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Created in the midst of a 2020 pandemic, Oshun Dance Studios was a vision brought to life to bring young female artists of all ethnicities together to find empowerment and to access outlets for creative expression through dance. ODS is a Black-owned dance company in Charlottetown, PEI, and focuses on the empowerment of women by nurturing creativity and confidence among women, particularly women of colour on the Island. Calypso Secrets will not only feature performers of varying backgrounds on stage but will also celebrate the cultural arts traditions of the Bahamas, bringing a refreshing Caribbean flavour from one island to another while promoting an inclusive, community-building environment in an effort to showcase the diverse talents of the Island’s youth and, ultimately, to bring joy to the community at large

02/13/2026

🌍 Move, groove, and celebrate culture this Black History Month across Prince Edward Island!

Join Reequal Smith for joyful, high-energy dance experiences where rhythm, heritage, and community come alive through Afro-Caribbean and Bahamian movement.

✨ Feb 13 – PD Day: Move & Dance!
Charlottetown Library Learning Centre Auditorium | 10:30–11:30 AM
Family-friendly • Discover dances from around the world

✨ Feb 27 – Free Afro-Caribbean Dance Workshop
Carrefour de l’Isle-Saint-Jean | 5:30–6:30 PM
Live music • Ages 8+ • Free childcare with registration
Register: www.carrefourisj.org

📚 Feb 28 – Summerside Library Dance Workshop 1:00 PM | Open level | All are welcome!
Bahamian Folk Dance Experience
Immerse yourself in a vibrant blend of African roots and European ballroom traditions. Learn flowing torso, pelvis, and arm movements—plus the joyful Quadrille, a beloved Bahamian celebration dance.

Bring your energy, your family, and your love for movement—let’s rise together through dance. 💛

❤️🖤💚

02/10/2026

Happy Black History Month 2026

I am so grateful for this opportunity, especially when I need it the most.

Thank you for community , thank you to This Town Is Small for offering this opportunity to me so that I can continue to put time into creating and continuously working towards being my whole self as an artists.

Thank you for supporting artists of colour and the stories that we continue to tell through our lenses.

2026 has brought some trials and setbacks but this is one step forward I am grateful for in my endeavours ❤️❤️❤️

01/22/2026

Adult Dance Conference HERE I COME!! Thank you for this amazing opportunity.

New styles are part of what makes our Adult Dance Conference so special. We’re excited to welcome Reequal Smith, bringing Jazz Funk and Bahamian Folk to this year’s lineup.

Reequal Smith is a multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, and visionary cultural leader. As the Founder and Artistic Director of Oshun Dance Studios in Prince Edward Island, Reequal draws deeply from her Bahamian roots to create work that rhythmically and spiritually bridges Caribbean traditions with Canadian contemporary movement. Her artistic practice is one of celebration and reclamation—evoking the pulse of island life while building spaces that honour the lived experiences of Black and Caribbean communities.

An alumna of Holland College’s School of Performing Arts, Reequal has over a decade of performance and choreographic experience across theatre, film, festivals, and self-produced works such as Calypso Secrets, Elysium, Unfold, and Caribbean Flamingo(premiered at Coastal Currents 2024). Her body of work includes such credits as Neptune Theatre, River Clyde Pageant, Kemi Craig’s ”Bearing Witness”, Washington Black, Breaking Circus, Robert Hengeveld “Where Phantoms Meet” and collaborations with artists like Liliona Quarmyne and Charles Campbell.

Beyond the studio, Reequal serves as Program and Events Coordinator for the Black Cultural Society of PEI and Administrator/Outreach Coordinator for the Canadian Women of Colour Leadership Network in Ottawa. She actively champions equity and representation in the arts, holding board positions with the Island Fringe Festival, Fusion Charlottetown, and Kinetic Studio in Halifax.

In 2025, Reequal was honoured with the Kerri Wynne MacLeod Women of Impact Award and the Diane Moore Creation Award by Live Art Dance for her commitment to equity, cultural celebration, and transformative storytelling through movement.

