Charmaine Headley, a Trini-Bajan by birth
and culture, is co-founder, teacher and performer of COBA, Collective Of Black Artists.
Charmaine is a graduate of School of Toronto Dance Theatre and the School of the Barbados
Dance Theatre, where she went on to dance with the Barbados National Dance Theatre
Company. She has performed extensively throughout Ontario, Winnipeg, Vancouver and the United
States as a member of COBA and was a member of OMO Dance Co from 1996 to 2002. Her other
independent ventures includes b current's multi-disciplinary production "dark
Diaspora...In dub" and “rock, paper sistahs”; Mei'rim Dance Company; the
Gina Lori Riley Dance Enterprise and the Danny Grossman Dance Company along with film
appearances in Seeking Salvation and The Feast of all Saints.Charmaine’s choreographic works to date includes "BUSH BATH" in (1997); UNFINISHED SIN...4 ME, a tribute to a creative soul who was killed senselessly; REBIRTH in 1994;BEFORE MADNESS in 1993; JUSTIFY in 2000; INSPIRIT in 2001 and WASSUP in 2004. She also served as choreographer for the Inner Stage Theatre, Jobs Ontario Youth Program (JOY), Ache Women of Colour, Fresh Arts Youth Program and Usafiri Dance and Drum Ensemble where she also taught Caribbean Indigenous Folk and Contemporary dance. Mother of one, Charmaine is a certified Gerontologist,and is presently completing a Masters Degree in Dance Ethnology with the vision of developing and implementing dance motivated programs for seniors.
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