KAJA IRWIN
KAJA IRWIN

 

Performances

2023 TBC, Calgary, Kaja Irwin and Nate Chiang, Nicole Mion Fluid Fest

2023. Family of Jazz Tour, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2023 Nervous Systems, Calgary, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2023 Snake, Rattle and Roll, Xstine Cook, Dolly Wiggler Cabaret

2023 Old/New/Borrowed/Blue, Calgary, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2022 tethered relativity: three movements or were they vamps? , Calgary, Kaja Irwin and Mark Limacher, Springboard Performance and New Works Calgary

2022 Family of Jazz, Calgary, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2022 Amplified, Calgary, Sabrina Naz Comanescu, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2021 suspending disbelief, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2021 Limbo, Calgary, Kaja Irwin, Xstine Cook, Slamalicious

2021 TBC, Calgary, Kaja Irwin and Nathaniel Chiang, Nicole Mion, Fluid Fest

2021 M+F, Calgary, Kaja Irwin, Xstine Cook, Dolly Wiggler Cabaret

2020 HelloOoo, Calgary, Kaja Irwin, Nicole Mion, Fluid Fest

2020 Corey Moranis S/S Short Film, Toronto, Kaja Irwin, Corey Moranis, Michele Ayoub

2020 Juliet and Romeo, Calgary Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2019 Juliet and Romeo Canadian Tour, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2019 Lovestruck, Calgary, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2019 HOWL, Calgary, Kaja Irwin, to the AWE

2019 Better Get Hit In Your Soul, Calgary, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2018   Mimic, Calgary, Kimberley Cooper, Peter Balkwill, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2017   Velocity, Calgary, Catherine Hayward, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2017   VROOM, Calgary, Kaja Irwin, Fluid Festival 

2017   Modern Vaudevillians Calgary, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2017   Juliet and Romeo, Calgary, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2016    If I Should Stumble, Toronto, Jenn Goodwin

2016    New Universe, Calgary, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2015     Gravity Players, Calgary, Kimberley Cooper, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

2015     Solo/Souls Deep, Toronto, Sharon Harvey

2015     Flesh Garden, Amsterdam, Guy Berube

2014     If I Should Stumble, Toronto, Jenn Goodwin

2014     Beautiful and Damned, Toronto, Lena Wiklund Hetta Dance Company

2014     MAIM, Ottawa, Kaja Irwin/Gillian King

2013     L, Winnipeg, Reanna Joseph, Evolve Dance Company

2013     Full Tilt, Winnipeg, Paula Blair, Prairie Dancers

2012     Canvas Pulse Collective, Winnipeg, Kaja Irwin/Claire Hardy

2012     Westbound:Stories, Winnipeg, Reanna Joseph, Evolve Dance Company at a Bus Stop

2012     Traction, Winnipeg, Paula Blair, Prairie Dancers

2011     Alberta Dance Festival, Calgary, Cayley Hanrahan

2011     Alberta Dance Festival, Calgary, Jennifer Mahood

2011     Prairie Dance Circuit, Regina, Alison (Bryan) Stone

2010     Live and in Sync!, Calgary, Joanne Baker

2010     Alberta Dance Explosions, Calgary, Deanne Walsh

2010     Freakshow, Calgary, Alison (Bryan) Stone

2010     AIR, Calgary, Alison (Bryan) Stone

2010     Why Dance Two, Calgary, Michele Moss

2009     Alberta Dance Explosions, Calgary, Deanne Walsh

2009     Alberta Dance Explosions, Calgary, Erinn Liebhard

 

Choreography

2023 TBC, Nicole Mion, Fluid Fest HawtSpawt Cabaret

2023 Snake, Rattle and Roll, Xstine Cook, Dolly Wiggler Cabaret

2023 Epistrophy, Jamie Freeman Cormack, Ingrid Diaz, Footprints

2022 What is Love? Xstine Cook, Dolly Wiggler Cabaret

2022 Polygon, Jamie Freeman Cormack, Footprints

2021 Limbo, Xstine Cook, Slamalicious

2021 TBC, Nicole Mion, Fluid Fest Physical Cabaret

2021 Circus Mirandus, Jessalyn Britton, Alicia Ward, Alberta Dance Theatre

2021 M+F, Xstine Cook, Dolly Wiggler Cabaret

2020 HelloOoo, Nicole Mion, Fluid Fest Cabaret

2020 Deck the Halls, Jessalyn Britton, Alicia Ward, Alberta Dance Theatre

2019 HOWL, Pam Tzeng Elaine Weryshko, to the AWE

2018 League of Monsters, Jennifer Mahood, Alberta Dance Theatre

2018 Withheld, Sasha Ivanochko, Annual Alberta Dance Festival

2017 An Impossible Question Means a Journey, Jennifer Mahood, Alberta Dance Theatre

2017    child of chaotic powers, Catherine Hayward, Velocity 

2017    VROOM, Nicole Mion, Fluid Festival

2017    Resurrected View, Davida Monk, Annual Alberta Dance Festival

2017    The shell is now a cave which opens for you alone, Jamie Freeman Cormack, Footprints

2016     Walk Out On the Water, Dan Huiting, Royal Canoe Music Video

2016     Somersault, Nathan Boey, Royal Canoe Music Video

2014     Untitled, Vox Novous, 60x60 Dance Festival

2014     MAIM, Kaja Irwin/Gillian King, Art Opening

2013     Saboteur, Reanna Joseph, “L”

2013     Mantis, Paula Blair, Traction

2012     Gorilla Killer, Romeo Suban, Urban Legends

2012     Vandals, Reanna Joseph, Westbound: Stories at a Bus Stop

2012     Nightworkers, Reanna Joseph,  Westbound: Stories at a Bus Stop

2012     Let’s Take this on the Road!, Reanna Joseph, Westbound: Stories at a Bus Stop

2011     B&B,  Jamie Freeman, Cormack Footprints

2010     Croaking the Crickets, Jamie Freeman, Cormack Footprints



Teaching

2017- Present    Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, Calgary, Joanne Baker

2015-2018     Danza, Calgary, Hannah Stilwell

2011-2013          Studio 393/Graffiti Gallery, Winnipeg, Bob Veruela Jr

2011-2013          Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Winnipeg, Kelly Bale

2009-2011          Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, Calgary, Vicki Adams Willis

 

Other

Sept 2014-2018     Ryerson University Certificate Program Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector                          Management

2005-2008                   University of Manitoba B.A. Political Science Major Economics Minor

2011-2012                   350 hours Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training – Jonathon Austman

2011                             Tour Manager Live and in Sync! Decidedly Jazz Danceworks