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Ame Henderson (Tkaronto) is an artist working with dance and choreography. With a practice that spans publication, performance and exhibition, her work proposes experiential modes of being together. With the collective company Public Recordings she produced and toured over a dozen ensemble works from 2003–15 and she was a collaborator at Toronto Dance Theatre from 2013–19. In Toronto, her work has been shared in collaboration with AGYU, Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, Gallery TPW, Dancemakers, Theatre Centre and Harbourfront Centre, and with The Blackwood in the context of I stood before the source and Running with Concepts: The Choreographic Edition. Henderson is currently working on the final dispatch in a triptych of duets co-created and performed with Matija Ferlin, and is a collaborator in new performance projects with Katie Ward, Aleesa Cohene and Evan Webber. She has facilitated choreographic practice in a variety of contexts including University of British Columbia – Okanagan, University of Calgary, Toronto Dance Theatre, Toronto Community Love-In and Banff Centre. Henderson holds a graduate degree in Choreography from the Amsterdam School for the Arts, is a Gestalt Psychotherapist (RP Q) in private practice, and is a facilitator of the Resilience Toolkit, a trauma-and social justice-informed framework to support holistic wellness and self-agency.