Reena Almoneda Chang is a dance/movement artist, teacher, community and cultural worker, dance movement therapist, and practitioner of traditional Chinese massage & injury work. She has a BA in Political Science focusing on international relations and development from McGill University, a Master’s in Dance from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and completed the program in dance movement therapy at the National Centre for Dance Therapy at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (NCDT). She has also done training in body-based psychotherapy and completed a training program in dance for Parkinson’s with Parkinson en Mouvement. Her dance and movement training include ballet, modern, contemporary, various traditional and contemporary African dances (including Congolese, Gourmantché/Burkina Faso, Malian, Senegalese, Ivoirian, Ghanaian, Rwandese, and South African dances), flamenco, butoh, capoeira, tai chi, yoga, and Argentine tango. 

With a focus on the cultivation of personal and social growth, resilience, and transformation through body-based practices and movement art forms, she uses an interdisciplinary approach, blending different modalities, with a particular interest in the intersection between artistic, political, and healing work. For her, the body is a container for memory and experience, revealing, dialoguing, and engaging, within ourselves, with each other, and with the world around.