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Beyond the stage: U of T s Seika Boye on what we can learn from dance Seika Boye, an assistant professor, teaching stream, at U of T s Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies, is pictured dancing in Vancouver in 2001 (photo by Albert Normandin)
The University of Toronto’s Seika Boye has performed and presented her choreography across the country with the nation’s top dance companies and worked alongside some of Canada’s most respected artists.
But in addition to being an artist and writer, Boye is also a teacher and scholar. An assistant professor, teaching stream, at the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies and director of the centre’s Institute for Dance Studies (IDS), Boye’s research explores Blackness and dancing in Canada, as well as embodied learning and pedagogy.