BRCTP: Summer Faculty & Schedule

Caleigh Hunter (she/her) is a mover and movement educator living and working on the unceded traditional territories of the T’Sou-ke and Scia’new Nations. Deeply passionate about movement and community, Caleigh believes that movement and education builds empowered communities.

With a strong educational and in-practice background, Caleigh teaches dance, and multiple movement modalities, through an approach that blends science with spirit; motion with mindfulness. She is especially passionate about working with youth, teens, and young adults, supporting the development of healthy, sustainable relationships with movement.

Caleigh is currently in her 11th season as a company dancer with Rhythmical Contemporary Company Broken Rhythms (2015–present), sharing work locally and on tour. Her training in modern, tap, ballet, jazz, and contemporary informs her ongoing dedication to the Rhythmical Contemporary style of Broken Rhythms.

Holding certifications in dance, yoga, strength, Pilates, and Reiki energy work, Caleigh encourages movers to balance anatomical safety and efficiency with creative expression and self-exploration. She has taught with schools, studios, universities, and community organizations, including the Times Colonist, Run for the Cure, International Dance Day, and lululemon.

An advocate for movement education, Caleigh has studied at institutions across Canada, the UK, and the USA, including the University of Derby, Middlesex University, Camosun College/Center for Sport and Exercise Education, Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. She holds a Master of Arts in Professional Practice Somatic Studies, a Bachelor in Sport and Fitness, multiple movement certifications, and her AISTD in Modern and Tap. She is currently completing her Doctorate in Sport and Exercise Professional Practice at the University of Derby.

Caleigh is deeply grateful to share space, practice, and the stage with the communities she moves alongside, especially her Broken Rhythms family.

Dyana was born at home on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron peoples. She is a choreographer, dance instructor, Executive/Artistic Director of the Victoria-based dance company Broken Rhythms and style creator of Rhythmical Contemporary. Dyana is a staple in the local dance community with weekly classes at the iconic Raino Dance studio, Victoria Academy of Ballet, Canadian Collage of Performing Arts and is a popular guest instructor at many studios across Canada. She has been nationally recognized for her choreography, community work and artistic direction with nine Pick of the Fringe awards, nominations for the inaugural Pro Arts Regional award, finalist for Monday Magazine’s Best Dance company, awarded the LOLA Project International, working with Gabi Beier from Berlin, Germany and was most recently presented with the title of B.C Cultural ambassador due to her work with community engagement and recognition of artistic excellence.

Dyana has been commissioned to set choreography on local and national companies, received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council and the CRD, and has been invited to lecture at universities about creativity, dance and gender performance. Her productions and choreography have been performed nationally, including  Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and toured all across B.C. She has studied and performed widely, including at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (London, England), Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (Calgary), and One Immigrant Productions (Toronto). She is continuously collaborating with artists across the disciplines, while simultaneously working with her company on creative projects with featured work in Dance Current Magazine and Boulevard Magazine and her touring shows named as one of Toronto Star’s “can’t miss shows”. Dyana continues to engage in contemporary multi-disciplinary areas of study and performance, most recently completing her Masters thesis in Sociology at the University of Victoria with a focus on movement and bodies through the lens of gender, race, history, and ballet/contemporary dance works.