Sasha Ivanochko
dancer

Sasha Ivanochko is a choreographer, pedagogue and arts worker with over 30 years experience in the field of contemporary dance. A School of Toronto Dance Theatre graduate, she earned her MFA Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University. Her artistic research and creations have been supported through two Chalmers Family Fellowships, a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate scholarship; and she received the 2020 John Hobday Award for arts management. She founded and internationally toured her ad hoc company, Ivanochko in company for fifteen years. From 2018 for three years, she was Artistic Director of Dancers’ Studio West. In August of 2021, she became the Artistic Director and Pedagogical Director of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Sasha’s service to the community includes three years as Chair of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists-East, and a year chairing the Canadian Dance Assembly’s Independent Artist Standing Council.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Sasha was invited by Peggy to perform Brute for the 2005 Choreographer’s Trust. and danced in move as part of the duration performance event interior with moving figures at the Art Gallery of Ontario.