Founded in 1999, Turbo Bonz Dance seeks a performance language through raw physical movement, gesture, text, technology, space and the human body. Artistic Director Jenn Goodwin's style is witty, sensuous and charged with physical emotion and energy. The company investigates contemporary popular culture married with personal stories and creates not only dance, but space- an environment in which dance and theatre collide, crash and beautifully explode.

Turbo Bonz Dance has performed to enthusiastic (sometimes screaming) audiences in Canada, U.S, and Europe. Committed to fusing high and low art, dance/theatre and multi media, the work tells stories through movement, to express, provoke and to engage the audience and the performers.

Jenn and Turbo Bonz are going to spend the fall in Brussels as part of a residency at Theatre L'L for Festival VOL.

Turbo Bonz Dance Projects has been graciously supported by:

Jenn Goodwin and her theatrical, street-smart style moved back to Toronto in 1997 after spending eight years in Montreal where she received her BFA in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University. While in Montreal Goodwin worked with Tammy Forsythe, Natalie Morin, Sarah Doucet, Roberta Cooper and Heidi Latsky, among others. Presently Jenn is Artistic Director, dancer and choreographer for Turbo Bonz Dance Projects. From theatres to streets, to parks to clubs, her work has been received enthusiastically by audiences in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, New York City and Amsterdam. In Toronto she has danced with Corpus, Hari Krishnan, Zero Gravity Circus, Eryn Dace Trudell, Justine Chambers and WOMB Dance Company. She has also worked as a dance and movement teacher, arts administrator, dance programmer, fitness instructor, actor, writer, director and go-go dancer. She is presently also 1/3 of Channel 3. A dance/media collective with Justine Chambers and Heidi Strauss. Triple Decker dance is a workshop series of Channel 3 which strives to address the needs of the pre-professional dance artist. For more information or to have Channel 3 at your school email us at channel3@canada.com

Sarah Doucet is from Winnipeg where she trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. She moved to Montreal after escaping a near death accident and went to L'admmi and Concordia University for dance. She has since danced with Tammy Forsythe, Jenn Goodwin and also presently works and tours internationally with Compagnie de Brun.

Justine Chambers is a Toronto-based independent dance artist who completed her post secondary education at the Ryerson Theatre School in 1996. From 1996-1999 she was a senior dancer with Desrosiers Dance Theatre with whom she toured both nationally and internationally and roles created for her in over 5 works. Chambers has worked with Canadian choreographers: Sonya Biernath, Karen Duplessis, Jenn Goodwin, Mitch Kirsch, Lucie Mongrain, Yvonne Ng, Heidi Strauss, Vicky St. Denys, Julia Sasso and Debbie Wilson; and international choreographers: Rosaeja Barslund (Denmark), David Hurwith (USA), Kota Yamazaki (Japan). Justine is a freelance instructor of contemporary dance and ballet. She has performed for film and television, and has been featured in music videos for Sarah Craig and David Bowie. Chambers has created work for: The Ryerson Theatre School Acting Department, The Greeks; Compleat Fool Theatre, The Self; The Music Gallery; untitled for dancer and dj; Series 8:08, untitled; Series 8:08 Season Finale 2001, Treading Edges. Chambers has recently gone into collaboration with choreographer/dancer Jenn Goodwin and Turbo Bonz Dance Projects.

Nicola Pantin is an original member of PBJ Dance Project & has performed with some of the most renowned choreographers in North America including Bill T. Jones, Mitch Kirsh, Roger Sinha, Laurie Raymond, Jenn Goodwin and Gabby Kamino. Her theatre work includes performances with One Yellow Rabbit and Bald Ego Theatre. Her on camera work includes music videos, television and film. She was seen in Exhibit A for the Discovery Channel and the new Blues Brothers 2000 film. As well as being one of the most sought after dance instructors in Canada, she is rapidly gaining a reputation as an original and inspired choreographer. Most recently her choreography and performance in The 3ƒ Cabaret and during Summer works 2001 was critically acclaimed in Toronto.

Sharon DiGenova has toured extensively (since 1981) throughout North and south America, Europe and in Asia, the Far East, Mexico, Cuba etc. stage-managing, tech directing, and/ or creating lighting designs for companies that include The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Desrosier Dance Theatre, Ronnie Burkett's Theatre of Marionettes and for the past three years she has toured internationally as the Technical/lighting director & stagemanager with The Holy Body Tattoo. She has worked with more than 100 independent choreographers - and in Dace Trudell. Together they ran Damn Straight from 1993-98. Sharon has just returned to Toronto after premiering The Holy Body Tattoo's new production, CIRCA. She resumes touring in Europe with HBT in March 2000.