Tin Gamboa is a new mom and Filipina dance artist who primarily resides on MST homelands (Vancouver). She is focused on cultivating a cross-cultural arts practice between both places she calls home, Canada and the Philippines. She recently completed her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at SFU, taught as part-time faculty at De La Salle Benilde College, and created and performed a new piece at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Koryolab 2023. She is excited to be engaging with the Vancouver dance community in various capacities as a choreographer, administrator, writer, and dancer. Devoted to being a lifelong student and artist, Tin is hopeful about the questions, juicy conversations, and creations that are born out of collective and thoughtful art-making.

Sierra Megas is an artist and arts worker of Chinese, English, and Eastern European ancestry, living as a settler on traditional, stolen, and occupied Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory. Growing up, she trained in rhythmic gymnastics before leaving movement behind to complete a degree in English Literature at Queen’s University followed by a Visual Arts Certificate at Yukon University. She found her way back to the body through community dance classes in her late-20s and has oriented her practice around Vancouver’s dance community ever since.

Sierra’s dance training is rooted in Contact Improvisation, improvisational dance, and contemporary dance. She is indebted to many beloved dance teachers and mentors whose practices inform her own, most especially: Peter Bingham, Emmalena Fredriksson, Alexa Mardon, Erika Mitsuhashi, Olivia Shaffer, and Rianne Svelnis. Her practice weaves together managing, producing, teaching, audiencing, continuous learning, and appreciating the many ways dance continues to shape her understanding of what it means to be human. Sierra performs occasionally and sometimes makes sculptures, textiles, and drawings.