Artist in Residence - Fall for Dance North 2025
The FFDN Artist-in-Residence is a newly expanded, paid, one year position that offers mid-career professional artists full scope to develop professional skills across:
Choreography
Curation
Community Engagement
Housed within an international festival, the program uniquely offers the Artist-in-Residence the opportunity to contextualize their work in the current global landscape. They will build community across festival programming and expand their artistic following.
“Esie Mensah is one of Toronto’s most extraordinary choreographer’s…
and an artist who inspires me deeply. She weaves together many styles of movement into Afrofusion to tell beautifully universal stories and builds powerful community in her creative process. The Artist-in-Residence position is intended to further develop the skills necessary for a sustainable career in dance. Working across choreography, curation and community engagement is what has allowed my career to develop and I want to pay it forward by giving others the opportunity to work across the same spectrum, but in their own way.”
-Robert Binet, FFDN Artistic Director & Co-CEO
Signature Program 1: Afrofusion
October 15-18th 2025
Bluma Appel Theatre at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
Curated by Esie Mensah & Fall for Dance North
Generously supported by Leading Donors Renette and David Berman
AFROFUSION: Signature Programme 1 brings together powerful elements of Traditional and Contemporary West African Dance, Street Dance, Afro-Latin Dance, Contemporary and Modern Dance, Jazz and Salsa across three distinct works. AFROFUSION will be an emotional and exhilarating journey of human experience told through dance forms practiced and reimagined by global artists of the African diaspora.
