan Elementary School |
Pinehouse Lake |
— |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$32,000 |
The proposal for the residency would be the instruction of the program they will be presenting to the students as a whole class or groups. |
| Turtleford Community School |
Turtleford |
— |
Artists in Schools |
2023-2024 |
$7,850 |
Bonny Macnab will work with students from k-12 on art inspired by land based learning. She will also mentor select students. |
