Seika Boye is a writer, scholar, educator, and artist whose practices revolve around dance and movement. She is an Assistant Professor and Founder/Director of the Institute for Dance Studies, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto.
 
Seika has worked as a professional modern/postmodern dance artist across Canada with companies including Ballet Creole, Judith Marcuse Projects, Electric Company Theatre and many independent artists in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. She is certified in Donna Krasnow’s Conditioning and Imagery Training for Dancers and has taught movement for actors at UofT since 2013. She continues to work as a movement dramaturg, most recently, with Natasha Powell’s Holla Jazz.
 
From 2004 – 2011 Seika worked as an archives and publishing assistant at Dance Collection Danse and writer and editor for the Dance Current. She is widely published and is co-editor with MJ Thompson of the essay collection Power Moves: Dance, Culture, Politics (2025).
 
In 2018 Seika curated the archival exhibition It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 (2018) and co-curated with Mona Stonefish, Peter Park, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Evadne Kelly and Sky Stonefish — Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario (2019) which received the Lieutenant Governor’s Heritage Trust Award. In 2018, Seika was an artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is currently a Co-Director of the SSHRC Partnership Grant Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performance.
 
In her free time, Seika loves reading and gardening.  

Photo credit: Craig Boyko