Sze-Yang Ade-Lam

Sze-Yang Ade-Lam is a queer asian nonbinary dancer, choreographer, martial artist, actor, advocate and community developer. Sze-Yang shares stories for love, liberation, representation and empowerment, as an independent artist, and as part of ILL NANA/DiverseCity Dance Company. Since 2011, Sze-Yang has created more accessible affirming dance education and performance opportunities for QT2SBIPOC’s and their adjacent communities, advocated for change in the arts, and is the force behind the Dora Mavor Moore Awards shift to gender neutral categories. Lookout for Sze-Yang in Age of Samurai on Netflix, Peggy Baker’s Her Body As Words, and their work in New Monuments on CBC Gem. IG: @seeyinandyang.

Photo credit: Dahlia Katz.