Residency 2025

The FODAR RESIDENCY PROGRAM is offered every year in affiliation with Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal. The program gives dance artists two weeks in Annapolis Royal to live and work. This initiative provides artists with transportation, accommodation, per diem and studio time, giving them the freedom to create in the quiet beauty of this historic pastoral town.

This year we are thrilled to offer a two-week residency to Ottawa-based 10 Gates Dancing. The company is under the artistic direction of choreographer and dancer Bboy Crazy Smooth.This period will allow choreographer and dancers time to work on their new piece Boundaries.  The work will premiere at FODAR 2025.

About the Piece

The creative curiosity being explored in this project is personal boundaries of all kinds  including physical, emotional, and intellectual. Choreographers Crazy Smooth and Saxon Fraser are working with a diverse group of five interpreters selected from within the street dance community. Smooth and Saxon hope this creative collaboration, will construct imagery of what holding healthy boundaries can look like.

About the Company

Under B-boy Crazy Smooth’s leadership, 10 Gates Dancing honours Founder Tedd Robinson’s values while adapting them to the practices of its street dance community and the organization’s mission: to nurture the creativity of artists and cultivate interdisciplinary dialogue through unique collaborations.

Artistic Director Crazy Smooth

Renowned as the Founder and Artistic Director of Bboyizm dance company,  Smooth is an accomplished choreographer, street dance ambassador, mentor, and community leader. His contributions have been pivotal in the preservation and promotion of street dance both in Canada and internationally.

Header photo credit: Finding Out. National Arts Centre. Left, Tedd. Robinson, Founder of 10 Gates Dancing. Right, Crazy Smooth, Artistic Director of 10 Gates Dancing.  Photo by Greg MacKay.