INFINITY
COCKTAIL PARTY
North York, Ontario
NOVEMBER 14, 2025
Support local dance with an unforgettable evening of performance, festivity, and connection!
We’re closing out our 2025 programming on Friday November 14th with a celebratory fundraising event featuring delicious cocktails, small bites, plus live music and special performances by TFD-affiliated artists, KINAJ and Rosie Harbans!
Every ticket purchased to this event will bring us closer to achieving our mission of sharing art, connecting people with a focus on providing free and subsidized arts experiences for youth. Join us for this infinity-themed ∞ night to remember - helping to propel our grassroots work towards a sustainable future!
WHEN:
Friday November 14, 2025
7:00pm - 9:00pm
WHERE:
John McKenzie House
34 Parkview Ave, North York, ON
You’re warmly invited to attend! We look forward to welcoming you!
✨ Celebrate the magic of movement, art, and community
🎭 Support local dance and the artists behind it
🌱 Help grow the future of TFD through your presence or donation
A limited number of discounted Arts Worker tickets ($25) and pay-what-you-can Alumni/Artist tickets (please contact us!) are also available! Note: this is a 19+ event.
At this year’s Infinity Party, we are thrilled to acknowledge and celebrate members of the TFD community who have made an impact with inaugural Alumni and Supporter of Honour Awards!
ALUMNI OF HONOUR
ROSIE HARBANS
Fresh Dance Intensive Student, Assistant, Teacher (2010-2017)
Rosie first encountered TOES FOR DANCE as a student at Fresh Dance Intensive back in 2010. In 2013, she participated in the Fresh Teacher Training Program, directed by Kristen Carcone, and went on to become a teaching assistant the following summer. Rosie was quickly promoted to a Fresh Faculty Member and taught at several workshops across Canada until 2017. Rosie’s vibrant energy and warm spirit was always an asset to the Fresh team. She is not only an incredible educator and talented artist, but a generous and kind human. We are so grateful for all of Rosie’s contributions to TFD over the years and could not be more proud of all that she’s accomplished in her professional career!
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Rose-Mary “Rosie” Harbans is a Dora-nominated performer, choreographer, and dance educator based in Toronto. A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University (BFA), her training is rooted in Jazz, West African, Afro-Caribbean, and Western dance traditions. Rosie approaches movement as a vessel for liberation, healing, and storytelling. She was recently performing in Disney’s The Lion King (Mirvish Productions). Select performance credits include Treemonisha (Volcano Theatre), Evita (Drayton Theatre), Dixon Road (Musical Stage Co), ZAYO (Esie Mensah), Water Spirit (Lua Shayenne Dance Company), After Midnight (Norwegian Cruise Lines), and works by Rodney Diverlus and Vicki St. Denys.
“Receiving this honor feels like a full-circle moment. TOES FOR DANCE/Fresh Dance Intensive was one of the first places I learned to explore movement with curiosity and creativity, and the tools I gained have shaped the artist I am today.” - Rosie Harbans
SUPPORTER OF HONOUR
Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre
Deborah Lundmark (Artistic Director) and Michael deConinck Smith (Managing Director)
TFD Supporters and Partners (2010-Present)
Deborah and Michael, founders of Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, have been TOES FOR DANCE supporters since the beginning! From creating the educational environment that shaped TFD Co-Director David Norsworthy’s artistry in his high school years, to being supportive TFD audience members, to providing discounted workshop space for our Fresh Dance Intensive program, to suggesting and collaborating on the creation of our Ignite summer intensive which ran successfully for a decade (2013-2022), and gifting free studio space for our rehearsals - we are immensely grateful for their support. TFD would not be what it is today without their vision and generosity!
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Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre is a Toronto-based repertory company of exceptional young artists founded in 1980 by Artistic Director, Deborah Lundmark and Managing Director, Michael deConinck Smith. Highlights include appearances at Toronto’s Princess of Wales and Royal Alexandra Theatres, five invitations to the Canada Dance Festival, and tours to Singapore, Malaysia, China, Scotland, and NYC. CCDT has introduced 350,000 young people to dance through its Ontario Arts Access program, sharing commissions by more than one hundred international artists. In recent years, CCDT celebrated the José Limón Dance Company’s 70th anniversary, performing The Winged at NYC’s Joyce Theater as part of their International Dance Festival, helped to launch Harbourfront Centre’s inaugural Junior International Children’s Festival and has been featured in Canada’s premiere international dance festival, Fall For Dance North.
“As Founders of a company focused on jump-starting teen dancers in the arts of Modern and Contemporary Dance, we have always looked to collaborate with like-minded colleagues. With the launch of TFD, by David and Kristen in 2012, we were doubly fortunate to discover in their initiative not only a keen understanding of how to engage younger artists and audiences, but also the opportunity to reunite with David, an outstanding former company member. Our parallel interests quickly converged in the form of ignite!, a long-running and unique creation-based intensive for emerging choreographers. Later, we had the great pleasure of commissioning a new work by Chantelle and coming to appreciate her considerable gifts as the new TFD Co-Director. This personal relationship, and our understanding that this is an inaugural recognition, very much deepens our appreciation of this wonderful acknowledgement.” - Deborah Lundmark and Michael deConinck Smith
TFD’s Infinity Cocktail Party is made possible with the support of the Ontario Historical Society. Gratitude shout-out to the Willowdale Central Ratepayers Association and the WCRA Arts Collective for helping us make the connection!
Photos on this page courtesy of Shannon Widdis: (circular photos, left to right) David Norsworthy and Peggy Baker, James Grant, Kiera Breaugh, Tanveer Alam and Priyanka Tope, Veronica Simpson, (banner photo, left to right) Alexa Belgrave, Veronica Simpson, Kiera Breaugh, Zarita Adhiambo, Ale Nunez. Pink swirl graphic by Kendra Epik. Infinity swirl graphic by Shannon Widdis.
