Eduardo Guerrero González (Cádiz, 1983) started dancing when he was only six years old at Carmen Guerrero’s school. There he built the foundations of his dance to later move on to its in-depth development, alongside teachers of the stature of Mario Maya, Antonio Canales, Manolo Marín, among others. He studied Spanish Dance at the Cádiz Dance Conservatory and later expanded his knowledge of contemporary and classical dance. 

Since 2012, Hatim Belyamani — also known as HAT — unites artists in an ever-evolving audio-visual dance between traditional music and digital remix art. In his one-of-a-kind live show, HAT is an orchestra conductor from the future, beaming traditional musicians from the four corners of the world onto a big screen, shaping them harmoniously into new electro beats.

âpihtawikosisâniskwêw (Métis / Norwegian / French / British) multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a 2Spirit singing thunderbird. She works across diverse disciplines of vocal improvisation, spoken word poetry, sound design, and performance creation to create meaning rooted in personal legacy, ancestral memory, and embodied knowledge. Originally from the prairies in Treaty 7, Clark resides in Tio’tiá:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montréal, on the unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk people).

Her last solo album, “Within,” toured across North America, and her collaborative video poem “nitahkôtân” won best Indigenous language music video at the ImagiNative film festival. In 2013, she directed the 10th Annual Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, highlighting Indigenous Languages, and she was named Poet of Honour at the same festival in 2014. “Fire & Sage/ Du sauge et du feu,” her bilingual book of poetry, was released through Maelström Editions in Belgium and has been showcased at international literature festivals. Moe has seven albums of music, both solo and collaborative and multiple performance videos. Co-founder of Weather Beings with Māori Takatāpui dancer/choreographer Victoria Hunt, their collaboration examines intersections of Métis & Māori cosmology and Indigenous futurism through performance experimentation.

Apart from performance, Clark’s work as a creative facilitator aims to remember and reconnect personal and collective belonging to territories of land, body and voice. Through creative continuums of Indigenous language immersion, song creation and ceremonial practice, her work in the community reinforces the roles of 2S people and intergenerational transmission. Moe’s work has appeared the world over, including at the Lincoln Centre (US), UBUD Writers & Readers Festival (ID) and Origins Festival in London (UK).

Sombra Efímera is an installation project by dancer and artist Eduardo Guerrero in which the dimensional images gain plasticity and allow the viewer to imagine a multiplicity of worlds, to build private and intimate spaces in relation to public space. A creation where the Plastic Arts and the Performing Arts join to contribute to each other, joining different artistic paths that dimension through beauty both disciplines. 

Flamenco itself is a cross-disciplinary, inter-cultural practice.  It brings together diverse cultural traditions to erase the distance and differences between its various influences.  It is greater than the sum of its parts.  It has an aspect that is both sacred and which explores the human condition. 

In the days leading up to Nuit Blanche, Eduardo will work with local professional dance schools, and musicians to create a program of new work for the temporary space.  Eduardo will perform his work up to twice during the evening. When not being programmed the structure functions as an installation that people may experience as an interactive sculpture. 

Presented in partnership with Raag Mala Music Society of Toronto, this event explores the deep connections between North Indian Hindustani music and South Indian Carnatic music with an exceptional performance featuring two masterful artists, Pankaj Mishra, and Radhika Baskar. 

Pankaj Mishra, a Sarangi maestro from the Banaras Gharana, was trained by the esteemed Pt. Mahesh Prasad Mishra. With performances at prestigious events in India and internationally, Mishra brings the soulful essence of North Indian Hindustani music to this collaboration. He is also the founder of a school for Indian Classical Music in Germany. 

Radhika Baskar, an accomplished Veena artist, represents the rich tradition of Carnatic music from southern India. Known for her expertise in Thanam improvisation, Radhika blends classical Carnatic music with diverse influences, including Western classical, fusion, and jazz. Now based in Canada, she continues to innovate through her solo performances and collaborations. 

Together, these two artists create a unique musical experience that bridges the rich traditions of North and South Indian classical music, offering audiences a glimpse into the shared heritage and distinct expressions of these ancient art forms. 

This session includes a diverse selection of devotional poetry commonly recited among Ismaili Muslim communities as forms of devotional expressions. Recitations include poems, Tajik Pamiri madoh, South Asian ginans, Persian and Arabic qasidas and nasheed. 

Culminating from a unique residency at the Aga Khan Museum, this interdisciplinary event features the powerful collaboration of Métis artist Moe Clark and Moroccan artist Hatim Belyamani (HAT), who bring together their unique heritages to explore the sacred in music and performance. 

Drawing from Indigenous traditions and Sufi practices from across the globe, Clark and Belyamani will guide us through a transformative experience that highlights the deep connections between these ancient spiritual practices. As they intertwine their artistic expressions, the audience will witness the fusion of distinct cultural threads—each with its own nuances and rhythms—into a harmonious whole. 

This event promises to be an immersive journey into the sacred, where the universal and the particular converge, offering new perspectives on ritual and the enduring power of music to connect us all. 

Presented in partnership with Raag Mala Music Society of Toronto, Rudra Veena virtuoso Bahauddin Dagar invites you to journey through the meditative depths of sound. Playing an instrument rarely heard in Canada, Dagar brings to life the timeless resonance of the Rudra Veena, an instrument central to Indian classical music for centuries. 

Committed to sharing the spiritual Sufi and Irfan traditions while exploring new movements, Rumi Canada facilitates the experience of unity and love through music, performance, and poetry. They will be accompanied by Persian Sufi music as they perform whirling dervishes, showcasing the ancient form of this sacred practice.