OFFTA x FTA: SUPER BODY

In 2004, Crazy Smooth founded the company Bboyizm, of which he is also artistic director, in order to bring authentic urban dance to the professional stage. Bboyizm has been recognized for its important contributions to the preservation and development of urban dance, and has performed original works including Music Creates Opportunity, IZM and L’évolution du b boying across Canada as well as offering cultural mediation and audience development activities.

Crazy Smooth’s latest work, In My Body, has delighted audiences of every generation, and won four Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2022, for production, choreography, performance and sound composition, as well as the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s 2020 Clifford E. Lee Award in Choreography. The piece was supported through a three-year residency at the O Vertigo Creation Centre – OCCC, which also produced the piece.

Her subjects range from abstract works to figurative bodies in tension and fight. Her passion finds resources in having a conversation with the space available to her, the light that breathes in the space and which movement would find its synergy. The self-taught artist is in constant exploration of material and context – an exploration of light, color, and reflective bodies.