Connections//Collisions Cabaret

Connections//Collisions Cabaret

Mile Zero Dance’s Cabaret series, curated by Josh Languedoc, features a variety of artists and welcomes audiences to experience a series of multiple new art pieces!

$25/$20 MZD Members
7:30 PM
Mile Zero Dance is located at 9931 78 Ave NW, Edmonton
Get your tickets in advance online! A limited quantity will be available at the door.

Cabaret Theme | FRAMES

Curatorial Statement | Josh Languedoc

There are always boundaries containing something. Or are they merely lines that allow us to hold our focus onto one specific part that we are supposed to look at? The word “frame” can mean many things. It can be the border around a painting, protecting it from breaking if it falls. It can be a stage which contains the action of a performance piece. It can be the outer edges of a mask that allow us to focus on what the mask is trying to show us. It can be the outer edges of radio waves travelling at speeds we cannot see, yet allow it to move up and down in a wave. This cabaret, we invite you to think about our lives and the frames we can see, as well as the frames we can’t see.

JANUARY 4 | Connections//Collisions Cabaret features artists: 

Featured artists:
Alec Turgeon (with Morgan Turgeon and Rena Adell Eyamie)
Tori Bulick
Robert Walsh (with Pardeep Kumar and Macy Yau)
Jordy Wiens
Sarah Wilson (with Gemma Lissoway, Aidan Collins, Colby Stockdale, Braden Welsh, puppet created by Jenna Sampson)
Diego Pedro Ramalho
Tenniel Whiskeyjack

Featured band:
Will Scott – Bass
Grant Callaghan – Drums/Vocals
Philippe McLean – Guitar/Vocals
Connell Stinnissen – Guitar

Upcoming 2025 Cabarets
January 4
March 1
April 5

Stay tuned for upcoming Cabaret themes, artist line-up and curatorial statement!

Featuring

Rena Adell Eyamie

Rena Adell Eyamie (she/her) is a queer choreographer, dance, fibre, and material artist located in Tiohtià:ke, Montreal. She is currently studying contemporary dance at Concordia University, having received the James Saya Award in 2024. She has performed her work at the International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec (2023), the Art Matters festival (2024), and Nextfest in Edmonton, Alberta (2024). Rena is drawn to explorations of queer epistemologies, lineages of women’s labour, blurry memories of family, the abject, and the symbolism of the everyday.
Photo credit | Alec Turgeon

Morgan Turgeon

Morgan Turgeon (she/her) is a dancer born and raised in Edmonton, AB. She graduated from Victoria School of the Arts in 2023, receiving an IB certificate in dance. This experience gave her insight into choreographic tools, analytical methods, and the opportunity to perform live and in dance films. She was a dedicated dance student at Studio C Dance Co. for 15 years, also graduating in 2023. During her time at the studio she studied various styles of dance such as jazz, tap, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, modern, and musical theatre. Morgan has a profound love for dance because of its permanence in her life; when in movement, she feels at home. Dance was an essential part of growing and learning in her childhood and she hopes to share these values with future dance artists. Her relationship to dance continues in her teaching role at Inspire Centre for Learning, and as a dancer in various side projects. Photo credit | Alec Turgeon

Alec Turgeon

Alec Turgeon (he/him) is a trans dance artist from amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, AB), based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal, QC). Alec studies dance at Concordia University, receiving the James Saya Award upon completing the program in 2024. His work is rooted in unfiltered curiosity, exposing the multiplicities embedded in the human experience and crafting a delicate space to confront these realities. He is motivated by the spaces of friction and entanglement that emerge through crafting movement, as many unique perspectives, temporalities, and trainings collide. Alec is excited by dance’s ability to orient collective focus and generate transcendental empathy between mover(s) and witness(es). His choreographic work has been presented at Mile Zero Dance, Nextfest, Studio 303, Concordia’s FOFA Gallery, and the Art Matters Festival.
Photo credit | Laurence Poirier

Tori M. Bulick

Tori M. Bulick is a queer and nonbinary Dance/Movement Therapist and choreographer with a focus on healing through movement. Currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling at Drexel University, Tori integrates their training in therapeutic practices with a passion for creative expression. Their work, often blending dance and visual art, explores themes of identity, trauma, and emotional healing. Tori's solo performances, such as Lines of Connection: The Art of Movement Therapy, offer a unique fusion of drawing and dance, highlighting the connection between body, identity, and artistic expression. Through their work, Tori strives to create spaces of self-exploration and connection, using movement as a tool for both individual healing and community building.

Robert Walsh

Robert Walsh is an award-winning singer-songwriter, producer, guitarist, musical director, composer/arranger, author and educator. He has released five albums as a solo artist, four as part of a group (including Allez Ouest), and co-written four musicals, the latest of which, “Rubaboo” (with Andrea Menard), he performed in London ON, Vancouver and Edmonton in 2023-24, and won three Sterling Awards (including Oustanding Score and Musical Direction). He is the author of “Sculpting Air - A Whole Persons Approach to Songwriting”, and “Bob’s Book of Music Theory “), and taught Songwriting and other subjects in the music department at MacEwan University for thirteen years. He is currently working on several solo projects, an internet musical, and an album with friend and collaborator Pierre Sabourin. He has been a guitarist-for-hire for many recording projects, pit musicals, operas, ballets, big bands and solo artists, and was the principal guitarist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for two decades. Robert grew up in Montréal, where he got his BMUS from McGill, put ten years into Toronto, and settled in Edmonton in 1996. He performs regularly in English and French.

