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Seika Boye is an Assistant Professor and Founder/Director of the Institute for Dance Studies at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto. Her interdisciplinary work bridges dance, Blackness, archival theory, and embodied pedagogies, with a focus on public scholarship and institutional critique.
- PhD, University of Toronto
- MA and BFA, York University
Her research explores:
- Black Canadian dance history
- Eugenicist legacies in education
- Movement-based knowledge systems
- Digital humanities methodologies
- Performance curation
- Decolonial archival practices
Recent publications address dance in Canadian cultural politics (2025), eugenics in Ontario (2022), and archival ethics (2021). Her work integrates critical race theory with movement analysis, emphasizing marginalized bodily practices.
Scientific awards include:
- SSHRC Partnership Grant (2024-2031)
- Dance Studies Association Dance in the Public Sphere Award (2021)
- Lieutenant Governor’s Heritage Trust Award (2019)
- University of Toronto Experiential Learning Fellowship (2023-26)
She collaborates with artists like Natasha Powell/Holla Jazz and Djanet Sears, and co-curated It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 (2018) and Into the Light: Eugenics and Education (2019). Current projects include This Living Dancer, an archival simulation at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
