Tin Gamboa is a dance artist and emerging writer who was born and raised in a place now commonly known as Manila, Philippines. She is currently living on the unceded and ancestral homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, now commonly known as Vancouver, Canada. With her Filipino blood rumbling through her tapping toes and dancing body, her bi-cultural lens informs her work in choreography and facilitation.

An artist and new mother, Tin is fascinated by the dances that exist in the day-to-day— intrigued by the ways that an arts practice bleeds into life, and vice versa. She has worked with artists in both Vancouver and Manila and has had the privilege of writing for Dance International Magazine, Dance Central, and Dance West. 

Tin completed her Masters of Fine Arts education at Simon Fraser University, where she was able to enrich her informal cultural research in the Philippines (2019-2020), with the support of the Canada Council. Tin’s focus has been on gestures and stories that reside in the body, seeing the body as the entry point to reflect on one’s position in place as well as past, present, and future.

Since her Koryolab 2023 residency with the Cultural Centre of the Philippines, she has been exploring a movement and sound practice that she likes to call dama (meaning “to sense” in Tagalog). This work has undergone three residencies so far, and is now still explored as a collective practice with the Community Dancers, at the Yaletown Roundhouse Artist Residency.