Summer intensive

Rayna started dancing at a young age with Jazz, Ballet, and Tap. In 2018, Rayna started dancing with Illfx, where she was introduced to a variety of street styles, including house and locking.  In 2022, Rayna took her first krump class and has been devoted ever since! After a year of training in krump, she battled into the Calgary Krump crew Empirical Freedom. She has also learned from many innovators and educators in the style and has battled in Montreal and Hawaii, as well as in Calgary. In addition to training with Empirical Freedom and Illfx, Rayna also spent this past year training with YYC Contemporary. Through this, she has been learning about many aspects of Contemporary such as floor work and partner work.

Kyrsten Blair, a versatile artist, engages in diverse creative realms such as choreography, movement education, devised theatre, yoga, meditation,production, and performance. Actively contributing to arts, education, and

community, her recent credits include collaborations with Zero To One Collective,

Springboard Performance, Crossings Youth Dance Company, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, East Side Dance Festival, Calgary Pride, and the National End-of-Life Doula Association. With a rich portfolio spanning dance, theatre, and opera companies, universities, and creative residencies, Kyrsten has been a creative force for over 30 years, sparking innovation in school boards like CBE, CCSD,

Private, and Charter. Beyond her artistic pursuits, she integrates a holistic approach through Contemplative End-of-Life training, aiming to unify art and service in her roles as an artist, practitioner, and death doula.

Erin Feltham has been a dancer, teacher and studio owner in Calgary for over 25 years. A graduate of the University of Calgary Dance Program, she was fortunate to study under many faculty members including Davida Monk, Michelle Moss, Melissa Monteros and Wojtek Mochneij. She has primarily studied contemporary dance, ballet and acrobatics but has also trained in jazz, West African and tap dance. She performed in several works in Dance Montage, Alberta Dance Explosions and Mainstage before moving on to a professional teaching career.

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In addition to her BA in Contemporary Dance from the University of Calgary, she also holds her Associate Diploma in Modern Theatre with the ISTD and is certified Module 1 & 2 with Acrobatic Arts. She is also level two certified with Spectacle Blue for aerial dance, is PBT certified, and has completed her level two teacher training with Perfect Form Physiotherapy.

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She has been the owner and artistic director of Invitation To Dance for the past 17 years and has been passionate about creating a dance training space that is fun, inclusive and professional. She believes in using dance as a tool to raise confident, disciplined and successful kids.

Rufi Oswaldo’s hope is to inspire reflection, gratitude, and joy through dance. And for over twenty years, he has done that through a richly multi-disciplinary and stylistically eclectic dance career that spans contemporary dance, “Latin” and standard dancesport, and Cuban traditional and social dance styles. Currently, he serves as the Artistic Director of Dancers’ Studio West in Calgary, AB and conducts research as a PhD Candidate of Performance Studies at York University. Through his experience across multiple genres and through the depth of his study, Oswaldo hopes to make greater space for and serve the diversity of dance communities that practice together in Alberta.

Christa grew up dancing in Calgary and fell in love from the beginning. Starting at age two, Christa trained and competed in various disciplines such as Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Ballet, Contemporary and more. She has taken classes in professional settings in Vancouver, Montreal, New York, and Los Angeles. Currently, she holds certifications for Acrobatic Arts Module 1 and the International Dance Teaching Standards Module 1.

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After graduating, Christa trained and competed with illFX, a local hip hop company, where she was able to experience and learn about hip hop culture and broaden her view of the world of dance after high school. Then, from 2019 to 2022 Christa was a part of EnCorps Dance Collective, a contemporary company in Calgary. She danced, choreographed, and sat on the board as treasurer during her time with them. Christa currently teaches dance at Kor Danceworks in Calgary where she gets to share her love of dance with students of all ages.