Bio
MD is a queer, gender-fluid, white settler of Italian and Danish descent, based in Tkaronto. They show up in the community as integrative somatic therapist, performance artist and doula. As a somatic careworker and registered social worker, they take a liberatory and justice-oriented approach that honors each person's embodied wisdom and strengths. In their private practice, MD offers holistic support for experiential and relational healing - weaving somatic practices, expressive arts, movement, and sound meditation - grounded through a lens of cultural humility. MD also works as a gender affirming counsellor at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, supporting trans and gender diverse youth, and their families navigating gender questioning and transition. MD enjoys supporting people in reconnecting with their bodies, to find a sense of presence, steadiness, and creative expression as pathways toward resilience and a more livable future.
As a performance artist, MD weaves improvisational dance, physical theatre, drag, burlesque, and clowning to explore themes of satire, madness, and sensuality. Their performances are fiercely character-driven and playful, marked by fearless physicality and commanding presence. Blurring the lines between the absurd and the erotic, the ridiculous and the regal, they embody the archetypes of the fool and the fawn as portals to the sacred and the profane. MD’s work is deeply inspired by the New Romantics movement and Commedia dell’Arte. Whether perched at a bar in Elizabethan ruffles or strutting across the stage in clown couture, MD's performances
invite audiences to laugh, lust, and lean into the deliciously strange.
MD performance/dance practice and creation projects has taken them to Bahrain, Banff, Berlin, Montreal, New York City, Sao Paulo, Stratford, and Vienna. They have collaborated and worked with various artists and companies including Alyssa Martin (Rock Bottom, Toronto), Amanda Acorn (Toronto), Austin Fagan (Berlin), Alvin Collantes (Berlin), Dock11**** (Toronto), FAWN Chamber Creative (Toronto), Ismael Ivo (Vienna + Sao Paulo), Kuo-Han Chen Sànchez (Berlin), Lake Studio (Berlin), and Toronto Love-In, among others.
MD holds a BFA in Performance Dance from TMU, a BA in Psychology from Laurentian University and a MSW from the University of Toronto. MD has completed training through Esprit En Mouvement (Montreal) in somatic movement education of Body-Mind Centering®, and is working towards completing their certification in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. MD is a trained Birth Doula (DONA International), and has been working and practicing as a yoga and sound meditation practitioner for over 10 years.
Check out MD's Psychology Today profile here!
