The Illegibility of This World
Co-Commission: The Theatre Centre (Body Geometry), STDT (PTP, level 4)
Music: PAN SONIC, John Kameel Farah
Premiere: 6 December, 2001; Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto

MAA
Commission: LADMMI (PTP, level 3)
Music: PAN SONIC
Lighting: Marc Parent
Premiere: 11 December, 2001; Theatre La Chapelle, Montreal

It was like this.
Commission: Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers
Music: Frederic Mompou
Lighting: Hugh Conacher
Costumes: Alana Shewshuck
Premiere: 7 November, 2001; Gas Station Theatre, Winnipeg

Hooplah!
Commission: School of Toronto Dance Theatre (Professional Training Program)
Music: Calexico, James Brown, Chemical Brothers, Liquid, Snap
Lighting: Ron Snippe
Premiere: 3 May, 2001; Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto

Not Two, Not One
Commission: The Debutante Ball (in association with The Theatre Centre)
Music: James Tenney
Costumes: Lori Trez Endes
Premiere: 2 May, 2001; Dancemakers Studio, Toronto

The Epic Period
Commission: Factory Theatre
Written by: Sean Dixon
Directed by: Brian Quirt
Music: Justin Haynes
Set and Lighting: Steve Lucas
Costumes: Jennifer Triemstra
Premiere: 27 April, 2001; Factory Theatre, Toronto

It was like this.
Commission: Toronto Dance Theatre
Music: Frederic Mompou
Lighting: Ron Snippe
Costumes: Lori Trez Endes
Premiere: 26 March, 2001; Betty Oliphant Theatre, Toronto

2000

RIPPLE
Re-mount/Commission: School of Toronto Dance Theatre (Professional Training Program)
(see, 1995)

DUST(film)
Produced and Directed by: Gariné Torossian
Premiere: October, 2000; Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video, Toronto

untitled 0.1
Commission: School of Toronto Dance Theatre (Summer Intensive)
Music: James Tenney
Premiere: 28 July, 2000; Winchester Street Theatre,
Toronto

Sundrunk
Commission: Cheap Queers
(created and performed with Marnie Woodrow)
Text: Marnie Woodrow
Premiere: 23 June, 2000; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto

DUST
Commission: Four Chambers Dance Project
Music: James Tenney, Rainer Wiens
Lighting: David Morrison
Costumes: Heather MacCrimmon
Premiere: 17 June, 2000; La Nouvelle Scene, Canada Dance Festival, Ottawa

QUENCH
Commission: School of Toronto Dance Theatre (Professional Training Program)
Music: MATMOS
Lighting: Ron Snippe
Costumes: Lori Trez Endes
Premiere: 9 May, 2000; Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto

Wednesday
Commission: lbs/sq” Productions (Artistic Director, Gerry Trentham)
Premiere: 29 April, 2000; Season in a Day, Toronto

untitled
Commission: du Maurier World Stage
(created and performed with Fides Krucker)
Music: Rogers and Hart
Premiere: 15 April, 2000; Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

The Whirlpool
Commission: Tarragon Theatre, Nightswimming
Adapted and Directed by: Brian Quirt (novel by Jane Urquhart))
Music: Justin Haynes
Lighting: Bonnie Beecher
Set and Costumes: Dany Lyne
Premiere: 1 March, 2000; Tarragon Theatre, Toronto

1999

MAA (II)
Commission: Dancemakers
Music: PAN SONIC, Annette Peacock
Lighting: Ron Snippe
Costumes: Anna Romanovska
Premiere: 16 November, 1999; Premiere Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (Dancemakers' 25th Anniversary Season)

MAA(I)
Commission: Pan American New Creations Project (a co-production of Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers [Canada], Delfos Danza Contemporanea [Mexico]and Neo Labos [U.S.A.] in association with the 1999 Pan American Games)
Music: PAN SONIC, Annette Peacock
Lighting: Hugh Conacher
Costumes: Anna Romanovska
Premiere: August, 1999; Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre, Winnipeg

SPORTING LIFE (film)
Produced by : BRAVO!fact, Blackwatch, Trish McKell
Directed by : Michael Downing
Premiere: October, 1999; Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video, Toronto

Jaded
Commission: FROTH Productions
Adapted and Directed: Banuta Rubess (from Salomé by Oscar Wilde)
Music: Nic Gotham
Premiere (workshop production): 1999; Nightwood Theatre

exitwound
Commission: Mark Shaub
Music: François Houle, Benoit Delbeq
Set: Jean-Pierre Perreault
Lighting:Lucie Bazzo
Premiere: 24 February, 1999; Centre Culturel Calixa-Lavallée, Montreal

The Life Before This (feature film)
Directed by: Gerard Cicchoritti
Written by: Semi Chellas
Starring: Stephen Rea, Sarrah Polley, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pantoliano
Premiere: September 1999; Toronto International Film Festival

1998

Boy Meets Girl (feature film)
Produced by: Arto-Pelli Motion Pictures
Directed by: Gerard Cicchoritti
Starring: Sean Astin, Kate Nelligan, Kevin MacDonald, EmilyHampshire
Premiere: September, 1998; Toronto International Film Festival

Kicking the Flavour
Commission: Unionville High School for the Performing Arts
Music: Geoffrey Bennett and TTG Music Lab
Premiere: 15 May,1998; Markham Theatre, Unionville

Train to Florida
Commission: School of Toronto Dance Theatre (Professional Training Program)
Music: Ry Cooder
Lighting: Ron Snippe
Costumes: Lori Trez Endes
Premiere: 1998; Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto

Schmerzen
Music: Schubert, Schumann, Wagner
Lighting: Jean Philippe Trépanier
Costumes: Heather MacCrimmon
Premiere: 1998, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
(re-mount/commission:1999; Dancing on the Edge, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver)

Sweat Revenge
(Created and performed with Darryl Tracy)
Commission: du Maurier World Stage
Music: Miles Davis
Premiere:1998; Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

Blind Date
(created and performed with Fides Krucker)
Commission: The Theatre Centre
Music: Rogers and Hart
Premiere:1998; Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto

Season in a Day
Commission: lbs/sq" Productions
Premiere:1998; Toronto

In Dreams
Commission: Dancers for Life
Music: Khatchaturian (performed live by the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra)
Lighting: Ron Snippe
Costumes: Victoria Wallace
Premiere:1998; Humming Bird Centre, Toronto
(re-mount/commission:1998;
Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, Gas Station Theatre)

The Theory and Practice of Rivers (re-mount)
Commission: Conduit Dance Company
Premiere:1998; Dancemakers Studio, Toronto
(see, 1992)

1997

Song of Songs
Commission: Dancemakers/The Toronto Consort
Lighting: Ron Snippe
Costumes: Victoria Wallace
Premiere: December, 1998; du Maurier Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

1996

Mettle Rooms
Commission: School of Toronto Dance Theatre (Professional Training Program)
Text: William Faulkner
Lighting:Ron Snippe
Premiere: 11 December, 1996; Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto

*SPORTING LIFE
Co-Commission: Canada Dance Festival, DanceWorks, Peterborough New Dance, CanDance Network
Sound Design: Julia Sasso, Eric Cadesky
Lighting: David Morrison
Costumes: Heather MacCrimmon
Premiere: 13 June, 1996; National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada
(re-mount/commission: 1997; DanceWorks' Mainstage Series, du Maurier Theatre Centre, Toronto)

*nominated for two Dora Mavor Moore Awards: Outstanding Choreography, Outstanding Performance

1995

Ripple
Commission: School of Toronto Dance Theatre (Professional Training Program)
Music:Philip Glass
Lighting: Ron Snippe
Costumes: Evelyn Bastien
Premiere: 13 December, 1995; Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto
(re-mount/commission:1996; STDT Winter Concert and Dancers' Transition Centre Gala, Elgin-Wintergarden Theatre, Toronto)

1993

MAXINE
(created and performed with Laurie Hood and Tom Walmsley)
Commission: Art Space, Peterborough
Text: Tom Walmsley
Music: Laurie Hood
Lighting: David Morrison
Costume: Evelyn Bastien
Premiere:1993; Art Space, Peterborough, Canada
(re-mount/commission:1994, Canada Dance Festival, Ottawa; fFIDA, Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto; DanceWorks Mainstage Series, duMaurier Theatre Centre, Toronto)

Symphony of Emotions
Commission: National Ballet of Canada (Creating Dances in the Schools Project)
Music: Paul Humphrey
Premiere: 16 May, 1993; O'Keefe Centre, Toronto

1992

The Theory and Practice of Rivers
Sound Design: Julia Sasso, David Keyes
Lighting: David Morrison
Costumes:Helena Paolozzi
Premiere:1992; Dancemakers Studio, Toronto
(re-mount/commission:1992, Dancemakers, Brock University, St. Catherines; fFIDA, Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto; 1993, Art Space, Peterborough;1998, Conduit Dance Company, Dancemakers' Studio, Toronto)

Such Sweet Sorrow
Commission: Contemporary Civic Ballet
Music: Mozart
Premiere: 1992; Seaholm Auditorium, Detroit, USA
(re-mount: 2000; Contemporary Civic Ballet, Detroit)

1991

Pulses
Commission: National Ballet of Canada (Creating Dances in the Schools Project)
Music: Gail Young
Set and Costumes: Reinhard Reitzenstein
Premiere: 1991; Niagara District Secondary School, Virgil, Canada
Timed Existence
Music: John Lang
Set and Costumes: Dianna and Gerard Smith
Premiere:1991; Peterborough, Canada

The Outer Dark
Music: Nick Cave, J.L. Dickenson, Scientists
Premiere:1991; Dancemakers' Studio, Toronto
(re-mount/commission: Dancing on the Edge, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada)

1990

dissolve/reveal(II)
Commission: Floorplay Dance Company (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Music: J.S. Bach, Giorgi Ligetti
Premiere:1990; Rockwell Hall, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A.
(re-mount/commission: Contemporary Civic Ballet, Detroit, U.S.A.; Toronto Arts Week, Damn Straight Studio, Toronto)

DUNK
Commission: Dancemakers
Music: DJ X (Adrien King)
Premiere:1990; Dancemakers' Studio, Toronto

Lost Weekend
Commission: The Primaries
Music: Bernard Hermann
Premiere:1990; Broadway Cinema Gallery, Hamilton, Canada

Visions of Utopia
Commission: Dancemakers/Niagara Distrct Secondary School
Premiere:1990; Niagara Falls, Canada

1989

Private Spaces
Commission: Dancemakers/Bowmanville High School
Music: Jay Godsmark
Premiere:1989; Bowmanville High School, Bowmanville, Canada

1988

The Shepherdess
Music: Edvard Grieg
Premiere:1988; Dancemakers' Studio
(re-mount/commission:1989; Contemporary Civic Ballet, Detroit, U.S.A.)

Eroding
Commission: Dreaming of Beauty
Music: Allen Davis
Premiere: 1988; Music Gallery, Toronto

1987

Picnic
Music: Edvard Grieg
Premiere:1987; Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto
1986
dissolve/reveal(I)
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere:1986; Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto

1984

Rome is Burning
Commission: Tulpa
Music: Tulpa
Premiere:1984; Ontario College of Art , Toronto
1976
Canadian Gymnastics Association, Toronto

1974

The Mikado
Commission: St. Bede's Players (Detroit, U.S.A.)
Music: Gilbert and Sullivan
Premiere: 1974; Detroit, U.S.A.
1972-1974
Rose Marie Floyd Studio of Dance, Detroit, U.S.A.


PERFORMING EXPERIENCE

1984- 2000

Dancemakers
Dancer, Assistant Artistic Director(1988-2000)
Repertoire: Conrad Alexandrowicz, Carol Anderson, Serge Bennathan, Anna Blewchamp, Bill Coleman, Christopher House, Bill James, James Kudelka, Yvonne Couts, Lar Lubovitch, Doug Varone, Jean-Pierre Perreault and others
Tours: Canada, U.S.A., England, Wales, Scotland, France, Austria, Germany, Morrocco, Greece, Yugoslavia

1984-current

Independent
Repertoire: Conrad Alexandrowicz, Carol Anderson, Murray Darroch, Pamela Grundy, Bill James, Claudia Moore, Tom Stroud, David Earle, Julia Sasso, and others

1983

Pavlychenko Studio
Toronto

1976

Ballet Ys of Canada
Toronto

1974-1976

York University
Toronto

1969-1974

Contemporary Civic Ballet
Detroit, U.S.A.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
(Contemporary Dance Techniques, Pilates Mat Work, Creative Process, Rehearsal Direction)

1984-Current (Regular Guest Faculty)

National Ballet School, School of Toronto Dance Theatre (Professional Training Program), School of Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers (Professional Training Program), Teachers' Collective, Canada Dance Festival, Dancing on the Edge Summer Intensive (Vancouver), Breaking Ground Summer Intensive (Toronto) and others.

Independent
1984-current (Guest Faculty, Master Classes)
U.C.L.A., U.C. Santa Barbara, U.C. Freemont,Cornell

1988-2000

Principal Company Teacher: Dancemakers

1984-current (Guest Faculty, Master Classes)
U.C.L.A., U.C. Santa Barbara, U.C. Freemont, Cornell University, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, Simon Fraser University, York University, Canadian Children's Dance Theatre, DV8, Floorplay Dance Company, Contemporary Civic Ballet, and others

1972-1974
Rose Marie Floyd Studio of Dance

AWARDS

Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Laidlaw Foundation, Chalmers Performing Arts Training Fund, York University (bursary), Royal Winnipeg Ballet (scholarship), Paul Taylor Dance Company (scholarship), Joffrey Ballet (scholarship), Harkness Ballet (scholarship), Cecchetti Council of America (scholarship)

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