Brittney Canda
Film Director & Dancer
À Propos
Brittney Canda is a professional contemporary dancer, choreographer, and teacher currently living and working in Montréal. She was classically trained at a highly competitive dance school in Calgary in her youth, and earned a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University in Montreal as a young adult. Brittney is currently a company member of Kyra Jean Green’s, “Trip the Light Fantastic”, and tours with dark-pop musical act, Sheenah Ko. She has performed and presented video work in Festivals: Articien, Bouge D’ici, Cinedanse, Festival Quartier Danse, Montréal Fringe Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Pop Montreal, Sabstock, Shigawake Music Festival, and Sled Island Calgary.
Brittney has a passion for sharing knowledge and and spreading the joy of movement. With 7 years of teaching experience, Brittney instructs contemporary dance, improvisation, jazz, ballet, partnering, tap, musical theatre, and conditioning to students of varying levels at several dance schools. Brittney’s dance classes encourage body positivity, practice movement safety, harness bravery, and exercise freedom of expression
Artistically, Brittney has a strong affinity for and connections within alternative pop culture, particularly the indie-rock and indie-pop music community in Canada. She strives to create work in the dance medium that harnesses what she loves about the work that is made in this particular art scene; accessibility without dilution of content, collaboration, and camaraderie. This interest in collaboration has lead her to involve herself in interdisciplinary experimentation with musicians, photographers, film makers, visual artists, poets, and performance artists. Brittney’s choreography is technically challenging, quirky, expressive, and dynamic. She has created and performed original work for stage and video with: The Barr Brothers, Wintersleep, Thor Harris (Thor and Friends), Calum Graham, Sheenah Ko, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Tambour, Catherine Dong, Jon Davis, Tara McGowan Ross, Sab and the Family Band, and many other inspiring Canadian artists.
Contact
- brittneycanda.com
- https://www.brittneycanda.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/brittcanda/