01/04/2026

New Year’s Resolution:

This year, let care be the commitment.
We move better when we’re cared for.
We move forward—together.

Apply now. The Compassion Fund pilot is available until March 2026.

Thank you to for this support and opportunity.

01/01/2026

✨ With Gratitude & Joy ✨

2025 Thank you for the unwavering and overflowing blessings.

Thank you to our community for your continued love, presence, and unwavering support. Oshun Dance Studios is deeply grateful to walk this journey alongside you. Because of you, we are able to keep sharing culture, honouring stories, and creating spaces where movement becomes a language of connection and belonging.

We remain committed to nurturing more opportunities for equity-seeking artists and to strengthening a vibrant, sustainable dance ecosystem here on the island—one that uplifts, empowers, and celebrates the many incredible dance artists who call this place home.

This is only the beginning. Thank you for believing in the work, the vision, and the power of dance to build community. 💛🌊

Welcoming 2026 with Open Arms ❤️❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽

11/30/2025

Join us at the Charlottetown Library Auditorium for the PEI premiere of Why We Dance, a joyful and inspiring documentary — and stay afterward for a community dance led by Reequal Smith of Oshun Dance Studio! All are welcome, and no dance experience is needed.

📅 Event Details

Date: Sunday, November 30, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
(Doors open at 1:30 PM)
Venue: Charlottetown Library Learning Center Auditorium
Address: 97 Queen Street, Charlottetown

🎟️ Tickets

Tickets are Pay What You Can with all proceeds graciously being donated to Women’s Network PEI.

Reserve your spot: https://whywedancepei.eventbrite.ca/

🎬 About the Film

Why We Dance explores how a diverse group of women rediscover joy, resilience, and community through dance. Set during the Pandemic, the film follows an online dance class led by Ketty Rosenfeld — a charismatic, compassionate Indonesian immigrant living in the U.S. As dancers invite friends, a virtual community forms, bringing together women from across the country. The project is truly grassroots, filmed by the dancers themselves.

At this PEI premiere, you’ll also have the chance to meet Academy Award–winning filmmaker Michal Goldman.

11/17/2025

🌿 The Compassion Fund: Supporting the Whole Artist

This season, we’re taking a meaningful step toward caring for dancers not just as performers, but as full human beings.

In rural and underserved communities, dancers often navigate physical strain, emotional stress, and caregiving responsibilities without the support they deserve—especially women and members of equity-seeking groups. The Compassion Fund was created with these dancers in mind.

Through this pilot initiative, artists can access direct support for:
✨ Mental health services
✨ Physiotherapy + recovery
✨ Childcare
✨ Transportation
✨ Adaptive + wellness care

Because a life in dance should never come at the cost of well-being.
We move better when we’re cared for.
We move forward—together.

This initiative welcomes and prioritizes support for women and femme-identifying dancers, and those who identify with equity-seeking groups, including:
• Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour (BIPOC)
• Parents or Caregivers
• Rural Residents
• Artists with Disabilities or Chronic Conditions

Artists from all dance pathways are invited to apply:
• Company Dancers
• Professional Artists
• Mid-Career
• Pre-Professional / Training Artists
• Student / Training Artists
• Senior/Veteran Artists
• Administrative / Production Support

The application process is fully confidential and allows artists to share their care needs with dignity. Funds will be distributed based on need and available resources from November 2025 – March 2026. All applications are reviewed directly by Artistic Director Reequal Smith.

If you have any questions, please reach out to info.oshundancepei@gmail.com.

Link to apply: https://forms.gle/dJD8LjVs6mGhAUmu9

This pilot is supported in part by Balancing Act Canada through the Level UP! Initiative, advocating for equity, accessibility, and meaningful support for artist parents and caregivers across the arts sector.

Together, we move with compassion. 🤎
Together, we support the whole artist.

