Dancing Tree Studio
About Us
Born to Create
We believe everyone is born to create.
Before we learned rules, expectations, and responsibilities, we imagined, played, explored, danced, and told stories. Creativity is not a gift reserved for a talented few—it is part of what makes us human. Along life's journey, many of us lose touch with that creative self. Yet it never truly disappears. It waits quietly to be remembered.
Art is not a luxury. It is a way of making meaning, expressing emotion, building community, and celebrating life. The creative journey is not about becoming someone else. It is about becoming more fully yourself.
Welcome your return.
Dancing Tree Studio
Rooted in the original Dancing Tree musical, Dancing Tree Studio grew from a simple belief: everyone is born to create.
Over years of filmmaking, dance, theatre, travel, and artistic collaboration, we discovered that creativity does not flourish in isolation. It grows through movement, curiosity, friendship, shared experiences, and meaningful human connection. Art is not separate from life — it is one of the ways we learn to live more fully.
Dancing Tree Studio is a welcoming home where dance, storytelling, music, theatre, film, and community come together. Through classes, workshops, rehearsals, performances, and creative collaborations, we nurture healthy bodies, creative minds, expressive voices, and lasting relationships.
The musical Dancing Tree remains our roots. The Studio is the living tree that continues to grow—branching into new ideas, new friendships, new artistic journeys, and new possibilities.
Whether you come to move, to create, to perform, or simply to reconnect with yourself and others, there is a place for you here. Welcome to the studio -- a home for you.
Tree Family
Every tree begins with roots, but it grows through connection.
At Dancing Tree Studio, we call our community the Tree Family—a place where people of all cultures, generations, professions, and artistic backgrounds come together to learn, create, and grow.
Some arrive through dance, music, theatre, film, or storytelling. Others simply come searching for movement, friendship, or a creative life. What unites us is the belief that creativity flourishes through meaningful human connection.
Here, we learn from one another, rehearse together, share stories, celebrate successes, and support each other through every season.
In a world that often feels rushed and increasingly digital, the Tree Family offers something timeless: a place to belong. A place where art and life grow together.
Whether you stay for a class, a rehearsal, a performance, or many seasons to come, we hope you'll find a branch of the tree that feels like home.
Welcome to the Tree Family.
Tree Knows
Media
Founded in Toronto in 2019 by filmmaker, writer, producer, and performer June Wang, Tree Knows Media Canada Inc.is an independent production company dedicated to original storytelling across film, theatre, dance, and interdisciplinary performance.
Its work includes the award-winning documentary A Tango with Chino Perico (2020), the award-winning teaser film Dancing Tree (2023), the feature documentary When Figs Ripen (2025), and short experimental film Becoming (2026).
For nearly a decade, the company has been developing Dancing Tree - an original feature film and musical project that has become the creative foundation for many of its artistic initiatives, including Dancing Tree Studio.
Tree Knows Media is the creative home of June Wang's original works, producing, developing, and stewarding the company's artistic projects and intellectual property.
The Founder
June Wang
June Wang is a Toronto-based award-winning filmmaker, dancer, performer, writer, and interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges film, theatre, dance, storytelling, music, and embodied performance.
After earning a Master's degree in Cinema Studies from York University, she built an international career in filmmaking, directing the feature films Forever Fireworks (2008) and Perfect Baby (2012), and later serving as co-producer and script consultant on the internationally acclaimed feature film Wolf Totem (2015).
In 2013, June discovered Argentine tango in Buenos Aires—a turning point that transformed both her artistic practice and her understanding of creativity. Since then, she has continued her training in tango, ballet, contemporary dance, acting, and performance, developing an interdisciplinary artistic language where movement, story, and human connection become one.
She is the founder of Tree Knows Media Canada Inc. and the creator of Dancing Tree—an original artistic vision that has grown into award-winning films, an evolving musical, and Dancing Tree Studio. Her recent works include A Tango with Chino Perico (2020), Dancing Tree (2023), When Figs Ripen (2025), and Becoming (2026).
June believes creativity is a fundamental human capacity. Through Dancing Tree Studio, she hopes to inspire people of all backgrounds of all ages to reconnect with their creativity, discover authentic expression, and experience the transformative power of art, movement, and meaningful human connection.