BaKari E. Lindsay
BaKari E. Lindsay was born on the sunny isle of Trinidad, West
Indies. Perfecting his crafts for the past 25 years, BaKari is a dancer, choreographer,
researcher, singer, musician, costume designer/ maker and father. He studied at the Alvin
Ailey American Dance Theater, The School of Toronto Dance Theatre on scholarship and with
various teachers from the Caribbean and the African Continent, and holds a Masters
Degree in Dance Ethnology, and Bachelors of Education degree from York University. Bakari developed a physical language
for training in West African and Diasporic African dance culture entitled A-Feeree - The
Physical Language.
Co-founder of COBA
(Collective Of Black Artists), BaKari has danced for Danny Grossman Dance Company, Artcho
Danse Repertoire (Haiti), Jubilation Dance Co. (USA), Toronto Dance Theatre,
National Dance Company of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), Les Enfants Dance Co (T&T), and several
independent choreographers in Canada, United
States and the Caribbean. He also appeared in the original performing cast of Canada's
Production of Disney's The Lion King.
BaKari has choreographed works for Les Enfants Dance Co., Entre Duex, and The
National Dance Company of T&T, while creating a body of work on COBA Collective Of
Black Artists. He is on the faculty of Ryerson University and has taught dance at York
University, Humber College, Lester B. Pearson School for the Performing Arts and for
several dance schools, institutions and community groups. BaKari's personal artistic
vision, is to develop a harmonious balance between artistic practice and traditional
cultural values.
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