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Courtesy of Blessyl Buan

Ephemera: The Art We Didn’t Make


October 3-4, 2026
7:00 PM to 7:00 AM
Toronto's Old City Hall
Free public performance and participatory installation
Old City Hall, 60 Queen St W. M5H 2M3 (VIEW MAP)

Accessibility Info: Wheelchair accessible


Ephemera: The Art We Didn’t Make is the premiere of a new site-responsive work by multidisciplinary artist and choreographer Blessyl Buan, presented in collaboration with Toronto Dance Theatre and Nuit Blanche Toronto. By transforming public space into a living archive of unfinished dreams, this project explores abandoned ideas and unrealized expression. Engaging the historic architecture of Toronto’s Old City Hall, the work considers what ideas are given the conditions to grow and what remains buried beneath systems of survival, labour and time.

Through choreography, sound and an evolving participatory installation, audiences encounter traces of creative lives interrupted, deferred and waiting to be witnessed. Throughout the night, dancers move through a shifting landscape of fragments, shadows, gestures and accumulations, while visitors contribute reflections and offerings to the installation. As these materials gather over 12 hours, the work transforms from a landscape of buried ideas into a living ecosystem of witnessing, where unrealized expressions are honoured and given space to grow.

Featuring TDT’s company dancers: Camil Bellefleur, Millina Aaliyah Fletcher aka Fletch, Megumi Kokuba, Ry Kostyniuk, Roberto Soria, and Elizabeth Yip.

About the Choreographer

Photo by Ryan Buan

Blessyl Buan

Blessyl Buan is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist working across choreography, visual art, installation, and participatory practice. Rooted in embodiment and decades of movement practice, her work explores witnessing, cultural memory, and restoring dignity to unseen voices, histories, and creative impulses. Her projects include BABAElan, commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario; Kapwa Kaleidoscope at Clark Centre for the Arts; and The Dream Weave for Nuit Blanche Toronto 2025. Through collective making, movement, and material exploration, she transforms public space into sites of reflection, participation, and possibility. Her newest work, Ephemera: The Art We Didn’t Make, will premiere at Nuit Blanche Toronto 2026, co-presented with Toronto Dance Theatre.

About the Performers

Camil Bellefleur 2024 headshot Photo by McKenzie James

Camil Bellefleur

Based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal and Tkaronto/Toronto, Camil Bellefleur is an emerging contemporary dance artist. They completed their training at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal in 2020 and have danced with Daina Ashbee, Charlie Prince, Jean Benoit-Labrecque, LA TRESSE Collective and Le Radeau. They completed their training in inclusive dance approaches with Corpuscule Danse. Camil’s solo work entitled First Layers was presented at Tangente in 2022 and at the first edition of the Mauricie Arts Vivants festival in 2023, for which they were a finalist for the Creative Momentum award of Culture Mauricie. They are currently working on their next creation, Queer Core – Embodiment.

To deepen their artistic approach oriented towards social change, Camil completed a cumulative bachelor’s degree at UQÀM in 2023, which includes a certificate in Critical Sexuality Studies, a second in Feminist Studies, and a third in Sociology.

They wish to make their bodily practice a space for emancipatory healing, liberation, transformation, risk-taking, and a safe space for growing together.

Millina Fletch Fletcher 2024 headshot Photo by McKenzie James

Millina Aaliyah Fletcher aka FLETCH

Millina Aaliyah Fletcher, AKA Fletch (any pronouns) is a Tkaronto based dance artist and a proud lesbian of Barbadian/Franco-Ontarienne mixed heritage. Fletch is a well versed, expressive, outgoing and open minded individual who sees the world as an abundant site for colour and creativity. Fletch identifies as a dancer, choreographer, music enthusiast, and an extrovert who enjoys expressing identity and queerness through dance and fashion.
Megumi Kokuba 2024 headshot Photo by McKenzie James

Megumi Kokuba

Megumi Kokuba was born on the southernmost island of Japan, Okinawa. She studied ballet with joy from the age of two. After graduating from College in Okinawa, Megumi came across contemporary dance and was smitten. She moved to Toronto to train in dance and is a proud graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre (now Dance Arts Institute). Megumi joined the company as a TD Dance Intern in 2012/2013, and she has had many inspiring creation and performance opportunities in Toronto ever since. As a dance artist, her main focus is to help the environment. Actions like listening, holding space and prioritizing active communication are at the forefront of her personal practice.

Ryan Kostyniuk 2024 headshot Photo by McKenzie James

Ry Kostyniuk

Ry Kostyniuk is a queer artist born and raised in Sylvan Lake, Alberta and is currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto. They are a graduate from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre (2019) and has danced with Toronto Dance Theatre since their 2019/2020 season. They have performed works by many acclaimed choreographers across Canada as well as international choreographers Emese Nagy (MA•ZE) and Shannon Gillen (VimVigor). Ry has choreographed solo/duet works which have been performed in Toronto, and toured internationally. They currently find inspiration from the queer nightlife and rave scene, and continue to explore themes in their work based around sexuality, and gender expression.

Roberto Soria 2024 headshot Photo by McKenzie James

Roberto Soria

Roberto is the new era no longer restricted by time she walks the earth with patience noticing how all is changing he doesn’t interfere she listens he watches ready for nothing yet it all shows it’s true colours the sun and the moon have her life and it’s the random that keeps him alive.

I am Roberto Soria, and as a seeker of pleasure it only makes sense that movement has been a part of my life for so many years.

I am:
a raver
a dj/creator of noise
a lover
a photographer/filmmaker
a sagittarius
a company dancer for toronto dance theatre
and friendly so if you see me in the street come say hi!

Photo by McKenzie James

Elizabeth Yip

Elizabeth Yip 葉倩儀 (b. 2001) is a contemporary dance artist from Vancouver, Canada. Her dance practice is grounded in passion, dynamics, and emotion. She is a graduate of Modus Operandi under the direction of Kate Franklin, Tiffany Tregarthen, and David Raymond and received the Fall 2023 EDAM Training Scholarship in contact improvisation. Elizabeth has performed and originated roles in work by Yin Yue Dance, Shay Kuebler/RSA, b. solomon, Nicolas Ventura, Khoudia Touré, and Zahra Shahab. Elizabeth pursues work that is that is theatrical, virtuosic, and tender. Her past artistic choreographic residencies include the Scotiabank Dance Centre, Boombox, and Vines Art Festival. Before joining TDT, she was an apprentice with Shay Kuebler/RSA.

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