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Maya Santos O’Keefe
January 18 - 22, 2027
Orillia Opera House
Description
Kaitlyn Elise creates an evocative living tapestry through skill, fragility and organic movement, to explore the nature of human grace.
Biographies
Maya Santos O'Keefe (Choreographer)
Maya Santos O’Keefe (she/her) is a queer contemporary dance artist and choreographer of Filipino and settler heritage based in Tkaronto/Toronto. She graduated from Dance Arts Institute (formerly known as The School of Toronto Dance Theatre) in 2023. She is interested in how dance can be used as a sculptural form, creating vivid and impactful visuals while exploring processes of unravelling and accumulating. She transforms the visual qualities and tactile characteristics of tangible objects into movement, using bodies as a vessel to investigate vulnerable emotional states.Her work has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts, The National Ballet’s Open Space Programme, Toronto Dance Theatre’s Plug-N-Play, Decidedly Jazz Dancework’s Creative Residency Program, The Garage and Woodland Farm Artist Residency. Most recently, she co-produced and co-choreographed in bigBITE Dance Collective production of “Munchiez,” presenting her work “N2O 1799.”
Emmett Bradshaw (Dancer)
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John MacDonald
John MacDonald is an industry veteran production designer with over fifty years experience working with such iconic brands as Disney, Universal Studios, Cirque du Soleil and Paramount. John is a certified rigger and production electrician with over 150 live event credits under his belt.
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David Laidlaw
David Laidlaw is a multidisciplinary sound artist whose work explores the meeting point of movement, listening, and the living world. Combining live electronics, field recordings, resonant instruments, and improvisation, he creates immersive sound environments that evolve in dialogue with performers, inviting audiences into experiences of presence, curiosity, and connection.
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