Karen was in Sweden in a final creative phase of Jaberi Dance Theatre's new full length work Architecture of Violence. As Co-choreographer with Roshanak Jaberi and Creative Advisor on the project, she continues her wonderful collaborative relationship with Roshanak and the company. ‘Architecture of Violence’ premiered & toured in Sweden in September. Thanks to presenting partner Scenkonst Sörmland for commissioning JDT to create this work, and to Canadian partner TO Live @tolivegram for supporting the development through a technical residency at the Meridian Arts Centre this June.

Get ready, Toronto! We are thrilled to announce the beloved 13th annual Porch View Dances is back! As our city is rapidly changing, we welcome the new, and say farewell to some old time favourite landmarks like Famoso Pizzeria. Explore the page for more info about the team, artists, choreograhers, guides, and more.

Porch View Dances' Light Up a Porch campaign can pair you, a donor, with one of three commissioned works to imbue a creative feast. Every donation counts to directly support the festival to bring to life "a poster child for site-specific dance done right" (Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail). Donate today and find out which commissioned porch you have been matched with! A big thank you for your continued support of Porch View Dances 2024 and shining your light on this campaign.

Mist Me was selected for the 22nd edition Female Eye Film Festival (FeFF) from July 18 – July 21st, 2024 and received an honourable mention!

Mist Me was part of the Ontario Filmmaker Series on Thursday, July 18 at the Paradise Theatre (1006c Bloor Street W. Toronto). We extend our thanks to FeFF for their acknowledgment.

In a moving painting, Mist Me is about an artist who searches for her 6-year-old self. Amidst childhood traumas and adult treasures, she finds expansive flight in aging.

Karen and Allen Kaeja will tour for 3 weeks in beautiful British Columbia with a BCMAS New Creation Residency and performances of their lifeDUETs - Lasterday and 25 to 1, plus In Case of Fire community work. They will also teach in Kelowna and perform Lasterday at Dancing on the Edge (DOTE).

The Art of Flying, taught by Allen Kaeja, is the first of 3 levels of certification for Kaeja Elevations® (KE), an approach to partnering where participants from all experience levels are on an equal playing field.

Mayumi joins Porch View Dances as the Artistic Producer & Curator. She looks forward to programming the festival to reflect the vibrance and cultural diversity of the community.

Based on Porch View Dances, Karen and Allen Kaeja launched into co-producers with MAK DanceFilm Collective to premier a 5 film series that bring together an exciting team of 6 choreographers, 9 pro dancers and non-pro dancers.

Kitchen Dances premiered at Dance Camera West Film Festival 2024. Kitchen Dances was in a special screening at the Cannes Short Film Festival 2024 in London, UK.

12th Annual Porch View Dances (PVD) celebrates the stories of our local neighbourhood by taking dance out of the theatre and into our daily lives. Welcoming Co-Curator and Artistic Producer Sofi Gudiño and Co-Curator Sid Ryan Eilers to the PVD team this year.

The Smith Fine Arts Series in Monmouth, Oregon, curated a program of Kaeja work, including: TouchX' Solo1 performed by Nickeshia Garrick, Karen and Allen’s performance of 25 to 1 lifeDUET.

Karen, Allen and Nickeshia performed ‘In Case of Fire’, inviting some of Oregon’s finest mature contact dance artists.

Allen created a new Kaeja Elevation focused work on the dancers in Western Oregon University, which toured parts of western USA.

Lasterday, a duet performed by Karen and Allen, premiered at Older + Reckless in November 2023. This commissioned lifeDUET by Hanna Kiel explores how two individuals carry different memories and perceptions of the same events from their shared past.

Allen Kaeja join’s Dance Collection Danse’s Discover Diaglogues to discuss his article “Moving Memories: Kaeja Explores the Holocaust through Dance and Film,” in honour of Holocaust Education Week 2023.

8-COUNT Short Dance Film Series (part of Fall for Dance North 2023) featured 8 selected short films by national and international creators, including Karen and Allen Kaeja’s “Challah”, exploring Holocaust ancestry's impact, and “Locked”, from the Kitchen Dances series.

The American Dance Festival 2023 featured “Slipping” (co-directed and co-choreographed by Roshanak Jaberi and Karen), plus “Challah” and “Locked” - two of our Kitchen Dances films produced by MAK Dancefilm Collective (Moze Mossanen, Karen and Allen)

Currently under construction

A new film presented by the City of Mississauga.

Short performances across the City of Toronto to promote 31 (TouchX + I am the Child of…)

Four emerging artists who expanded their artistic practices with Kaeja during 2022.

In case of fire was performed in New Brunswick in 2021 and in Oregon in early 2023.

Created with Black Women Film! with choreography by Karen Kaeja.

Two short films created in different seasons in 2021.

Mio Sakamoto was the first year-long Artist in Residence in Kaeja d’Dance’s 30-year history.

A livestream performance for Fab Collab on International Women’s Day.

A single-take livestream performance experience devised for #CanadaPerforms National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts during COVID-19.

In 2020. Porch View Dances moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A short dance film created on a snowy pandemic morning.

Part of The Bentway’s Safe in Public Space initiative.

A film made of gestures of connection from dancers and community members during the COVID-19 pandemic.