Residency 2025

FODAR’s Creative Residency Program is offered each year leading up to the Festival. It is made possible through a generous donation from Joanne Weaver and Jim Mountain. The Residency offers dance artists two weeks in Annapolis Royal to live and create work in the quiet beauty of this historic pastoral town. 

This year we are thrilled to offer the Creative Residency Program to Ottawa-based 10 Gates Dancing. The company is under the artistic direction of choreographer, dancer/B-boy Crazy Smooth. This Residency will allow Smooth and his co-creator Saxon Fraser time to work on their new piece Boundaries, which will premiere at FODAR 2025.

About Boundaries

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.