Sean Def

Sean Def is a dance artist and educator, working primarily between Canada and the United Kingdom. Born and raised in Toronto, Sean began his dance career as a lead choreographer for the Silhouettes Dance Company and FOREAL Dance company. He later attended the Scholarship Toronto Commercial Dance Training Program and the Professional Training Program at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks. He has had the opportunity to create and perform work for the Toronto Original Choreographers’ Ball, Hart House Festival of Dance, DanceOntario Weekend, Pride Toronto, NUIT ROSE Contemporary Art Festival, Ballet Urbano (a division of the National Ballet of Ecuador), the Chris Palacio Dance Project in New York, and Calgary’s O2 Dance Company. Sean was a selected artist in the New Blue Festival for Emerging Dance in 2017, the IGNITE! Festival for Emerging Artists in 2018, and the Annual Alberta Dance Festival in 2018.