Performance Team (University of Alberta Open Styles Dance)

2023 Showcase Choreographer Biographies

Learn more about the 2023 Dance YEG Showcase performers!
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And get your tickets for the December 2, 2023 show here!

Gracelli - Gracelli is a well-rounded dancer who has trained in various styles. She is also a theatre artist that enjoys fusing movement and story to create pieces that portray various concepts. Currently, she is one of the co-presidents of Open Styles Dance at the U of A, she works to expand the dance community and various movement genres! Her contemporary style has lately been exploring dancers' relationships with the music, each other and the floor. She hopes to portray a story to pull at your heartstrings! Follow her on instagram @graycelois!

Siri - Siri Iris has been a part of Open Styles Dance since 2019, and since then, she has taken classes, taught periodically and was Co-President 2020-21. She focuses on femme styles and dancehall; however, she also loves freestyling and seeing where her mind takes her while creating. She currently studies leisure and sport management and was recently diagnosed with ADHD and is a self-diagnosed autistic, all of which inform her creative projects and how she engages in them! You can follow her journey on Instagram @siri.iris.eleven!

Mel - There is a special euphoric feeling that comes with listening to music and hitting those hi-hats or grooving that base out in dance. Parallel with one another, Mel’s passion for dance and music came into the spotlight as she explored new styles by taking drop in classes at a couple of studios in Edmonton and continued to freestyle. She recently performed with OSD for United YEG, K-Days Thousand Faces Festival, and more. Some of her favourite dance styles include modern, contemporary, hip hop, popping and locking, and lyrical which heavily influence her dance style and choreography.