Crystal Finn-Dunn

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Crystal Star Finn-Dunn is a diverse, emerging dance artist. She has performed across Toronto in shows such as Ted Talks, the Pan-American Games, Nuit Blanche, Toronto’s Urban Dance Symposium (TUDS), Breakin’ Convention, MonstrARTity, The Garage Collective, and New Blue Dance Festival. Internationally, she has performed with Culture Shock Toronto (CSTO) in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, with Danny Fernandes on tour in China, and in New York City at Ladies of Hip Hop with flowHER House Collective. Her international TV performance debuted at the 8th Annual HUM Awards in July 2018. This past summer she was accepted to train in a research project in Vienna as part of Impulstanz contemporary dance festival with Mani Obeya. Crystal has over 20 years of training through recreational and competitive studio practice in the styles of ballet, tap, jazz, modern, contemporary, lyrical, acro, and musical theatre. Crystal is a graduate of York University with a BFA in Dance specializing in ballet and modern, and performance and choreography, presenting her contemporary choreography on various stages at York. She has presented her choreography at O.U.C.H., The Academy, Culture Shock’s International Showcase in Los Angeles and Ottawa, Future Shock’s Canadian Showcase, CSTO’s GLIMPSE, Ladies of Hip Hop, and dance film Downhearted Euphoria. Crystal’s classical and contemporary training has manifested into her practice of street styles hip hop, house, waacking, popping, and locking. In February 2018 she founded flowHER House Collective, a women-based street dance collective focused in the style of house dance. Crystal continues to foster her practice and creation through film, freestyle, choreography and performance, and develop her individuality through dance and travel. She has experience performing among a broad spectrum of roles with themes ranging from excitement or flirtatious girlfriend to deep and darker characters of horror and abuse.

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Experience with print ads, clothing campaigns, product shoots, online ads photo/video shoots, music videos, live tv, background work.

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Languages Spoken	English
Accents/Dialects	Canadian, English - General, English - Southwest England
Dance Styles	African dance styles, Asian dance styles, Ballet, Ballroom, Belly Dance, Bollywood, Breakdance, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Jazz, Latin American, Swing Dance, Tap
Additional Skills	Acting, Dance, Makeup, Modeling, Photography
Athletics	Badminton, Billiards, Bowling, Canoeing, Cycling, Ice Hockey, Ice Skating, Jump Rope, Kayaking, Ping Pong, Roller Skating, Rollerblading, Running, Skateboarding, Soccer, Swimming, Volleyball, Yoga