We Draw the Line – FODAR Residency 2025
10 Gates Dancing was invited to participate in the Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia’s (FODAR) two-week Creative Residency Program in July of 2025. Crazy Smooth and award-winning contemporary choreographer Saxon Fraser, spent two lovely weeks embraced by the local community while co-creating We Draw the Line, featuring 5 company dancers in an intimate […]
Annapolis Royal All-Styles Street Dance Battle
FODAR staged an outdoor All-Styles Street Dance Battle in the Annapolis Royal Farmer’s Market hosted by Crazy Smooth. It is estimated that over half of the town’s population came out to enjoy the battle, which featured both local and 10 Gates’ talent, on the sunny summer’s evening. Enjoy an excerpt of the event here […]
10 Gates Creation Lab at Morrow
Choreographic collaborator Saxon Fraser and Artistic Director Crazy Smooth lead a multi-day creation lab in Vancouver in partnership with Odd Meridian Arts at their Morrow studio. The 10 Gates Creation Lab is a micro-creation process that guides participants through two days of creation building exercises that are designed to develop capacity for translating a curiosity […]
What’s New: 10 Gates Creation Labs
Artistic Director B-boy Crazy Smooth conducted multi-day Creation Lab sessions in Calgary, Montreal and Toronto, designed to pilot the Opening Gates Creation (OGC) Program. Smooth worked with industry experts Saxon Fraser and Alejandro Rodriguez to establish core objectives, gather participant feedback, and refine the content used in the design of the OGC program. The three […]
What’s New: Queens Creation
Queens Creation is an annual event created in 2013 by the CICU – Convention internationale de la culture urbaine to celebrate the work and contribution of women in hip-hop culture. The 2024 Queens Creation event took place in Montreal on September 13th and 14th at the Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce – Monkland. Queens Creation […]