Directors


Kim Harris-Enns Artistic Director	Kevin Enns Executive Secretary	Jamie Toth Technical Director

Kim Harris-Enns began her dance career in 1982 on scholarship as a company understudy with Kamloops Dance Umbrella. She studied tap, jazz, ballet and modern with Cherrill Andrews, Susan Hallett, and Erica Pinsky. In 1988, Kim received her BA in dance from Simon Fraser University. The four year program incorporated ballet training with Dianne Miller and Grant Strate, OC, and modern training with Santa Aloi and Barbara Bourget.

Kim has performed extensively throughout Vancouver and Kamloops. As artistic director and a founder of Akimbo Dance, she has worked on many projects, including the opening ceremonies of the BC Festival of the Performing Arts, and Intercon ‘95. In September 2000, she started up her own dance school, called, by a strange coincidence, Akimbo Dance Studios.

Kevin Enns brings a broad range of talents to Akimbo. Having learned to read before he was toilet-trained, he put his linguistic skills to use at an early age, forging official documents and writing essays for his less-gifted kindergarten classmates. His interest in recondite matters and a well-developed sense of self-worth led him eventually to the field of mathematics, in which he earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Manitoba.

Kevin can pilot a five-ton truck, a forklift, and a high-performance automobile with equal skill. He once almost killed a man with laughter, although in fairness he once almost died from laughter. He is an expert swordsman, at least the second-best classical guitarist in Kamloops, and can plan, prepare, and host large dinner parties with grace and wit.

When he is not working on Akimbo matters, he devotes his time to the study of the correct use of the subjunctive, and hopes one day to make a career of it. Failing that, he plans to get a haircut and a real job.

Jamie Toth has been with Akimbo as Technical Director and Lighting Designer since 1993. His schooling includes graduation from the National Theatre School of Canada, and he has over twelve years of live entertainment experience from New Brunswick to British Columbia, and most places in between. Theatre New Brunswick, the Edmonton Fringe Festival, WCTC, Alberta Theatre Projects, and UCC are just some of the venues he has worked, with darker and more mysterious forays into the underworlds of film, television, festivals, concerts, special events and conventions. But he always finds his way back to Akimbo, like a dog returning to his -- no, never mind. Just, say, like some lost puppy.

He is currently developing a new format of commerce over the internet with the BC Network, but still finds time to work in The Industry (as he likes to call it) and reverse-engineering alien spacecraft. Can't teach a new dog old tricks, after all.