Behind the scenes
CO-FOUNDER/ PRODUCER/ HOST
Nicole Inica Hamilton is an award-winning choreographer and the Founder/ Artistic Director of Inica Dance Industries. A certified educator and member of Dance Masters of Canada and Dance Masters of America, Hamilton has served as a guest teacher, mentor and speaker at institutes across Canada including but not limited to; George Brown College, University of Toronto, York University and University of Calgary. She has presented at national and international conventions including; the En Avant-RAD World Convention, the Toronto Dance Teacher Expo, Creation Championships, the Performing Arts Medicine Association and more. Hamilton is an on-air radio host at CIUT 89.5 FM and the producer/ host of Turn Out Radio. She reports on the current news affairs of our time with a special focus on arts, health, career, and business news. Hamilton is the in-suite moderator for the Dora Mavor Moore award-winning dance Immersion and has operated as a guest correspondent on media and discussion platforms across Canada including the Career Buzz Show, and Fall for Dance North’s Mambo Podcast. Her voice has been featured on national commercials, film, and television networks where she has moderated, and facilitated conversations with leaders across the globe. Follow Nicole Inica Hamilton HERE.
ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER/ EDITOR
Amber Downie-Back is a dancer and interdisciplinary artist interested in integrating dance in collaborative contexts with other media such as music and video art. Her practice views the reflection of natural spaces in the digital world through transformative experiences that are intimate, communal, and atmospheric. Downie-Back has a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University and has performed professionally at Festival TransAmeriques (2019), Montréal Fringe Festival (2018), Art Matters (2018), and others. Her creations have been shared at the Toronto Harbourfront Centre, by Impulse Theatre (Victoria), Kalyx Collective (Montréal), and more. Amber is currently living on the unceded territory belonging to the Lekwungen Peoples, on whose territory she is grateful to perform and dance.
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EDITOR
Brittany Baah, is a graduate of Fanshawe’s accredited Radio Broadcasting program and Audio Post-Production graduate program. Her career has included working as station staff at Fanshawe’s “106.9 The X”, and as Marketing Rep for ELMNT FM “106.5”. Selected credits include operating as Recordist/Producer at the “Jazz Junction” Radio Show, and as Camera Operator at the “Share The Land 2023” Concert. Baah is the recipient of Bell Media’s “Radio Producer of the Year” at the 2022 Fanshawe Broadcast Awards.