OPEN MArgaret Grenier Workshop
Workshop description:
Margaret Grenier will facilitate a movement-based workshop centered on contemporary Coastal Indigenous dance. Through fundamental Coastal dance training, exploratory work, improvisation, as well as sourcing through song and narrative, participants will engage in the shared experience of dance. All levels of dance experience, however the workshop is most catered to those with a dance background. Participants are asked to dress comfortably and wear moccasins or bare feet.
Margaret Grenier will facilitate a movement-based workshop centered on contemporary Coastal Indigenous dance. Through fundamental Coastal dance training, exploratory work, improvisation, as well as sourcing through song and narrative, participants will engage in the shared experience of dance. All levels of dance experience, however the workshop is most catered to those with a dance background. Participants are asked to dress comfortably and wear moccasins or bare feet.
Biography:
Margaret Grenier is of Gitxsan and Cree ancestry. She is the Executive and Artistic Director for the Dancers of Damelahamid. She has produced the Coastal Dance Festival since 2008. She choreographed Setting the Path (2004) and Sharing the Spirit(2007), which toured to New Zealand (2008) and 2010 World Expo in Shanghai China, and Visitors Who Never Left (2009). Margaret choreographed the multimedia productions Spirit Transforming (2012), Flicker (2016), and Mînowin (2019). Flickerpremiered at The Cultch and the Canada Dance Festival (2016). Flicker toured through La danse sur les routes du Québec(2017), was presented by Montréal, arts interculturels and Danse Danse (2017), Dance Victoria (2018), DanceWorks, Toronto (2018) and toured through Made in BC (2018). Mînowin premiered at the Mòshkamo Festival, National Arts Centre, Ottawa (2019) followed by a national tour through the CanDance network and was presented at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Margaret holds a M.A. from Simon Fraser University and a B.Sc. from McGill University. She has programmed with the Bill Reid Gallery and directed the HR MacMillan Space Centre’s production Sky Stories. She was a sessional instructor for Simon Fraser’s course Foundations in Aboriginal Education, Language, and Culture (2007) and at the Banff Centre’s Indigenous Dance Residency (2013). She received the Reveal Award in 2017. She serves on the board of the BC Alliance for Arts and Culture.
Margaret Grenier is of Gitxsan and Cree ancestry. She is the Executive and Artistic Director for the Dancers of Damelahamid. She has produced the Coastal Dance Festival since 2008. She choreographed Setting the Path (2004) and Sharing the Spirit(2007), which toured to New Zealand (2008) and 2010 World Expo in Shanghai China, and Visitors Who Never Left (2009). Margaret choreographed the multimedia productions Spirit Transforming (2012), Flicker (2016), and Mînowin (2019). Flickerpremiered at The Cultch and the Canada Dance Festival (2016). Flicker toured through La danse sur les routes du Québec(2017), was presented by Montréal, arts interculturels and Danse Danse (2017), Dance Victoria (2018), DanceWorks, Toronto (2018) and toured through Made in BC (2018). Mînowin premiered at the Mòshkamo Festival, National Arts Centre, Ottawa (2019) followed by a national tour through the CanDance network and was presented at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Margaret holds a M.A. from Simon Fraser University and a B.Sc. from McGill University. She has programmed with the Bill Reid Gallery and directed the HR MacMillan Space Centre’s production Sky Stories. She was a sessional instructor for Simon Fraser’s course Foundations in Aboriginal Education, Language, and Culture (2007) and at the Banff Centre’s Indigenous Dance Residency (2013). She received the Reveal Award in 2017. She serves on the board of the BC Alliance for Arts and Culture.