11/03/2025

🥁 Drum roll please! 🥁 We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 PEI Arts Awards! 🏆

My heart is filled with so much gratitude to be nominated for such an Award. When I tell you it wasn’t just me but my beautiful PEI Community supporting and pushing me in this direction. I’m super grateful and even though I am my biggest critic, it really fills my heart to know I have so much amazing people in my corner. Thank you for believing in me.

Congrats to all finalists!! You all are amazing and when we don’t see it, let’s continue to push and support one another. The work that we do is not going unnoticed!

Love you all ❤️
The Artist of the Year Award Finalists:
Lisa Theriault
Reequal Smith
Inn Echo

Finalists and winners will be celebrated at the 2025 PEI Arts Awards ceremony happening at The Guild, in Charlottetown, on November 13.

A big thank you to our arts community for the abundance of nominations this year and to our Peer Selection Committee for their time and hard work! 🌟

10/06/2025

✨ Summer Recap: Flames of Culture & Community Connection ✨

It is so exciting to finally share this post with you all — one of the many beautiful community engagements Oshun Dance Studios in collaboration with took part in during SUMMER 2025! 🌞💃🏽

This past season was truly incredible — filled with creativity, laughter, and meaningful cultural exchange. 💛

During Circus Week , the young participants truly shined — testing their balance on beams, exploring circus-inspired crafts and games, and embracing the joy of movement. The highlight of the week was a powerful and mesmerizing Bahamian Fire Dance Presentation by , which brought the warmth, rhythm, and storytelling of the islands right to our community! 🔥🇧🇸

Through Oshun special presentation, “Flames of Culture: The Story of Fire Dancing in The Bahamas,” Reequal had the honour of sharing the deep roots and artistry behind this breathtaking tradition — paying tribute to the legendary pioneers Queen Becky, the Queen of Fire Dance, and The Chipmans, masters of the Goombay drum whose rhythms have long inspired the heart of Bahamian performance.

Oshun were so grateful for the opportunity to share this beautiful piece of Bahamian culture in 5 different locations across PEI — connecting our community through dance, heritage, and the universal language of rhythm. 🌍✨

Thank you to all of the CHANCES Family Centres:
-Kensington
-Stratford
-Cornwall
-O’Leary
-Charlottetown

09/12/2025

Do you want to get back into your bodies or try a new dance style ? This is the place for you.

✨ Adult Contemporary & Jazz Funk Dance Classes Start Tonight! ✨

We are thrilled to welcome back our amazing Reequal Smith as our Adult Contemporary Dance instructor — and this year, she’ll also be teaching Jazz Funk! 💃

We can’t wait to welcome both returning and new faces to the studio. There’s still time to join — just bring your passion to learn. Don’t worry if you’re brand new — whether you’re a beginner or have prior dance experience, you’ll discover the freedom of movement in a supportive, welcoming space.

What’s Contemporary? A versatile style blending ballet, modern, and jazz — expressive, emotional, and fluid, Contemporary allows you to tell stories through movement.

What’s Jazz Funk? A fun, high-energy fusion of jazz technique and hip hop grooves — bold, sharp, and stylish with plenty of attitude and personality.

📅 Tuesdays 7:00 – 8:00 PM → Contemporary 8:00 – 9:00 PM → Jazz Funk

📍 Starts September 9th 📩 For more info: info@havenwooddance.ca 🌐 Visit: havenwooddance.ca
✨ Join us — move, express, and feel the energy! ✨

07/29/2025

Are you ready to feel the heat this weekend !!

“FIRESTORM” from the Oshun Fire Collective will be bringing the heat and their devil sticks along with them. Get ready for some fun and fire tricks!!

This event is part of Pride PEI’s Rainbow Road Party, sponsored by and curated in collaboration with Lacuna PEI!

Make sure to join us on August 2nd from 4 PM – 11 PM to enjoy amazing local performers and vendors!”

Make sure to check out full schedule to catch all the details and performances.

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