ESIE MENSAH – Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher

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A Revolution of Love

Esie Mensah Creations in association with Soul Pepper Theatre presents A Revolution of Love.

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Shades

A Dora-nominated production, re-examining the wound that is shadism & how it inflicts on the Black community.

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Award-Winning Choreographer

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Movement Director

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Keynote Speaker

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Dancer & Teacher

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Founder of Esie Mensah Creations

Esie is a Multifaceted Artist

As an award winning choreographer, dancer, movement director and TEDxToronto speaker, Esie brings her mastery in storytelling to audiences as diverse as her experience.

Esie is committed to exploring personal narratives of her blackness, belonging and Ghanaian heritage, her company Esie Mensah Creations created 3 original works; Akoma, ZAYO and the Dora-nominated Shades.

Esie’s capacity as an artist keeps expanding as she continues touching communities that surround her worldwide! Continue Reading…

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If you are attentive enough, God places signs on the horizon for you to see and those signs empower your intuition… if you choose to be attentive to them it can change your life. That’s what happened when I chose to dance… it changed my life

– Esie Mensah, Founder of Esie Mensah Creations & Black Stars Collective

Brands Esie Has Worked With

See more of Esie Mensah’s industry credits and brands Esie has worked with

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My skin was "too dark" for my profession, so I changed the story!

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Esie Mensah Creations

Original Productions

Esie has produced several productions under company Esie Mensah Creations. Esie Mensah Creations is a vibrant dance and theatre company committed to creating work that reflects her community. Under the direction of Esie Mensah, this company has been operating for under 2 years and bringing something new to the world of storytelling.

Esie is committed to bringing a new fresh genre of dance into the industry. Afrofusion is her own unique style of dance that includes movements from Traditional and Contemporary African, Commercial, Urban and Contemporary styles.

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SHADES

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ZAYO

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Esie Mensah's Zayo wears its ambition a bit more visibly and feels a bit further down the development path.
Kathleen SmithNow Toronto

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Mensah blends her personal movement vocabularies of traditional and contemporary African dance with urban and contemporary styles, carving out her own brand of Afrofusion dance.
Kymberley FelthamMy Entertainment World

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Mensah has a reputation as one of the city's boldest choreographers... We don't believe a performance quite like this has ever been staged in Toronto
She Does The City

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The work is a powerful and visually striking exploration into the discrimination between lighter- and darker-skinned people within communities of colour known as shadeism. A stunning piece of dance and theatre,
The Dance Current