Kaya Tsurumi (she/her) is an emerging contemporary dance artist who grew up on Kwikwetlem First Nations territory (Coquitlam, BC, Canada). Kaya received her post-secondary dance education from Arts Umbrella and Modus Operandi. Her curiosity in non-traditional dance formats has led her to dance in site-specific projects by Eilish Shin Culhane and Sarah U, in addition to creating her own dance film that screened in F-O-R-M’s short film program in 2021. Inspired largely by past teachers and choreographers, Kaya is developing her own improvisation practice that she can use in her creative projects. For this project, she is collaborating with filmmaker Ethan Volberg to discover the ebbs and flows between cinema and movement.