These workshops were recorded over the Spring as part of our Wellness Wednesday Series and are presented with Little Shadow Productions.
- This series offers "Pay What You Choose" prices
$5, $15, $25 CDN- no questions asked
- our wellness workshop policy is intended to make our programming accessible to all, while still paying the artists and practitioners.
- for those who can, please consider choosing a higher price point to offset the cost of those who can’t.
Thank you.
Wellness Wednesdays
is a series of movement and dance based wellness programs to be provided over the arc of 2021.
The purpose of this project is to connect, unite, and support people through joyful movement and dance workshops encouraging mental health, stress relief and physical wellbeing.
Little Shadow Productions and Our summer gift to you! Enjoy all of our Dance BREAKS
on-demand until Labour Day.
This series includes:
Dance It Out with Alison Plamondon
Dance Like There's Nobody Watching with Alexis Milligan
Soca Dance Party with Oneika Phillips
Bollyfit Dance Party with Gabriella Sundar Singh
Dance, Move & Smile with Ablasika Phillips
Ablasika Phillips has been a community group fitness instructor for the past 8 years specializing in Zumba/Dance Fitness and Cardio. “Sika” has been a fashion designer on NYC for over 20 years. Having shifting her focus to helping others as a health aid, she finds creative inspiration and compassion everywhere. Living in Queens, NY, she is the mother of two beautiful and happy children.
About The Artists
Called “The first Grenadian woman on Broadway…” Oneika Phillips’ credits include the Tony award winning productions Spongebob Squarepants and FELA! The Musical. Other Broadway credits include Amazing Grace, and as assistant to the choreographer on the critically acclaimed, Violet. Prior, Oneika found her voice as Anita in the 50th Anniversary International Tour of Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story, nominated for The West End’s Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, winning the Theatergoer’s Choice Award in the same category. She was also a cast member of the First and Second National/International tours of FELA!
Oneika is a former featured member of Abdel Salaam’s Forces of Nature Dance Theatre, where roots were laid for a professional career in Music Theatre. Other favorite theatre credits include Christopher Gattelli’s In Your Arms, a dance-based play, Tusk, a concert-theater experience that combines elements of film, puppetry, live music and theater, Jamaican writer Jermaine Rowe’s Children of the Blue Mountain and Leonora, directed by Antonio Minino, a Caribbean interpretation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
Oneika’s newest onstage adventure is the revival of 1776, a musical that explores the founding of America, the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the flaws, contradictions and consequences of the document. The unconventional casting pushes the envelope of what diversity in casting can look like. A virtual workshop was completed early in the pandemic, the first of its kind for a Broadway bound production. Oneika considers herself an ambassador to her country and region and strives to be a voice for Caribbean representation in American Arts.
INSTAGRAM: @DragonPassionFruit
Alexis Milligan is a movement director at The Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of New Brunswick. She is on the steering committee for both the Atlantic Centre for Creativity, and the Canadian Network for Imagination and Creativity. Alexis lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with her two kids, Timothy and Annika.
You can also find Alexis at
https://canadiannetworkforimaginationandcreativity.com/
Ablasika Phillips has been a community group fitness instructor for the past 8 years specializing in Zumba/Dance Fitness and Cardio. “Sika” has been a fashion designer on NYC for over 20 years. Having shifting her focus to helping others as a health aid, she finds creative inspiration and compassion everywhere. Living in Queens, NY, she is the mother of two beautiful and happy children.
Allison Plamondon is a choreographer, director, and teacher and performer.
Originally from Edmonton, she has worked at some of the most exciting cultural institutions in North America includingMadison Square Garden, City Center, Symphony Space and La MaMa. Highlights in choreography include the Oscar-winning short film, Curfew as well as Holiday Inn at the Shaw Festival. Allison has taught at Broadway Dance Center,AMDA, Queens Theater, Randolph Academy and Sheridan College.
Gabriella Sundar Singh is a Toronto-born actor, dancer, singer and musician of Indian and Sri-Lankan Tamil heritage. She completed her B.A.Hons. at the University of Guelph (Ontario) in Theatre Studies, achieved her Post-Graduate studies at Centennial College (Toronto) in Children’s Media, and graduated from the Acting Program at the National Theatre School of Canada (Montréal). She is a classically trained Bharathanatyam dancer (Classical South Indian dance), as well as a classically trained pianist and singer.
Gabriella has performed at the Shaw Festival (Niagara-on-the-Lake) for three seasons, most notably in 2019’s “The Russian Play,” by Hannah Moscovitch. She most recently choreographed Bharathanatyam, directed and performed in “Sisterhood,” also at the Shaw. You can watch her as “Chelsea” on Canada’s hit t.v. series “Kim’s Convenience,” on CBC and Netflix.