Anisa Tejpar

Dora Mavor Moore Award winner, Anisa Tejpar is originally from Toronto, and is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School. She has performed works by Matjash Mrozewski, John Neumeier, Guillaume Côté, Ginette Laurin, Peggy Baker, Robert Derosiers, Robert Glumbek, Roberto Campanella, James Kudelka, Christopher House, and Hanna Kiel, and in companies such as Toronto Dance Theatre, ProArteDanza, Against the Grain Theatre and Human Body Expression. 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, Kanye West, The Rolling Stones, PUMA, TIFF, Telus, Evergreen Brickworks, and M.A.C. Cosmetics, and Casa Loma, amongst many others. Anisa 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.

Anisa currently teaches ballet at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) in the Performance Program. She also is a creative assistant and outside-eye for Guillaume Côté and Côté Danse, and is one third of the Toronto-based, contemporary dance collective The Platform with Ryan Lee and Benjamin Landsberg. Anisa is an Intimacy Coordinator and Director. She is also the host of 'Inside the Arts' on Sauga 960AM radio.

Tejpar is also a current member of the Board of Directors of Canada’s National Ballet School, and on the Performance Program Advisory Committee for St. Lawrence College.