Over the years, Louisa Ferguson’s artistic path has taken many forms. She has studied music, dance, theatre, and numerous visual art disciplines, including a 15-year career as a contemporary glass artist. She also holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Saskatchewan.

Her MFA thesis explored artistic practice as an embodied response to the rolling landscape of the prairie pothole region where she lives, shaped through collaboration with place.

Louisa’s history with Dancing Sky Theatre began as a co-founder alongside Angus, serving as general manager for two decades and performing in various productions over the theatre’s 33-year history.

She is delighted to return now, stepping into the role of storyteller.

Kevin Moxley is an actor, educator, and writer with an undergraduate education from New York University, and an MFA in Theatre Performance from Florida Atlantic University. Kevin has performed locally in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Persephone Theatre), In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Lolabrickida Theatre) Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline (Live Five), Stag and Doe (Channel Theatre), and previously with Dancing Sky Theatre in Paper Wheat. He has also performed in play readings with SUM Theatre, and Burnt Thicket Theatre, and onboard the Wheatland Express Excursion Train. Raised in the southern Appalachia region of the United States, he is grateful to be living and working on Treaty 6 Territory, and making a home with his husband in Saskatoon. 

Aurora ter Heide is a singer-songwriter who writes songs that synthesize her keen observations of self and society with her enduring passion for mythological tales. She offers a rare combination of emotion, perception and wit, both lyrically and musically. She is overjoyed to be taking part in her second Fireside Stories.

A graduate of the Gulf Islands School of Performing Arts, Aurora has composed music across a wide range of genres, including classical, folk, punk, pop, rap, alt-rock, and indie, for solo projects, bands, stage productions, film soundtracks, and a cappella choirs. She has released two albums: Persephone, under the stage name Aurora Bella, and Little Darkness, an alternative rock album created with her band of the same name. She is looking forward to releasing her second solo album and an EP with her band within the next year. Her work has earned multiple SaskMusic Award nominations, and she was named North Sask Music Zine's 2024 Artist of the Year.

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Angus was born a long time ago in the magical hills in the South West of England. He grew up and went to school there and was a fairly normal English boy. When he was 15 years old, his Mum fell in love and remarried, and it was decided that the whole new family was going to move to Canada. Angus had never been to Canada, and he knew very little about it, but it all sounded like an exciting adventure. A house was bought in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which sounded very exotic and different. So, the first time he set foot in his new land was when he moved here. It was January 3rd 1978, at 1:30 in the morning. It was 35 below with a pretty serious wind. Angus had never felt anything like it before in his life.

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Once he was properly equipped, Angus started to explore the Canadian Prairies and slowly fell in love with them. Apart from one 4-year stint in Montreal where he met his wonderful wife Louisa, he has lived and worked in his new home, Saskatchewan ever since.

Angus is very proud that he has been able to make a living through the Arts – sharing stories with other people and making things.

Danica Lorer is delighted to be involved for the very first time with Dancing Sky Theatre. She has been a professional oral storyteller for more than 25 years, performing for audiences of all ages across Canada including in more than 100 Saskatchewan libraries. Danica has had short stories and poems published in Canadian literary journals and has presented hundreds of writing and storytelling workshops to folks from 0-103 years old. In the last two years she has been performing and writing music with her partner Jay Semko. Danica has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and SK Arts. She is the most recent recipient of the Saskatchewan Foundation For the Arts Colleen and Allan Bailey Memorial Endowment Fund Literary Award. She has been struck by lightning, a moose, a rogue semi-tire, vehicles, and the odd strange idea. Danica believes in the power of story, listening and telling.