Join Candace Kumar and host, Dainty Smith, for an hour filled with dance, discoveries and connection.

Candace Kumar is a Filipino/Indo-Fijian dance artist based in Toronto. She has trained in ballet, contemporary, jazz-funk, hip hop, folk dance and more. She specializes in contemporizing cultural dance forms to reimagine traditional culture from the diaspora. Candace collaborates with musicians such as A La Una and Han Han as a performer and choreographer, creating Filipino-contemporary works.

Candace will be sharing a series of Pangalay dances. Pangalay is the fingernail dance performed by communities in the Sulu Archipelago in the southern Philippines. The movements are slow and meditative, imitating the ocean currents in the Sulu Sea. Participants are invited to join in and connect with breath, slowly moving through the body as if in the ocean.

This is a FREE series presented by TO Live and Nova Dance.

TUES NOV 21 @ 12PM
Greenwin Theatre, Meridian Arts Centre
In-Person

WED NOV 22 @ 3PM
Lower Lobby of Meridian Hall
In-Person and Online Livestream