Valerie Calam is a Toronto based choreographer, dancer, teacher, and sound designer. Her recent choreographic commissions include works for Toronto Dance Theatre, Ryerson University, and Alias Dance Projects. Her choreographic work "Parliament" was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding new choreography in 2007. Originally from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Valerie studied dance with Sherry Walsh Academy and the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She worked with the Danny Grossman Dance Company in 1998-1999, and again in 2006 and 2008. Under the artistic direction of Christopher House, Valerie worked with Toronto Dance Theatre from1999-2009, as well as many independent choreographers. In 2007, she attended the New York Film Academy to study digital filmmaking, and in 2006 and 2008 she traveled to Vienna, Austria to attend the Impulstanz Dance Festival where she trained in hip hop, house, funk, breaking, b-boying, popping and locking. Working under the name VICE VERSA, she has designed sound for dance works by Matjash Mrozewski, Allison Cummings, Tina Fushell, Tanya Crowder, Hit and Run Productions and many of her own choreographies. She is creating a new dance work "Children of the Triangle" in collaboration with Luke Garwood and drummer Paul Shepherd, as well as performing in pieces by James Kudelka with Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie She is the drummer in the band "The Tight Ship".
