Jasmyn Fyffe - Founder & Artistic Director
Jasmyn Fyffe is making her mark on the Toronto dance scene as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. A choreographer described as “Alvin Ailey meets street dancer,” (Allan Ferguson – Director: Nelly Furtado Music Video), her work is created within a movement style that is an eclectic blend of her versatile training background while maintaining a strong contemporary foundation. “She’s a young artist whose body of work is developing in a style all her own.” (Sway magazine – Anya Wassenberg)
She founded her company Jasmyn Fyffe Dance in Sept 2007 “Some of the best dancers in Toronto” (Fashion Studio 7- Al Mon) and they have produced two successful season shows with Dance Works CoWorks in 2010 and 2012. In addition, Fyffe has been on the jury for the Ontario Arts Council Dance Initiatives Program, Dora Mavor Awards in the dance division and for the Dance Matters Series: From the Frying Pan. She is the recipient of three travel grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Access and Career Development Grant from the Ontario Arts Council, and her company has received one creation and three production grants from the Toronto and Ontario Arts Council’s.
Fyffe has been commissioned by Pivotal Motion Dance Theatre, Wish Opera, Cawthra Park Secondary School, Agincourt Pentecostal Church, Cathedral Productions, Obsidian Theatre, Dramatic Change Youth Theatre, Oakwood Collegiate Institute and Copper Coin Arts Association to name a few. One of her most recent commissions “Pulse” was described as having “all the elements of a Broadway hit musical.” (audience member Omar Al-Salmadi). Her most recent commission was Ballet Jorgen’s solo’s and duets choreographic exchange and Earl Haig Secondary School (Claude Watson). In addition to this, she has created 11 dance works on her company and has co-created four works with other local choreographers throughout the span of her career. She has presented work in “Into the Roots. . .Beyond the Leaves” Sponsored by TD Bank in collaboration with Vivine Scarlett (2011), “Warfare” a DanceWorks CoWorks Series Event (2010), Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival (2009), Irie Music Dance Festival (2009 & 2011), Project Dance Toronto (2009), Bazaar (2010-2012), Dance Ontario DanceWeekend (2011), Choreographer’s Ball (2011) and Fresh Blood 2009 and 2010 (The Chimera Project); her solo “Indentity” presented in the 2010 showcase, got her an honorable mention by Artistic Director Malgorzata Nowacka.
As an independent dancer, Jasmyn has performed in the touring musical UMOJA and has danced for Grammy Award winning artist Nelly Furtado. In addition she has worked with: Hanna Kiel, Red Sky Performance, Artists in Motion, Dance Migration, Scott Fordham, KasheDance, Calu Entertainments, Linda Garneau and international musical sensation Kirk Franklin. In addition, in the summer of 2011 Fyffe performed in two fringe festival shows (Catalyst and Jasmine Graham), the Dance made in Canada Festival, and the Labspace art installation “In-Memory.’ She just returned from Japan, NYC and Seattle WA touring with a ‘Pop Idols’ show for the Booking House Agency. Jasmyn was recently nominated for the first ever Young Center Dance Awards, she sits on the faculty for the Toronto Pre-professional Scholarship Dance Program (Lindsay Ritter) and was delighted to be a guest choreographer and Mentor for Dare to Dance 2012. She also just returned from dancing in Washington DC at an inaugural event. She is currently co-choreographing and producing a dance-theatre show “Gimme One Riddim” with choreographer Natasha Powell and she will also be producing a show this June with her company in Montreal for the Montreal Fringe Festival. “Fyffe is an indisputably talented performer and dancemaker,” Kathleen Smith, The Dance Current Magazine.
She founded her company Jasmyn Fyffe Dance in Sept 2007 “Some of the best dancers in Toronto” (Fashion Studio 7- Al Mon) and they have produced two successful season shows with Dance Works CoWorks in 2010 and 2012. In addition, Fyffe has been on the jury for the Ontario Arts Council Dance Initiatives Program, Dora Mavor Awards in the dance division and for the Dance Matters Series: From the Frying Pan. She is the recipient of three travel grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Access and Career Development Grant from the Ontario Arts Council, and her company has received one creation and three production grants from the Toronto and Ontario Arts Council’s.
Fyffe has been commissioned by Pivotal Motion Dance Theatre, Wish Opera, Cawthra Park Secondary School, Agincourt Pentecostal Church, Cathedral Productions, Obsidian Theatre, Dramatic Change Youth Theatre, Oakwood Collegiate Institute and Copper Coin Arts Association to name a few. One of her most recent commissions “Pulse” was described as having “all the elements of a Broadway hit musical.” (audience member Omar Al-Salmadi). Her most recent commission was Ballet Jorgen’s solo’s and duets choreographic exchange and Earl Haig Secondary School (Claude Watson). In addition to this, she has created 11 dance works on her company and has co-created four works with other local choreographers throughout the span of her career. She has presented work in “Into the Roots. . .Beyond the Leaves” Sponsored by TD Bank in collaboration with Vivine Scarlett (2011), “Warfare” a DanceWorks CoWorks Series Event (2010), Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival (2009), Irie Music Dance Festival (2009 & 2011), Project Dance Toronto (2009), Bazaar (2010-2012), Dance Ontario DanceWeekend (2011), Choreographer’s Ball (2011) and Fresh Blood 2009 and 2010 (The Chimera Project); her solo “Indentity” presented in the 2010 showcase, got her an honorable mention by Artistic Director Malgorzata Nowacka.
