Kaia Mienna
About the Artist
Kaia Mienna (BFA Dance) is a dance artist based in Tiohti:áke/Montréal working as a rehearsal director, dancer, and stage manager. Originally from Northern Ontario, Kaia has over 10 years of dance training in ballet and a variety of commercial dance styles. After University, Kaia completed a rehearsal direction training program through the Canada Council of the Arts.
Today Kaia works with several Montreal dance companies and independent artists including, We All Fall Down Creations (WAFD), EbnFlōh, and Animals of Distinction (AOD). She has had the opportunity to travel to South Africa, Toronto, Rouyn Noranda, Sweden, Arizona, New York, and the UK working as a dancer, technical coordinator, and stage manager.
About the Project
Capital Erotica
Kaia Portner, Presented by Tangente
September 10th-13th, 2026
A fantastical illusion, the showgirl emerges from economic tensions and sensual exertion. In a performance where glamour and vulnerability intertwine, Capital Erotica explores the deconstruction of the codes of burlesque and go-go dancing, desire as a hybridized contemporary state, and femininity as a navigation system through the tension between intimacy and power. Reflecting on a practice based in Montréal’s nightlife, codified in historical archetypes, the cabaret and the DJ booth, this solo looks toward the personal and future implications of what it means to be a showgirl. Welcome to a world of metamorphosis where the body is a spectacle to be observed explicitly
