Our Staff

Yvonne Ng graduated with a BFA Honours from York University (Toronto, Canada). From 1994 to 2005, she was the co-Artistic Director of Series 8:08 and since 2005, she remains the sole Artistic Director. Yvonne is a dancer, choreographer, presenter, arts educator and also artistic director of tiger princess dance projects (since 1996). Yvonne is a certified Open Source Forms (Stephanie Skura) and Ashtanga Yoga teacher. Her company's repertoire includes works choreographed by Ng and commissioned works. She has created roles for choreographers such as Bill James, José Navas, Menaka Thakkar, Peter Chin, Dominique Dumais, Kevin O'Day and Tedd Robinson. tiger princess dance projects has toured their repertoire in Singapore, Ireland, Germany, Australia, China, Italy and across Canada. She has also been commissioned to create works for Toronto Dance Theatre, York University and Ryerson University. Yvonne, of Peranakan Chinese descent, was born and raised in Singapore and moved to Canada in the mid 80's.

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Yves Candau has a background in science and was doing a PhD in Cognitive Sciences when he discovered dance. Gradually his interest shifted from the abstract to a more embodied research, which he has been passionately pursuing ever since. As a movement artist he is fascinated by how internal dynamics of mind and body give rise to manifested external movement; and aims to share his fascination with others through performance and teaching. As an interpreter Yves has worked with a number of choreographers in Toronto: Rebecca Todd, Eryn Dace Trudell, Malgorzata Nowacka, Newton Moraes, Holly Small, Kathleen Rea, and most frequently Peter Chin, for whom he has had the pleasure to dance over a span of 10 years and six different pieces. Yves has taught Contact Improvisation since 2001, giving classes and workshops in France, Italy, Germany, Canada and the USA. He is also an overtone singer and a teacher of the Alexander Technique.

Tracey Norman is an independent dance artist based in Toronto with a focus on creating interdisciplinary work. She splits her time between choreographing, teaching, interpreting and facilitating dance. As a choreographer, Tracey's work has been presented by many Canadian organizations including, DanceWorks, Dance Ontario, Canadian Children's Dance Theatre, York Dance Ensemble, Season Finale of Series 8:08, and Kinetic Studio. Her work has been described as "...refreshing and original" (the Globe and Mail)

Tracey has had the pleasure of performing in works by other independent choreographers including recent works by Susan Lee, Meagan O'Shea, Darcey Callison, and Jesse Dell. She holds her MFA in dance from York University and is currently a part-time faculty member in York's Dance Department. She is the Alternative Technique Class Program Manager and Outreach Coordinator for Series 8:08. Tracey works as an outside eye to several artists and teaches dance at local studios.

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"A marvelous dancer with wonderful control" (Globe and Mail), Tanya Crowder has worked with many talented choreographers as a professional dance artist. Tanya spent four years with Newton Moraes Dance Theatre and close to eight seasons with Kaeja d'Dance. She is currently a company dancer with Sinha Danse in Montreal. Tanya has worked with Claudia Moore, Lin Snelling, Eryn Dace Trudell, Darcey Callison, Denise Duric, Anh Nguyen, Kate Alton, Pam Johnson, Blue Mouth Inc., Allison Cummings among other great choreographers. Crowder's choreographic works have been described as a "tour de force" (Toronto Star).

Tanya is a Program Manager for Series 8:08 CPW, a dance teacher and administrates her own independent projects through HOWDARESHE Productions. HDS produced Falling to Grace, a DanceWorks CoWorks Series event; an evening of solo dance featuring herself and Julia Sasso in May 2008 and co-produced Love You Longtime Collective's DWCW Series Event no guarantees / no refunds in 2010. Tanya is also the Artistic Director of Dance Matters Dance Productions and is the Assistant Box Office Supervisor at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Cara Spooner has been involved in performance related projects as a dancer, choreographer, designer and curator. She has presented work in Toronto's Nuit Blanche, XPACE Cultural Centre, The Harbourfront Centre's HATCH Emerging Performance Project, Pleasure Dome, The Art Gallery of Mississauga, The Festival of New Dance in St. John's Newfoundland and Stromereien 11 in Zürich Switzerland. She has worked with Diane Borsato, Jess Dobkin, Daniel Cockburn, Robin Lasser/Adrienne Pao, Sky Fairchild-Waller and Alicia Grant. Her interest in site-specific work and subjective mapping has lead her to create interventionist, installation-based performances which have been performed in abandoned factories, alley ways, parks, libraries, private homes and public eating establishments.

Brittany Duggan is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, teacher and writer in the Toronto area. Choreographic credits include "She Moves She" (2011) for the McMaster University Dance Company, "Mayfly: stage subimago" (2011) for Creative Republic and "mountain girl" (2010) with dance artist Susan Kendal for summer festivals in Toronto. As a performer she has worked with Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Darcey Callison, Jasmyn Fyffe as well as Thomas and Guinevere. Brittany is a graduate of York University's dance program and recently co-produced, choreographed and performed in Scienceography: dances of physiology, entomoly and psychology, for the 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival. She is Production and Office Coordinator at The Dance Current magazine and writes on a freelance basis throughout Toronto.

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