Cast & Crew

Choreographer

Marynia Fekecz-Mangan (MfMdanceArtist) is a Polish-born and educated (Poznań School of Social Sciences in Poznań, Poland) dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher, and producer based in Edmonton. She has collaborated with several dance ensembles and festivals including Kokyu Studio of the Grotowski’s Institute, Calgary’s W&M Physical Theatre, Alberta Dance Festival, Edmonton’s Good Women Dance Collective, Mile Zero Dance and Harcourt House Artist Run Centre project “Transportation”, as well as individual artists and choreographers: Justine A. Chambers, Linnea Swan, Nicole Charlton Goodbrand, Davida Monk, Melissa Monteros, Wojciech Mochniej, Anna Krysiak, and Przemysław Błaszczak, among many others.

Krista Lin is a contemporary dance artist based in amiskwacîwâskahikan (colonially Edmonton). A graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Krista has studied with renowned instructors in Israel, Taiwan, and across Canada. Krista has performed across the country in works by Pam Tzeng, Matt Mackenzie, Justine Chambers, and Tedd Robinson, among others. Most recently, she performed with Good Women Dance at Dancing on The Edge and choreographed the Dora-award winning play First Métis Man of Odesa (Punctuate! Theatre). In 2022, Krista co-produced and performed in a site-specific performance with Kate Stashko, choreographed by Heidi Strauss, and presented by Brian Webb Dance Company at the defunct Army and Navy Department store in Edmonton. As a choreographer and dance instructor, Krista is an advocate of educating minds through movement, teaching dance in public schools and private institutions in Alberta, Ontario, and Taiwan. With a diploma in Arts and Cultural Management from MacEwan University, Krista is currently the Administrative Manager with CRIPSiE. She is a mom to Andy, Lily, and dog-child Louie.

Kate Stashko is a dance artist currently based in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan / Edmonton. She has danced with artists including Peggy Baker, Justine A. Chambers, Mélanie Demers, Marynia Fekecz-Mangan, Mile Zero Dance, Lin Snelling, and Heidi Strauss, and was a member of Good Women Dance Collective from 2012-2022. In 2016, she co-founded KnK Collective with Krista Lin. Kate has performed throughout Canada, including collaborations with musicians, poets and spoken word artists, and she loves travelling to train around the world. After studying at the School of Alberta Ballet, Kate graduated from the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She is currently completing her Master’s degree in physiotherapy, collaborating on projects with MFM Dance, and remounting basin, a collaboration with sound designer Raylene Campbell, to be presented by Mile Zero Dance in January 2025.

Kate teaches dance and Pilates, and she is an avid cyclist, climate activist, gardener and coffee drinker.

Trent Crosby is an Edmonton based artist and arts enabler with a specialty in activating non-traditional performance spaces. A graduate of Grant MacEwan’s Theatre Production program and The Banff Centre for the Arts, Trent has spent the last 13years as a Lighting Designer, Production Manager, TechnicalDirector, and Entertainment Programmer.

Alison Kause is a founding member of the Good Women Dance Collective.

She works with the collective and independently, and is a teacher with Edmonton Public Schools. Alison’s dance experience is based in several years of studio, Cechetti, ballet and modern dance technique to the Good Women Dance Collective.

She is a graduate of the Grant MacEwan Dance Program and the School of Contemporary Dance at SFU, as well as the Education program at the University of Alberta.

Alison has trained and performed across Canada and been inspired by work with local and international colleagues. She has worked with Justine Chambers, Melanie Kloetzel, Peggy Baker, Shasha Ivanochko, Melanie Demers, Mile Zero Dance, Heidi Bunting, Brian Webb, Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy, AM Choreography, Krista Posyniak, Richard Lee, Isabelle Rousseau, Katherine Semchuk, Jessica McMann, Marynia Fecekz and GWD Collective artists. Alison has performed in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver and Edmonton.

Alison is inspired by the challenge of finding an intersection between being an artist, mother and teacher – these roles constantly demand attention, inform one another and provide diverse perspectives.

Alida Kendell is a dance artist, teacher and choreographer in Amiskwacîwâskahikan. She has been a collective artist with GWDC since 2009 and during this time has been shaped, challenged and encouraged by its programming, its artists and the communities GWDC engages with. She has been most influenced by the creative processes of Melenie Demers, Peggy Baker and Sasha Klienplatz. She is curious about the process of enabling physical change through introspection and play, and currently practices durational improvisations that take her further away from and closer to herself.

