Burn Baby, Burn: With Anisa Tejpar and Carleen Zouboules
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM
Airing Date: June 4, 2025
Host/ Producer: Nicole Inica Hamilton
Featured Guest(s): Anisa Tejpar and Carleen Zouboules
On this episode, Anisa Tejpar and Carleen Zouboules discuss the many facets of their artistic work and practices, and open up about the highly anticipated return of the production Burn Baby, Burn by Guillaume Côté + Côté Danse, which explores humanity’s power to ignite change. Presented in partnership with TO Live and Show One Productions, the work is on stage June 6-8, 2025.
About Anisa Tejpar:
Dora Mavor Moore Award winner, Anisa Tejpar (she/her) is originally from Toronto, and is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School. She has performed works by Guillaume Côté, Matjash Mrozewski, John Neumeier, Ginette Laurin, Mauro Astolfi, Peggy Baker, Robert Derosiers, Robert Glumbek, Roberto Campanella, D.A. Hoskins, James Kudelka, Christopher House, Hanna Kiel, and William Yong and in companies such as Toronto Dance Theatre, Zata Omm, ProArteDanza, Against the Grain Theatre and Human Body Expression.
Ms. Tejpar is Co-Artistic Director of the dance entertainment firm Hit & Run Dance Productions Inc. (www.hitandrun.ca), for which she has created works for artists and brands all over Canada including: NIKE, The Rolling Stones, PUMA, TIFF, Telus, Lupe Fiasco, Evergreen Brickworks, M.A.C. Cosmetics, and Casa Loma, amongst many others. Ms. Tejpar is the co-creator of Haunted Cinema, a live-immersive drive-in experience. She is also the pilot choreographer of Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report and co-choreographer of the video game Far Cry: Primal and performed in the game as well.
Ms. Tejpar is Associate Producer with Côté Danse and serves as Creative Assistant in Guillaume Côté’s new creations and remounts. Ms. Tejpar currently teaches Consent + Boundaries for Dancers at Toronto Metropolitan University in the Performance Program and is one third of the Toronto-based, contemporary dance collective The Platform with Ryan Lee and Benjamin Landsberg.
Ms. Tejpar is an Intimacy Coordinator and Director, having worked on stage productions with The National Ballet of Canada, Ballet BC, and several films and episodics, including Star Trek: Section 31, Orphan Black: Echoes, Beacon 23, Darkest Miriam, and the highly anticipated Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Ms. Tejpar is a current member of the Board of Directors of Canada’s National Ballet School, and on the Advisory Committee for The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has also worked extensively with Dancing with Parkinson’s and served as choreographer and director for their Intergenerational Dance Project connecting youth and seniors through dance.
About Carleen Zouboules:
Carleen Zouboules is an accomplished artist and performer who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Toronto Metropolitan University. She has established herself as a dynamic and versatile presence in the Toronto dance scene, dancing for companies including Côté Dansé, ProArteDanza, Red Sky Performance, and Zata Omm Dance Productions. She recently premiered as Ophelia in Guillaume Côté & Robert Lepage’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark at The Elgin Theater in April 2024. She has performed at Fall For Dance North on separate occasions, in works by Jera Wolfe and Anne Plamondon. She has had the pleasure of dancing in stage works by Lesley Telford, Chantelle Good, Roberto Campanella, Robert Glumbek, Tori Mehaffey, William Yong, and Guillaume Côte.
On camera, she has danced at the MTV Video Music Awards, in the feature film Sweat, and in the creative film Eden Planted. Zouboules is also passionate about creation. She has choreographed for Night Shift, presented by Citadel + Compagnie in collaboration with Fall for Dance North, and recently collaborated with choreographic partner Vania Dodoo-Beals to set a work on the Toronto Metropolitan University students in 2023. She also assisted William Yong at the National Ballet of Canada when he set his work Utopiverse, which premiered in 2024.
In all her endeavors, Carleen Zouboules is an artist driven by the magic of emotion and movement. From interpreting, to collaborating, to choreographing, she leans into the depth of movement and where it truly comes from.
📸 (L) to (R) Anisa Tejpar by Shawn Bracke and Carleen Zouboules by Jaclyn Vogland
