Ottawa and Montreal-based choreographer Crazy Smooth has been enthusiastically selected by an esteemed panel of jurors to receive Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s 2020 Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award. Crazy Smooth, one of Canada’s top street dancers, has been instrumental in preserving and growing this art form around the world. He is Founder and Artistic Director of Bboyizm, an award-winning street dance company.
As recipient of this award, Crazy Smooth will receive a cash prize of $14,000 CAD along with two residencies at Banff Centre to develop and launch a national tour of In My Body. A new full-length work, In My Body is an intensely athletic investigation of the evolution of self and the effects of aging on street dancers.