Christopher House + Manuel Roque + Ethan Colangelo

Ethan Colangelo (he/him) was born and raised in Toronto where he began his training at Canada’s National Ballet School and Elite Danceworx. He is an alumnus of The Juilliard School where he received the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreographic Promise. He was appointed Choreographic Associate of The National Ballet of Canada in 2023. Most recently, Ethan has created new works for Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Ballet BC, BODYTRAFFIC, Whim W’Him Contemporary Dance, Ballet Edmonton, and the National Ballet. He was also one of nine choreographers selected worldwide for the Copenhagen International Choreography Competition in 2018 and 2021. At the competition in 2021, his piece recurrence won the Audience Choice Award along with the DAF Production Prize. Ethan has also taught and made new creations for educational institutions such as The Juilliard School, The Ailey School, Arts Umbrella Dance Company, Springboard Danse Montréal, Nuova X, DAF in Rome, and MOVE NYC. He has presented his own work at Orsolina28, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, The Queen Elizabeth Theatre, APAP, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, The Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Born and raised in St. John’s, NL, Christopher House is a Canadian choreographer, performer, educator, curator, and writer. He was resident choreographer and a leading dancer with Toronto Dance Theatre from 1979-2020, the last 26 years as Artistic Director. He created over 60 works for TDT and has collaborated with many other Canadian and international companies and artists, including The National Ballet of Canada, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballet Gulbenkian, Ballet BC, The Hidden Cameras, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Jordan Tannahill, and Deborah Hay. He continues his performance practice in works such as his solo New Tricks, performed across Canada from 2023 to 2025. Christopher has taught for many arts organizations and training institutions, including the National Ballet School, Toronto Metropolitan University, The School of Contemporary Dance (Winnipeg), and the Juilliard School (New York). He currently teaches composition at Dance Arts in Toronto. He has received many awards and honours including the Muriel Sherrin Award for International Achievement in Dance in 2009, was made an honorary doctor of letters by Memorial University in 2010 and received the Silver Ticket Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts in 2012. In 2019, CBC Arts named him as one of 69 Canadian artists who has shaped our country’s rich LGBTQ history. He is a Member of the Order of Canada.

Trained in circus, theatre and music, Manuel Roque has been working in contemporary dance as a performer, choreographer and teacher since 2005. His interest in the body in movement is based on the notions of integrity, curiosity, attention, benevolence to others and to oneself, and generosity in physical engagement. His research reflects political and social concerns that are also poetic, formal, or sensory. His approach tends to prioritize process over performance, and places practice and exercise at the heart of the work.