Samantha Sutherland

Samantha is an Indigenous contemporary dance artist, choreographer, and teacher based in Tkaronto. Her ancestry is Ktunaxa and Scottish/British Settler. She graduated from the Arts Umbrella Dance Diploma Program in 2018. She has worked as a guest artist with Ballet BC and an associate artist with Red Sky Performance. Samantha has presented choreographic works in the Matriarchs Uprising Festival by O.Dela Arts, the Paprika Festival, and Sharing the Stage with the National Ballet of Canada. She has danced in works by Indigenous choreographers Alejandro Ronceria and Jera Wolfe.