Growth Never Stops

Saskia Maria Barros Raparanta is a Toronto-born movement specialist and ACTRA member with twenty years on her feet — the last ten of them as a working professional. She appears in M. Night Shyamalan's Trap (Warner Bros), Disney's Sneakerella and the full Zombies film trilogy, and Netflix's Grand Army — building a body of work that spans three of the largest studios in entertainment.

On the music video side, she has worked with choreographer Tanisha Scott on Belly, with Director X on Killy, and with Canadian artists including Francesco Yates, Jade Eagleson, and Sage Harris. Her live and brand work runs from Sony Music's N.E.R.D. album release and the Adidas Pride Float to the National Bank Open and the Blake McGrath promo tour.

Trained across hip-hop, Afro, dance hall, contemporary, jazz, and ballet — and acting at LB Acting Studio — Raparanta brings the same vocabulary into the studio as a teacher and as the founder of SSS — Sweet, Selective, Sassy, her Toronto-based heels training program and dance collective. She is represented by daCosta Talent Management (Toronto) and Bloc LA.