Reequal Smith is the Founder and Artistic Director of Oshun Dance Studios. A dance artist originally from the Bahamas, now based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, she is an alumni of Holland College’s School of Performing Arts. She majored in Dance Performance and holds a BA in Marketing from her hometown. 

She currently continues her dancing career as an independent artist, choreographer, and educator in Charlottetown, taking part in festivals, events, collaborations, and recreational arts in schools locally and regionally such as; Arts Smarts Project, Diversecity Festival, Roma Festival, River Clyde Pageant, Kings Playhouse, Stratford Fall Festival, Social Distancing Festival, and projects based in Halifax. She has had the opportunity to perform and be mentored under Liliona Quarmyne and Sussanne Chui in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Reequal is also the events coordinator for The Black Cultural Society of PEI for seasonal projects, and has been the Volunteer Coordinator / Visual Artists for Art in the Open for two years as well as the Administrator / Outreach Coordinator for Canadian Women of Colour Leadership Network in Ottawa. Reequal loves to be a part of the community and arts industry where she is currently on the boards of both The Island Fringe Festival and Fusion Charlottetown in PEI.

She continues to express her art by workshopping and training with artists, fusing cultural patterns together as one, creating something beautiful, and she wishes to bring more excitement and flavour to the PEI community.