Cai Glover - Performer & Co-Producer

“What does it feel like to be in a creative and generative space while learning to build and to give trust? It feels confronting for what I am being asked to give and for what I am being asked to take. In this work and in this process I am learning not to immediately create and make an environment for myself but to imagine a place of cohabitation where safety and care allow for broad strokes of individuality.”

Cai Glover (he/him) is a Montreal-based dance artist, choreographer, and artistic director whose work foregrounds the poetics of movement, language, and embodied identity. He has been developing his creative practice for over 25 years, and for more than a decade worked as a performer, interpreter, and choreographer with Cas Public, contributing to multiple company creations before expanding his independent practice.

As the founder and artistic force behind A Fichu Turning, Glover explores how language and gesture might be transformed into an embodied movement vocabulary, using the dancing body to probe questions of meaning, perception, and social dynamics. His work investigates the politics of disability, Deaf culture, and sensory experience as sources of artistic poetics and identity.

A Deaf artist, hearing differently has shaped both his creative approach and aesthetic voice, giving rise to performances and research that unsettle conventional sensory hierarchies in dance. Over his career, he has worked with a wide range of collaborators and continues to present choreographic work that invites audiences into movement practices at the intersection of expression and inclusion.