Dancers came together to showcase a diversity of styles and backgrounds for this project.
Longtime ballet dancer Chloe Bonnet and friend Zeeggy Mercy invited dancers from different backgrounds to participate in a dance routine celebrating diversity in Ottawa's dance community.is a place where young digital storytellers from diverse backgrounds can produce original video content to air on CBC and tell stories through their own lens.
A self-taught dancer, Mercy says she and Bonnet bonded over the lack of diversity in Ottawa's dance scene. To bring the video to life, they decided to reach out to dancers across the city who'd felt excluded from dance spaces. "I wanted the image of the dance community to change, but unfortunately I feel like we still have work to do," said Bonnet, who noted the dance community in Ottawa is mostly focused on contemporary, ballet and jazz.
When she moved to Canada five years ago, she wanted to branch out into different dance forms, but she struggled to meet people from different backgrounds at classes in the city. "I couldn't find a dance team that helped me express my gift," said the second-year health sciences student at Carleton University.Temitayo Oyenola, right, started the African Dance Crew at Carleton University to share her love of Afrobeats.
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