Pardeep Kumar

Pardeep Kumar is a trained dancer in various styles including ballet, contemporary, jazz, dancehall and Indian folk and classical forms. He participated in several competitions and performances, won Conestoga’s Got Talent and Edmonton’s Emerging Talent (2024). Pardeep was part of kingdom of dreams musical “Zangoora” and performed Bollywood choreo . Currently he is studying at Portage College (Calgary). Performing with Robert Walsh.

Macy Yau

Macy Yau is a dancer primarily trained in Chinese dance styles.

She is proficient with multiple traditional props, such as fan, umbrella, handkerchief, etc. Macy had been invited to perform in a variety of events over the years, most notably she had been selected to to represent her community and performed at Rogers Place for their Asian heritage month. Internationally, she had been selected for the Chinese Bridge contest and had been invited to tour with the Chinese Peking Opera group. Recently, Macy co-founded a nonprofit to provide free dance education for dancers of all backgrounds. Macy commits time to building confidence in each dancer, and seeking out performance opportunities for them to grow from. In the past years she has experimented with many other styles, and is always excited for the opportunity to showcase.

Jordy Wiens

Theatre is Jordy’s home: It's where his bed is made and food is cooked, and it's been an absolute fortune to call it a home for a while now. Jordy is an educator as well as a theatre/ film artist. His classes consist of devised theatre, acting, improvisation, directing, playwriting, and short stories, for children and youth for various organizations across Alberta. When he’s not teaching or creating or huddled around his computer furiously trying to be, he's walking through the forest, watching water ripple, or sipping scalding tea.

Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson is a theatre artist based in Amiskwacîwâskahikan. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Alberta and has been invested in theatre arts for the past twelve years as an actor, and now as a mover, costume designer, and creator with a newly discovered passion for expressionism, mask, and puppetry. Sarah’s focus lies in creating “bad art”, which to her, is art free of personal judgements and perfectionism. It is art for the sake of art - a personal challenge to herself to explore and remove her previous self imposed limitations. Committed to growth, exploration, and play as her three main pillars, Sarah is always experimenting and challenging herself to push past what she believes theatre can be and what she can do.

Gemma Lissoway

Gemma Lissoway (she/they) is a theatre artist located and practicing in Edmonton. She is passionate about how movement, social context, and spoken text can come together in a performance setting to create engaging and boundary-pushing work. Currently, Gemma is pursuing a BA Honours degree in Drama and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. In their free time, they like to read contemporary fiction, listen to the same music as her parents, and snuggle with her cat, Lily. Gemma is a lover of all forms of art and is excited to be a part of work that is new, exciting, and joyful. Recent performance credits include Leon in Sheep Play (Edmonton Fringe, 2024 and New Works Festival, 2023); Risk Assessment (Off-The-Cuff Cabaret, 2024); Katarina in ...And Others (Edmonton Fringe, 2023). Recent production credits include Publicist (New Works Festival, 2025); and Assistant Director for The Picture of Elias Graham (New Works Festival, 2024).

Aidan Collins

Aidan Collins is a multidisciplinary Edmonton based artist primarily focused on choreography and directing. She is currently in her fifth year of BA(drama)/BeD(secondary) at the U of A. Aidan is a member of MOD Contemporary Ensemble where she has an outlet to dance and choreograph. Her recent choreography projects include, Sheep Play (Edmonton Fringe 2024), Marat/Sade (University of Alberta 2024), Eclipse (MOD Contemp 2024), … And Others (Edmonton Fringe 2023), Speed Control (MOD Contemp 2023), and Illuminations (MOD Contemp 2022). Aidan is currently in the process of directing girls can eat now for the New Works festival at the University of Alberta. She is honored to have gotten the opportunity to work with such willing individuals on this project.

Colby Stockdale

Colby Stockdale is an Indigenous photographer, dancer, sculptor and actor based in Amiskwacîwâskahikan. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting at the University of Alberta. Colby has been pursuing acting for the past eight years, primarily onstage. Select acting credits include Civil Blood: A Treaty Story (Thou Art Here Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (University of Alberta), and The Lobbyists (Azimuth Theatre). Colby is passionate about creating art that is not solely focused on entertainment value, but is instead focused on pushing the industry forward. To put it simply, Colby wants to make art that can impact people enough to provoke a change within the industry.

Braden Welsh

Braden Welsh he/him is a performer from Edmonton Alberta. He hopes you enjoy the show.

Diego Ramalho

Born in Mococa-SP, Brazil, Diego Ramalho’s beginning in dance was in Breakdance and Brazilian capoeira. In his teens, he was persuaded to enroll in formal ballet training at Kleine Szene in Santo André-SP, Brazil. In 2013, Diego was invited to be a member of Coastal City Ballet Company in Vancouver, BC, where he performed leading roles in full-length ballets such as Swan Lake, Giselle, Cinderella and Coppelia. Diego has been a guest artist in productions across Canada, USA and Brazil and has worked with creators such as Andrea Peña, Joshua Beamish, Shay Kuebler, Dorotea Saykaly, Ethan Colangelo, Kirsten Wicklund, to name a few. He joined Ballet Edmonton in 2018 and has been exploring his choreographic voice under the mentorship of Wen Wei Wang. His recent work “Valei-me” has been presented for diverse audiences across Canada, including the National Arts Centre in Ottawa as part of the company’s 2023 e-motion tour.

Will Scott Band

Will Scott Band is a krauty/progressive/experimental/ improvisational 4-piece band from Edmonton, AB that focuses on fleshing out and expanding upon multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound artist, and recording engineer, Will Scott's music. They are currently focused on structured improvisation and have a new live show that is never the same. The live band is known for exploration, and could loosely be considered a "jam band," but hopefully not in a shitty Phish way.