Molly McDermott is a dance artist, gratefully performing, creating, and teaching movement in Amiskwaciwâskahikan, colonially know as Edmonton. Upon graduating from Grant MacEwan College, followed by Simon Fraser University she received a BFA in dance in 2007. She has since interpreted work by a variety of inspiring artists and companies including, Kokoro Dance, Co. Erasga Dance, Les Productions Figlio, Mascall Dance, Billy Marchenski, Deanna Peters, and Justine Chambers, among others.

Molly has presented her own choreography at Vines Art Festival, 12 Minutes Max., Nextfest, Good Women’s Creative Incubator, and the Magpie Collection. She is the recipient of the Good Women New Work Award 2024 and had the pleasure of curating the dance presentation at Expanse Movement Arts Festival this past March 2023. Molly is thrilled to be joining GWDC this season as a collective artist and looks forward to future collaboration and expanding her practice amongst other brilliant artists.

Alongside dance, Molly is a mother of two small humans and welcomes the gentle chaos that comes with balancing motherhood and everything else.

Deviani Andrea (she/her) is a dance artist based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan / Edmonton. Originally from Mexico City, she holds a BA in Literature from the University of Mexico and studied at the Mexico City’s Dance School and Ema Pulido’s Dance Studio. Since landing in Canada, Deviani has worked as performer, instructor, and choreographer with many local dance and theatre companies such as the Citadel Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Skirts Afire, Mile Zero Dance, Fringe Festival, Found Festival, Alberta Musical Theatre Company, among others. She has been a Good Woman since 2022.

She is certified in Trauma Informed Care and as a Kaeja Elevations teacher; has trained at Decidedly Jazz Dance (Calgary), and her independent work has been kindly supported by the Edmonton Arts Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and The CanDance Network.

She likes biking in the summer and skiing in the winter, brewing kombucha, and consuming content in different languages.
Catch her on Instagram at @deviani.andrea

Lin Snelling is a dancer and professor living in Amiskwaciwâskahikan on Treaty 6 territory whose
artistic practice brings the qualities of improvisation into dance, theatre, writing, visual art and
somatic practice. She toured the world with Carbone 14 and worked with many improvisation
ensembles. She teaches dance, experiential anatomy and composition at the University of Alberta
where she is also Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre. She recently performed in the Joshua Tree
as part of the BWDC Summer Season. 2019 she received a McCalla Professorship for a new
collective creation, A Sounding Line. Her recent dance collaborations include Far Away and Personal, a
dance film with musician/composer Michael Reinhart and ENTRANCES with writer David
Gagnon Walker and multimedia designer Tori Morrison from Strange Victory Performance.
Rewriting Distance, her on-going research collaboration with Belgian dance dramaturg Guy Cools has
been performed in 7 countries and 14 different cities www.rewritingdistance.com

Jordan Pelz is a believer in the transformative power of sound and movement. His mission is to share his love of music with the community through the art of DJing.  He is a graduate of the Grant MacEwan music program and also hosts dance gatherings here in Edmonton as Earthly Dance Medicine. IG @eathlydancemedicine

Dorrie Deutschendorf is a rarity in the world of theatre and dance. For over 20 years she has been a Lighting Designer, Dancer, Choreographer, Dance Teacher, Stage Manager and Theatre Technician. Having worked on productions from both sides of the stage has allowed her to produce unique and supportive visions for over 30 dance artists and directors in the Edmonton area including Shay Kuebler and Kate Ryan. Currently, Dorrie is Lighting Designer/Technical Director for Ballet Edmonton and the Brian Webb Dance Company.

Mac Brock (he/him) is your friendly neighbourhood queer prairie playwright and producer, as well as the current Managing Producer with Common Ground Arts Society. As an administrator and consultant, he has supported organizations like Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, the Edmonton Heritage Council, Concrete Theatre, and more. His plays Boy Trouble, Tracks, Dry, and Roughhouse have been on stages across the prairies. In 2024, he received the Legacy Sterling Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre in Edmonton. Check out more at macbrock.ca!

Galen Hite (any pronouns) is a queer theatre technician and stage manager based in Amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton. Galen has been delighting in dance since they first began running sound for dance shows over ten years ago, and can’t wait to share these new piece with everyone. They wants to thank their partner, friends, family, and cat Paintbrush for always being there for them. Notable recent projects include all these things collide inside of me (Good Women Dance Collective), Rapunzel (Alberta Musical Theatre Company) and Brick Shithouse (fenceless theatre). Enjoy the show!