CLEaR Forum 2025/2026

Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴 (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian dance artist and choreographer, whose training spans a wide range of styles, including contemporary, breaking, hip-hop, and ballet. She gravitates toward narratives of human desire, identity, and relationships, often drawing deeply from personal experience.

Sangeeta Raju is an Indo-Canadian dance artist based in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki. As a dancer, choreographer, and arts educator Sangeeta seeks to disseminate South Asian ways of knowing through contemporary dance works. Her main practices are the Indian Classical dance styles of Odissi and Kuchipudi. These dance styles emphasize technique, storytelling, and rhythm. As a complement to her training and choreographic practice, Sangeeta also practices Yoga, Pilates, Contemporary dance technique, and the South Indian martial art form of Kalaripayattu. As a racialized dance artist and arts educator, Sangeeta seeks to uplift the BIPOC community and reclaim her own cultural practices.

Inspired by the intelligence of the human body, reg rose’s work is somatically led. Having a lifetime dance practice across many forms, traditions and styles, reg’s presence and quality spans that of a multidimensional embodiment. Their work is rooted in the creative improvisation teachings and legacy of Jerry Granelli, the somatic wisdom of many intersecting cultures and life ways, and the symbolic languages of The Mysteries. The fusion of these threads, woven with contemporary dance technique, shape a dynamic and expansive vision for creative process and works of art. reg’s practices and work are offerings upon the altar for collective liberation. They serve the unseen forces that move us collectively in hopes to model, through dance, new worlds to inhabit.

Nathaniel "Natorious" Dooks is a Breaker, Hip Hop dancer and emerging choreographer based out of Kjipuktuk (Dartmouth) NS. He has been battling, performing and teaching for over 15 years. He strives to create a strong and connected Breaking and street dance community as an event organizer. Look for his event "Don't Stop my Rock' for future battles and jams.

Madhulika Handoo is a movement artist, facilitator, and storyteller whose creative language emerges from the vibrant pulse of Bollywood and evolves through theatre, improvisation, and somatic exploration. Beginning her artistic journey in India, Madhulika’s choreography has long drawn from the emotional charge and visual storytelling of Bollywood rhythms that once filled crowded Delhi studios and community stages, now transformed into reflective, embodied dialogues in her current practice.
Her artistic inquiry centers on embodiment and somatic awareness: how deep listening to the body can generate new movement vocabularies and evoke emotional resonance in choreography. Rooted in curiosity about presence and sensation, Madhulika explores how the body remembers how it holds stories, histories, and transitions, particularly those shaped by migration and belonging.
Drawing from her work teaching Bollywood freestyle at House of Eights Dance Studio, facilitating community dance programs for newcomer children with YMCA Centre for Immigrant Programs, and Halifax Dance, and performing interpretive works for performing arts collectives, Madhulika’s choreography weaves together cinematic expressiveness, mindful presence, and personal storytelling.
Through her creative practice, she seeks to bridge the outer energy of performance with the inner intimacy of awareness, where movement becomes both a conversation and a healing process. Her work invites audiences and participants alike to inhabit emotion through motion, allowing stories to be not only seen but deeply felt.

Jen Hum is a Toronto-based movement artist navigating the spaces between cultural memory, embodied inquiry, and societal terrains. Her curiosity has resulted in solo projects and opportunities to work with a diverse collection of individuals and groups including Fujiwara Dance Inventions, Tracey Norman Dance, Redsnow Collective, Polynomials, J9 Dance Projects, and others. She has performed across festivals and platforms including Dance: Made in Canada, Nuit Blanche, and The Reel Asian Film Festival etc. Current explorations include excavations of space, place, and ancestry with Returning River Collective and the weaving of aerial and ground-based dance forms with JrifterS Collective.

Angie Cheng is a Montreal-based artist in contemporary dance. Collaborative creation processes ground her ongoing research in performance, investigating the liminal space between creative process and performance event. The embodied and specific understandings that arise from these investigations shape her current questions and engagements both in her own work and with others. She supports the projects she is involved in through her practice of deep listening and feedback through gathering perspectives as a way to facilitate group conversations. She is also an advocate and has been actively engaged in the conversations of inclusivity, diversity and accessibility, as well as participating in, co-leading collective actions and activities. It’s not just what we make as artists but how. She is committed to ongoing learning and practicing consent, respect and accessibility: care in how we are together in all that she is engaged in.

Sara Coffin is an award-winning dance artist, choreographer, improviser, dance educator and Co-Artistic Director of Mocean Dance.

Sara received the Nova Scotia Established Artist Award from Arts NS in 2018, completed her MFA in Choreography and Performance at Smith College in Northampton, MA (2014), BSc. in Kinesiology from Dalhousie University (2005) and BFA in dance at Simon Fraser University’s School for Contemporary Arts (2003). She has ‘taught’ or facilitated the creative process in an organized construct in the Five College Consortium (Smith College and Hampshire College, Massachusetts), NSCAD University, and Holland College School of Performing Arts (Summerside, PEI). Sara’s work has been presented in many prominent dance venues across Canada including; Dancing on the Edge, Magnetic North/Canada Dance Festival, ROMP!, Dance in Vancouver, and across the Atlantic Provinces.

The process of inquiry, navigating the unknown, and nurturing emergent vocabulary is the main catalyst in her personal choreographic investigation. Sara has sought mentorship and provocation throughout her career, engaging in choreographic labs, workshops, and round-table discussions centralized to the creative gesture. Her studies have led her across the globe dissecting and being inspired by some of the dance field’s most stimulating creators. A list of her study highlights and mentors include: Paul Andre Fortier, Marten Spangbërg, Dana Gingras, Jennifer Mascall, Susie Burpee, Tedd Robinson, Project CPR with Claire French, the Montreal Danse Choreographic Lab with Kathy Casey, Larry Lavender, Philip Szporer, Donna Faye Burchfield (ADF/ Hollins), Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, and Mike Vargas at Smith College (USA), and the Banff Dramaturgy Program with Ruth Little (UK) and Liz Lerman (USA).

Currently her interests within a making practice centre around: stamina and sustainability, permeability and legibility, the poetics of failure, and courage sought through vulnerability. Fundamentally, Coffin continually notices that she is also the happiest in wild spaces.