As an independent dancer, Jasmyn has performed in the touring musical UMOJA and has danced for Grammy Award winning artist Nelly Furtado. In addition she has worked with: Hanna Kiel, Red Sky Performance, Artists in Motion, Dance Migration, Scott Fordham, KasheDance, Calu Entertainments, Linda Garneau and international musical sensation Kirk Franklin. In addition, in the summer of 2011 Fyffe performed in two fringe festival shows (Catalyst and Jasmine Graham), the Dance made in Canada Festival, and the Labspace art installation “In-Memory.’ She just returned from Japan, NYC and Seattle WA touring with a ‘Pop Idols’ show for the Booking House Agency. Jasmyn was recently nominated for the first ever Young Center Dance Awards, she sits on the faculty for the Toronto Pre-professional Scholarship Dance Program (Lindsay Ritter) and was delighted to be a guest choreographer and Mentor for Dare to Dance 2012. She also just returned from dancing in Washington DC at an inaugural event. She is currently co-choreographing and producing a dance-theatre show “Gimme One Riddim” with choreographer Natasha Powell and she will also be producing a show this June with her company in Montreal for the Montreal Fringe Festival. “Fyffe is an indisputably talented performer and dancemaker,” Kathleen Smith, The Dance Current Magazine.
Trudy Lee Gayle - General Manager
Trudy Lee Gayle is thrilled to be working alongside Jasmyn Fyffe and is currently assisting in the remount of Pulse for the 2013 Montreal Fringe Festival. As General Manager, she has also had the pleasure of helping to mount INTERLOCK (2012), the highly successful 2nd annual full-length evening of work presented jointly by Jasmyn Fyffe Dance and as a DanceWorks Co Works series event.
She is a graduate of York University's Bachelor of Fine Arts program with Honours in Dance and The Ailey School's Independent Study Program in New York, NY. In addition to her extensive training in Ballet and Contemporary techniques, she has also trained in and taught Bronze Syllabus (American) Latin & Ballroom, in Toronto and NYC.
While she thoroughly enjoys teaching adults, some of her most rewarding work has been teaching children through Dancing Classrooms, an Arts in Education program fostering social development through Latin & Ballroom dance. This program utilizes the carefully crafted Dulaine Method created by Pierre Dulaine. Trudy has had the privilege of teaching this program both across New York City and in Toronto where it is known as, Join The Dance.
Ms. Gayle is an apprentice member of both ACTRA and CAEA and filmed a television and print advertisement for O2 alongside Gary Oldman in 2012. Some of her theatrical credits include; The Wedding Singer (2012), Mayfield Dinner Theatre; My Brothers Keeper (2011), Exousia Media Group; Hairspray (2011), Drayton Entertainment; and The Saga of James Applebommerplank's Love Triangle Affair (2011), Court Jester Presents.
As a dancer with Jasmyn Fyffe Dance, she has performed in Into the roots... beyond the leaves (2011), 60x60 (2010) and Women in Dance (2010). Most recently, she is a proud cast member of Gimme One Riddim (2013), a dance/theatre production co-choreographed and co-produced by Jasmyn Fyffe and Natasha Powell.
She is a graduate of York University's Bachelor of Fine Arts program with Honours in Dance and The Ailey School's Independent Study Program in New York, NY. In addition to her extensive training in Ballet and Contemporary techniques, she has also trained in and taught Bronze Syllabus (American) Latin & Ballroom, in Toronto and NYC.
While she thoroughly enjoys teaching adults, some of her most rewarding work has been teaching children through Dancing Classrooms, an Arts in Education program fostering social development through Latin & Ballroom dance. This program utilizes the carefully crafted Dulaine Method created by Pierre Dulaine. Trudy has had the privilege of teaching this program both across New York City and in Toronto where it is known as, Join The Dance.
Ms. Gayle is an apprentice member of both ACTRA and CAEA and filmed a television and print advertisement for O2 alongside Gary Oldman in 2012. Some of her theatrical credits include; The Wedding Singer (2012), Mayfield Dinner Theatre; My Brothers Keeper (2011), Exousia Media Group; Hairspray (2011), Drayton Entertainment; and The Saga of James Applebommerplank's Love Triangle Affair (2011), Court Jester Presents.
As a dancer with Jasmyn Fyffe Dance, she has performed in Into the roots... beyond the leaves (2011), 60x60 (2010) and Women in Dance (2010). Most recently, she is a proud cast member of Gimme One Riddim (2013), a dance/theatre production co-choreographed and co-produced by Jasmyn Fyffe and Natasha Powell.
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