Seika Boye is a writer, scholar, educator, and artist whose practices revolve around dance and movement. She is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Institute for Dance Studies at Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. 

Following a career in modern/post-modern dance, Boye has worked as a movement dramaturg with artists Djanet Sears, Deanna Bowen, Syreeta Hector, Heidi Strauss, and Natasha Powell. Widely published, Boye is co-editor with MJ Thompson of the essay collection Power Moves: Dance, Culture, Politics (2025). In 2018, she curated the award winning touring, archival exhibition It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now. Boye was Artist-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2018-19) and is currently Co-Investigator/Director on the SSHRC Partnership Grant Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performance. 

Photo credit: Craig Boyko