Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 

Guillaume Côté, a native of Québec, is a renowned Principal Dancer with The National Ballet of Canada. He has performed major classical roles and worked with the world’s most esteemed choreographers. As a guest artist, he has danced with prestigious companies worldwide, including The Royal Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, English National Ballet, the Mikhailosky Theater of St-Petersburg, Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Berlin’s Staatsoper, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Stuttgart Ballet, Hamburg Ballett, Verona Opera and the South African Ballet Theater. In 2012, he co-founded Anymotion Productions to produce high-quality independent dance works. Côté also serves as a Choreographic Associate with The National Ballet of Canada, with eight of his works in the company’s repertoire. His ballets have received critical acclaim, including Enkeli, which won the Audience Choice Award for Best Choreography in 2012. He collaborated with director Robert Lepage to create Frame by Frame in 2018. In 2021, he founded his own company, Côté Danse, and premiered innovative works such as Burn Baby, Burn; X (Dix); Cyrpto and Touch. Côté has received numerous awards and was named Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Québec in 2021.

An acclaimed artist of pure elegance. Sonia Rodriguez served as a Principal dancer of the National ballet of Canada retiring from the company after a 32 year career. Sonia has performed virtually every leading role in the classical repertoire, numerous George Balanchine ballets and has worked with, performed and created roles in works by contemporary choreographers such as Alexei Ratmansky, James Kudelka, Christopher Wheeldon, John Neumeier, Wayne McGregor, Lar Lubovitch, Glen Tetley, Marie Chouinard, Azure Barton, Robert Binet, Sabrina Matthews, Will Tucket, Jorma Elo, Guillaume Côté, William Forsythe and Crystal Pite. As a guest artist she has appeared in Stars of the 21st century, Dance Salad Festival in Houston and International ballet galas in Spain, Italy, Hungary, Russia, Mexico, Canada and the US. She is the recipient of the Grand Prix winner in Capri, Rolex Dancers First award 2008/2017, 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians award. She received the Order of Civil Merit from Spain and was Inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame 2012.

Upon graduation from Bytom State Ballet School in Poland, Robert Glumbek joined The Great Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Warsaw as a soloist. After immigrating to Canada he worked as a dancer for a number of Canadian companies and later joined Mannheim Ballet, Germany as a dancer and ballet master. He has worked as an independent artist and choreographer since returning to Canada and is currently the Artistic Associate for ProArteDanza and faculty member of Toronto Metropolitan University. Robert has choreographed numerous acclaimed works for companies around the world. He was a finalist in the Hanover and Stuttgart Choreographic Competitions, recipient of the Now Magazine Best Dancer, K.M. Hunter Artist Award and Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award. Glumbek is a four-time Dora Mavor Moore nominee, and co-recipient winner with Robert Campanella. Most recently, Glumbek was nominated and twice presented the Jan Kiepura best choreographer award for his work with the Szczecin Ballet, Poland.

Originally from Red Deer, Alberta, Carleen Zouboules earned her BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2020. Since then, she has become a standout performer in Toronto, dancing for esteemed companies like ProArteDanza, Côté Dansé, Red Sky Performance, and Zata Omm Productions. Zouboules’ resume includes two performances at Fall For Dance North, featuring works by Jera Wolfe and Anne Plamondon. Her repertoire extends to pieces by Lesley Telford, Roberto Campanella, Robert Glumbek, Chantelle Good, Tori Mehaffey, William Yong, and Guillaume Côté. On camera, she has performed for the MTV Video Music Awards, the feature film Sweat, and creative film Eden Planted. Zouboules choreographed for Night Shift, presented by Citadel + Compagnie in collaboration with FFDN in 2022, and recently collaborated and choreographed for the TMU students. Her passion for the stage extends beyond dance to acting; she is excited to contribute to this version of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark that beautifully combines both art forms.

Lukas Malkowski (he/they) is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult), iconographic|clastic performance maker and Aquarius based between Germany and Canada. He started dancing at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, later obtaining his BFA in Dance Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University. Embodying physics, voice, and Sign; he has choreographed full length works, ambient sets, music videos, and films with Naishi Wang, Sam Slater (Joker OST), LBT, and 7th Plain (Luke Slater) at CTM Festival, FestivalTransAmérique, and the Schrittmacher Festival, recently winning audience choice award at the biennial dance: made in Canada festival. Flowmentum: his teaching practice is driven by embodiments of physics through sight and touch. In 2021 Malkowski received the Recherchestipendium Darstellende Kunst. He is also one of the 2022/23 Tanzpraxis Emerging Artist scholarship recipients. He created an ecstatic solo premiere Moan in 2024 and the Sign Language duet Sign Momentum in 2025.

Michel Faigaux, born and raised in Toronto, Canada, is a graduate of the Canada’s National Ballet School. He danced with The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada and Alberta Ballet. Faigaux has been lucky to travel the world, performing all over Canada and the USA, Japan, China, Egypt, Finland, Singapore and has also performed for two seasons with the Stratford Festival. Faigaux is also known for his energetic ballet classes and is currently a guest teacher at the National Ballet of Canada, and has guest taught in Japan for more than 20 years. Faigaux would like to thank his amazing wife Clodagh, and his two kids, Daisuke and Mika, for supporting this amazing journey to the stage, and also Guillaume Côté, Etienne Lavigne and Robert Lepage for this opportunity.

Natasha Poon Woo is a freelance dancer, rehearsal director, and dance teacher. She began training and performing at Claude Watson School for the Arts and with Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre in her hometown of Toronto, Ontario. She is a summa cum laude graduate of SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Dance, where she performed works by Pam Tanowitz, Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone and Kevin Wynn. Natasha has since danced for Compagnie de la Citadelle, The Dietrich Group, Roderick George, Carol Anderson, The Platform, Hit & Run Dance Productions, and Conny Janssen Danst, among others, and is an ongoing collaborator and Dora Award-winning performer with Rock Bottom Movement.

A proud artist of Côté Danse since 2021, Poon Woo has also had the privilege of performing in the company’s productions of Touch, Crypto, and X (Dix), with notable presentations at Le Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur and New York City Center’s 2023 Fall for Dance Festival.

Connor Mitton is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Performance Dance Program and a 2018 and 2019 Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominee. Originally from Ottawa, Mitton has toured and performed with several renowned dance companies performing works by: Citadel + Compagnie, James Kudelka, Guillame Cote, Robert Lepage, Jerra Wolf, Red Sky Performance, Thomas Fonua, William Yong, Hanna Kiel, Kate Hilliard, Heidi Strauss, Robert Glumbek, Roberto Campanella, Release Dance Project, ACE Dance Theatre, Zata Omm Dance Projects, Avinoam Silverman and Allan Kaeja. In his first year performing professionally, Mitton was recognized by Now Magazine as one of 2017’s breakthrough
Toronto stage artists.

Willem Sadler is a street styles and contemporary based artist from Toronto, Ontario. Sadler has had the opportunity to perform and show his work internationally, most recently in New York City. Sadler defines himself as a versatile dancer/creator and strives to squash the separation of ‘styles’ and present dance as movement without restrictions. Throughout his career Sadler has performed and collaborated with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mirvish, Dusk Dances, CCDT, Dance Collection Danse, Zata OMM, ProArteDanza and Côté Danse. He has also performed works by Jennifer Archibalt, Guillaume Côté, Colin Connor, William Yong and Robert Lepage. Sadler has most notably performed in Cote Danse’s X(Dix) as part of the 20th Fall For Dance Festival at the New York City Center. Sadler wishes to contribute towards enriching the Toronto dance community.