Mile Zero Dance Double Bills

Witness a pair of artists- one from Edmonton and one not- in an artistic conversation 

Double Bill #1:
Tanveer Alam (Toronto) and Max Hanic (Edmonton/Vancouver)

This show will run for two evenings!
Friday, October 17 + Saturday, October 18
7:30 PM
$20 MZD Members/$25 General Admission

Location:
MILE ZERO DANCE
9931 78 Ave NW
Edmonton, AB

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCES

Naksha | Tanveer Alam (Toronto)

Naksha (meaning map or grid in urdu), choreographed and performed by Tanveer Alam explores the often sidelined Muslim histories and aesthetics within Kathak — an ongoing inquiry in his practice as a Muslim artist engaging with this form. This live Kathak solo is accompanied by Ramona Sylvan on Tabla, Sukriti Sharma on recitation, Shruti Nair on vocals, and Gandhaar Amin on bansuri.

Kneeture’s Gift  | Max Hanic (Edmonton/Vancouver)

Kneeture’s Gift is a character study through the use of improvisational scores inspired by religious and spiritual texts both sincere and ironic. This piece is an examination of yearning as a physical state of being and source of choreography. Kneeture as a character is inspired by texts from Hafez, spirituality the way it is packaged on social media and creatures that are deemed a lucky omen to behold and witness.

House Technician | Amy Dass

Both artists are also teaching workshops in conjunction with their show!
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Featuring

Tanveer Alam

Toronto-based Tanveer Alam started his Kathak training with Sudeshna Maulik and continued further nuanced studies with guru Sandhya Desai. Alam is a 2019 graduate of western contemporary dance from Dance Arts Institute of Canada (DAI).

Alam has performed in the works of Rina Singha, Lata Pada, Padmini Chettur, Brandy Leary, Harikishan S. Nair, Sashar Zarif, Lucy Rupert, and Peter Chin, to name a few. As an emerging choreographer, he has presented work at SummerWorks Festival, Battery Dance Festival +, MAI - Montréal, arts, interculturels, CanAsian Dance Festival: Grit Short Dances, and Tangente.

As an emerging curator, he has supported programming initiatives with Dancemakers, TOES FOR DANCE, CanAsian Dance and Flemingdon Park Toronto Public Library.

Across the 24/25 season, Alam performed solo presentations at Vilaya Festival (Pittsburgh), The New York Kathak Festival (New York), and Navatman Black Box Baithak (New York). He was a commissioned choreographer for Sampradaya Dance Creation’s 35th year anniversary work, Salaam Rahman, featuring AR Rahman’s oeuvre performed by the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, he premiered his collaborative work Ibaadat with co-choreographer Barkha Patel, at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (Mumbai).

Max Hanic

Max Hanic is a queer Amiskwaciwâskahikan raised actor, dancer, singer and instructor who graduated with distinction from the University of Alberta Fine Arts Acting program and studied contemporary dance at La Faktoria Choreographic Centre in Pamplona, Spain for the 2021/2022 period and at Modus Operandi in Vancouver from 2024-2025. Max has been given training scholarships by EDAM (Vancouver), The Good Women Dance Collective (Edmonton) and Circuit-Est (Montréal) as well as trained at Tic Tac Art Centre (Brussels), Espacio Tiempo (Madrid) and at the One Body One Career Countertechnique intensive in Amsterdam. He has performed with the Edmonton Opera, Firefly Theatre and Circus, Amoris Projects, Catch the Keys Productions and in his own choreographies; as well as worked with choreographers Molly Mcdermott, Francesca Frewer, Lin Snelling, Alexis Fletcher, Minggao Zhang, Susanna Hood, Jennifer Mcleish-Lewis and more. He is currently working on a solo piece to be premiered at Mile Zero Dance in the fall of 2025. He has been nominated for a Sterling award and is the recipient of the 2025 Gerda Hnatyshyn award for contemporary dance.