Seika Boye

Seika Boye is a scholar, writer, educator, and artist whose practices revolve around dance and movement. She is an assistant professor and director of the Institute for Dance Studies at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. Seika curated the archival exhibition It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900–1970 (2018) and co-curated Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario (2019). She was an artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2018), a Toronto District School Board’s African Heritage Educators’ Network Arts Honoree (2019), and a 2020 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award (co-curator, Into the Light). Her publications have appeared in numerous academic journals and magazines. She is based in Toronto.