Jacinte Armstrong is a Halifax-based dancer and choreographer. She trained at Halifax Dance, and went on to study at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. She was the recipient of the inaugural Diane Moore Creation Scholarship, awarded by Live Art Dance Productions in 2007. Jacinte is a co-founder of both Verve Mwendo Dance Company and SiNS (Sometimes In Nova Scotia) dance, and has worked with Cory Bowles, Veronique MacKenzie, Ruth-Ellen Kroll Jackson, Susanne Chui, Lisa Phinney Langley, Gwen Noah, Rachel Franco, Barbara Mavro Thalassitis (Brussels), and Halifax’s Zuppa Theatre Company. She made her first film about Pilates (which she loves), through AFCOOP’s One Minute Film scholarship, and a dance video (entitled Techno Sloth), through the Centre For Art Tapes. Recent performances with SiNS include the Canadian premiere of Schreibstuck by Thomas Lehmen in Vancouver’s Dancing on the Edge Fest, and Hungry Link the Wolf by Daelik, in both Halifax and Vancouver. She also performed in Sara Coffin’s Taking Your Experience For Mine, which premiered in Vancouver in the spring of 2011. Her most recent creation, Falling Off the Page, is a video installation and duet based on Japanese Calligraphy, performed with Susanne Chui.

Jacinte is also a Pilates teacher and a member of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists.