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DANCE ARTIST, CHOREOGRAPHER, TEACHER-BASED IN MONTREAL , QC
SUMMARY PROFILE
26 year performing career as a professional dancer, both nationally and internationally
14 years experience choreographing, producing, directing and leading projects that have received both national and international funding, national and international residencies
14 years teaching experience to professional dancers, dance students and opera singers
Additional experience as a rehearsal director for ballet, contemporary dance and Opera.
Fully certified Classical Pilates instructor (Mat, Reformer, Tower, Advanced Cadillac, chair, barrels, spine corrector)
Citizen of the Manitoba Metis Federation
CHOREOGRAPHY
2019 Salle Rouge/ Wilder ‘Kiwaapamitinaawaaw/ I see you all’ (work in progress)
2018 Place des Arts/ Cinqueme Salle/ Quartiers Danses ‘8 Wishbones’
2017 Place des Arts/ Cinqueme Salle/ Quartiers Danses ‘Absorbed in Silence’
2016 Place des Arts/ Cinqueme Salle/ Quartiers Danses ‘This is Nothing New’
2016 Sala Rosa/ Short and Sweet/ Wants and Needs Danse ‘Time’
2015 Place des Arts/ Cinqueme Salle/ Quartiers Danses ‘Or’- Solo
2010 Regent Theatre ‘Sposin’- Full evening multi-disciplinary performance
2007 Takkeloftet- Royal Danish Theatre ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ (Opera)
2006 Dansecenen /Dansolution ‘Falling Forward’
2006 Ny Scene- Royal Danish Theatre ‘Cosi Fan Tutti’ (Opera)
2005 Royal Danish Opera studio ‘Manon Lescault, “Maskarade’ (Opera) excerpts
CAREER HISTORY as a dancer since 1993 and member of the following companies:
2011-2012 Danse-Cité (QC) director Daniel Souliers
2008-2012 Louise Bédard Danse (QC)
2007-2010 Système D/Dominique Porte (QC)
2005-2007 Living Creatures (DK) director: Camilla Stage
2003-2006 Flying Pig Productions (UK/DK) director: Helen Saunders
2002-2003 Wilda/Copenhagen Performance House (DK) director: Tim Feldmann
1998-2002 Danish Dance Theatre (DK) director: Warren Spears/Tim Rushton
1997-1998 Ontario Ballet Theatre (CA)
1994-1997 Gothenburg Ballet (SE) director: Robert North/ Ulf Gadd
1993-1994 Royal Winnipeg Ballet (CA) director: John Meehan/ William Whitener
EDUCATION
2019 Concordia University Intermedia program (undergraduate level studies)
1989-1993 The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School's Professional Division
Graduated with Distinction in 1993
1990-1992 The University of Winnipeg Collegiate
Graduated, High School Certificate, Grade 12
1983-1989 The School of Dance (Ottawa, ON)
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
2019 Dancers Transition Resource Centre- retraining and parallel career grant- $7500
2013 Canada Council for the Arts- Creation and research grant- $25,000
2012 Dancers Transition Resource Centre Career Exploration Grant- $1000
2011 Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Quebec- Production grant - $34,000
2011 Canada Council for the Arts- Commissioning of Canadian Compositions-$5200
2011 Danish Arts Council- Danish International Visiting Artists Program-77,000 DKK
2010 Canada Council for the Arts-Production grant-$18,000
2009 Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Quebec - Professional development grant $6000
2006 Toyota Foundation (DK) – 35,000 DKK
2006 Augustinius Foundation (DK)- 25,000 DKK
2004 Danish Actors Unions Blankbåndsmidlerne Scholarship (DK)- 20,000 DKK
2003 Augustinius Foundation (DK) $20,000
1993 Arnold Spohr Award (Winnipeg, MB)- $2000
1992 Arnold Spohr Award (Winnipeg, MB)- $2850
1989 Duke and Duchess of York Award (Ottawa, ON)- $500
1989-1993 Young Performers Bursary Scholarship Fund (Ottawa, ON)-$55,000 over 4 years
RESIDENCIES
2019 Ottawa Dance Directive for research on ‘Kiwaapamitinaawaaw/ I see you all’
2018 Compagnie Marie Chouinard ‘8 Wishbones’
2018 CCOV center for creation ‘8 Wishbones’
2017 School of Dance for creation ‘8 Wishbones’
2017 Darling Foundry ‘Absorbed in Silence’
2017 Zeugma Collectif de Folklore Urbain ‘Absorbed in Silence’
2017 Danse a la Carte residency program ‘Absorbed in Silence’
2016 Compagnie Marie Chouinard ‘This is Nothing New’
2015 Choreographic Centre- Ballet Divertimento ‘This is Nothing New’
2015 Zeugma Collectif de Folklore Urbain ‘Or’
2015 Studio Bizz Residency ‘Or’
2013 Segal Centre for the Arts ‘the NOES collective’
2011 Dansens Hus ‘Straight Right’
TEACHING
2016- present Studio Set
2009-2011 Quinte Ballet School of Canada, Belleville (ON)
2007-2008 Skånes Dance Theatre (SE)
2006-2007 The Royal Danish Ballet School (DK)
2005-2008 The Royal Danish Opera Academy (DK)
2004-2008 Danish Dance Theatre (DK)
2004-2008 Dansens Hus (DK)
2004-2005 Oure College of Sports (DK)
CREATION/PERFORMACE/RESEARCH: DETAILED WORKING PERIOD:
1993-present
Dance work experience in Montreal 2007-present
2019-2020 Barbara Diabo ‘My Urban Nature’
2011-2013 Collectif NOES/ chor: Dominique Porte ‘To Go Somewhere’
2011-2012 Danse-Cité’s ‘Traces Interpretes “Straight Right”
2010-2011 Maternity leave
2008-2012 Louise Bédard Danse, ‘Enfin vous zestes’
2009 Louise Bédard Danse research
2008-2010 Système D/ Dominique Porte ‘Ulysses Nous et les sirens’
2009-2010 Thea Patterson/Peter Trotzmer, ‘Rhyming Couplets’
2008-2009 Système D/ Dominique Porte, ‘Plus seule qu'en solo’
2007 Dean Makarenko research
Dance work experience in Copenhagen, Denmark 2000-2007
2007 Anette Wiesner/Anatomic Space “Let the show begin”
2006 Camilla Stage/Living Creatures “Restless Moon”
2006 Research/creation grant Augustinius Fund ‘Falling Forward’
2006 Camilla Stage/Living Creatures “I wish I were your bird/the passenger”
2005 Pernille Garde/ Dansescenen “Soevnloes”
2005 Helen Saunders/Flying Pig Productions/Cikada Ensemble ‘Kalv festival for new music/dance installation
2005 Camilla Stage/Living Creatures “SurReal Life”
2004 Helen Saunders/Flying Pig Productions“Pocket full of lies”
2004 Oestre Gasvaerk Teater ‘Casino Moonlight”
2004 Camilla Stage/Living Creatures “The secret fire”
2003 Research/Travel grant from Augustinius fund (DK) Australian Dance Theatre
2003 Helen Saunders/Flying Pig Productions “Nursery Nightmare”
2003 Helen Saunders/Flying Pig Productions “momentlynowhere
2002 Anette Abildgaard/ Balcon ”V.H’s fantomer”
2002 Flemming Flindt/Ostre Gasvaerk Teater “Triumph of Death”
2001 Rolf Heim/ Paul Auster/ Tim Feldmann/ Kanonhallen “Hide and Seek”
2000 Ebbe Knudzon/ Café Teatret “Siden’
DANCE COMPANY WORK, Full-time 1994- 2002
Danced for choreographers/Danish Dance Theatre (1998-2002):
Tim Rushton (DK), Jorma Uotinen (FI), Jens Bjerregaard, Jo Strømgren (NO), Tim Feldmann, Charlotte Boye-Christiansen (US), Sofie Christiansen (DK),
Warren Spears (DK), Sabine Dahrendorf/ Alfonso Ordonez/ Danat Danza (ES)
Danced for choreographers/ Goteborgs Dans Kompagni (1994-1997):
Robert North (US), Robert Cohan (UK), Birgit Cullberg (SE) , Ulf Gadd (SE) , Ivo Cramer (SE), Ersin Aycan (TR/SE), Trinidad Bermudez (US/SE)
Danced the following ballets at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (1993-1994):
Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, La Bayadère, Giselle
ADDITIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCE
Member of Le Regroupement Québécois de la Danse
Memer of ELAN
Member of Native Montreal
Member of The Dancers Transition Resource Centre
Member of the Canadian Dance Alliance
Founding member of the dance collective ‘NOES’
Co-Artistic director “Straight right” Danse-Cité’s ‘Traces Interpretes’
Rehearsal director for Pixel Projects & Copenhagen Performance House
Certified Pilates Instructor (Mat, Reformer, Tower, Advanced Cadillac, chair, barrels, spine corrector) PSC/ Therese Desrosiers
LANGUAGES
English (Mother tongue)
French, Danish (Intermediate level)
Michif (Beginner level)