Critical Distance DIRECTORY Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan

Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan is an independent curator, writer, educator, and performance scholar working across contemporary art, performance, and public programming. Her practice engages relational, site-responsive, and movement-based formats, with a particular interest in how artistic and curatorial practices respond to lived, embodied, and collective experience.

She has curated and developed projects with organizations including FADO Performance Art Centre, the Toronto Performance Art Collective (7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art), Vtape, Balancing Act Canada, Hemispheric Encounters, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, and Blackwood Gallery. Her recent curatorial work includes projects engaging site-responsive performance, and public space across galleries, civic sites, and unconventional environments.

Alongside her curatorial work, Shalon maintains an active practice as a writer and public educator. Her writing has appeared in Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre Research in Canada, Performance Matters, C Magazine, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from York University and teaches at Dance Arts Institute (formerly the School of Toronto Dance Theatre).