Logan Whyte

Logan Whyte is a queer, Latinx dancer and choreographer. He started dancing at the age of 7 at BOLDT Dance Studio in his hometown of Brockville, Ontario. In 2019, he was accepted into the Dance Program at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) and promptly moved to Toronto. He underwent rigorous training in ballet, contemporary, Graham, Limon, and Cuban modern, jazz, street styles, West African styles, and gaga. He worked with award-winning Toronto-based and Internationally-based choreographers, performing in a total of 7 shows and 8 pieces. Notably, 3 of those pieces were created in collaboration with Fall for Dance North. One of which, “a gathering”, by New York-based choreographers Bobbi-Jean Smith and Or Schraiber, was presented at the Fall for Dance North Festival 2020. Additionally, in 2023, in collaboration with TO Live, he performed in a remount of “Colossus” by Australian-based choreographer Stephanie Lake. His hard work and dedication to his studies earned him the Orly Watkins Award in 2021 and the Lipson Endowment Award for an Emerging Choreographer in 2023. In 2023, he completed the program and earned a BFA in Dance with Distinction. Post graduation, Logan completed the ProArteDanza Summer Intensive, worked with Dance: Made in Canada as a Dance Steward, performed in the Dance: Made in Canada Festival 2023, worked with The Citadel + Compagnie on the Dora Award winning remount of James Kudelka’s “The Man in Black”, and won first prize and a special award at the Dance Generation Festival in Ukraine with his dance short film “One of These Days”. His most recent professional solo work, “Until it Breaks me Down”, has been performed across Canada via Healthy Dancers Canada, NightShift presented by The Citadel + Compagnie and Fall for Dance North, and the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Logan has a passion for bringing light to topics such as mental health and the queer experience in his art practices. He hopes to use his platform as a dancer and a choreographer to educate the world on mental health and being queer.