skye rogers

Skye Rogers (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary performing artist based in Hamilton and the Niagara Region. With roots in dance, theatre, and music, her creative practice is dearly devoted to cultivating connection in both personal and communal spheres, through the intersection of a collection of mediums. Skye is a graduate of the Randolph College for the Performing Arts (2019), representing her class as Valedictorian and recipient of both the Triple Threat Award and the Governor General’s Bronze Medal. Recently, Skye was the first person to obtain a Certificate in the “Arts and Culture Studies” program at Brock University (2022), where she extended her skills in the behind-the-scenes work of performance production and artistic administration.

Skye is the daughter of artists, tracing her earliest influences back to infancy and a childhood surrounded by musicians and creatives of all sorts. Through her own artistic metamorphosis, Skye has also been heavily influenced by the artists and teachers who have mentored her through the years; Niagara choreographer/ dance enthusiast Alice Burke, Toronto writing-duo Johnson & Johnston, Artistic Director extraordinaire Deanna Jones… the list goes on. Relationships are at the heart of Skye’s artistry; her favourite projects being those which involve collaboration and community, and her gratitude towards her own mentors being translated through her teaching practice. In her creative work, Skye’s embodied style is collage-like; informed by the shapes and spaces of her surroundings mixed with the rhythm and groove of her musical pulse. Fluently articulating her heart through her extremities and expressions, Skye’s vision is to expand her audience’s capacity for emotion, imagination, and compassion.

Skye is always excited to continue to flourish artistically as she applies her never-ending learning to her creative process and work within her community.

  • So far this year, Skye has been focused on continuing to collect new techniques and practices through performances and workshops abroad, as well as developing new work locally, in collaboration with other artists. She went to New York City on scholarship to participate in Third Rail Project’s “Creative Process” Workshop with Jeannine Willet. Skye was a part of a few performances for In the Soil Arts Festival, including the debut of a dance anthology made with collaborator Vik Mudge, entitled “The Body and The Brain.” Vik and Skye also had the opportunity to partner with the City of St. Catharines to lead a community movement workshop, assisting the City’s public research for the development of the new Culture Plan. In the summer, Skye was an Artist in Residence at Eucharist Church, and created an inter-disciplinary show, hybriding performances with visual galleries. To cap off the year, Skye began producing a series of dance & movement workshops in St. Catharines, thanks to a SCCIP Grant, and worked on the Canadian premiere of “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812” as the RBC Apprentice Choreographer with Toronto’s Musical Stage Co.

  • In 2022, Skye was a participant of Suitcase In Point’s NEST Artist Residency, where she created a communal, joy-centered “happening” for In the Soil Fest in Downtown St. Catharines. She was also the LOVES Artist in Residence at Kim Odine’s Studio, where she choreographed and presented her first solo dance piece, “what is woman?” under the mentorship of international Canadian choreographer Meagan O’Shea (Stand Up Dance). This later led to the opportunity to perform in one of Meagan’s new works, “Anatomalia,” in Berlin, Germany, that Fall.